Game language guides
Play any game in the language you're learning
Game by game: how hard its language really is, and — for games with no current English — how to read the live version as you play. We scan real screens and give honest answers, not guesses. Playto reads any game on your PC and shows what the text means in real time.
Learn Japanese with these games
Monster Hunter Wilds
モンスターハンターワイルズ · Capcom
Menus sit around N3, but the quest letters hide N1 bureaucrat words like 当該 and 保全 — and one word decides whether you pass or fail.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
隻狼: SHADOWS DIE TWICE · FromSoftware
The most kanji-dense game here: 88 words on the item menus, just 3 katakana loanwords, and a huge N1 + beyond-JLPT tail. Even item names like 形代 and 傷薬瓢箪 sit off the JLPT scale.
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How the difficulty breakdowns work
For the Japanese difficulty pages, each game gets scanned with the same JLPT wordlist Playto uses in the app. Every word on a real screen is matched to a level; kanji compounds that fall outside the JLPT lists are counted honestly as "beyond JLPT" rather than hidden. Two verdicts, because games split cleanly: the menus stay low, the story and flavour text climb.
The point isn't to rank games as "easy" or "hard." It's to show what you'd actually be reading — so you can pick a game that sits just above your level, which is where a language grows fastest. The "play in English" guides cover a different case: games whose current version has no built-in English at all, and how to read them live.
Read any game as you play it
Playto reads your game screen in real time, shows what the text means, and saves the words you meet for review. A free demo is on Steam.