Fifteen trading cards are now available on Steam from playing Shujinkou. We hope you enjoy collecting these trading cards filled with AWESOME illustrations from the game! Come check it out below:
Outside of that, we also have badges and 10 emoticons implemented. Try to collect them!
Guess what? There are also 10 backgrounds to nab too! Which one is your favorite?
Ah, and finally… STEAM AVATARS! Lots of them are here, so feel free to swap between some awesome avatars of the dozens of characters from Shujinkou!
Okay, we got a little bit excited there.
Did we mention that Shujinkou is back on sale?
Now’s a great time to dip, especially with how hot it has been around the globe (especially here in Japan! 💦)!
We’ll provide a little update on things we’re working on regarding Shujinkou:
- The next major update, v1.46, will integrate working Leaderboards into the game. It’ll be time to see how your minigame scores and various other stats compare to other players around the world 😉. We’re aiming to get this out before the sale ends, so keep an eye out!
- Our trademark reached its final “Registered” state! We got a nice letter from the US Patent & Trademark Office, so that was super exciting to see ⭐️!
- A major surprise regarding Shujinkou will be announced in a couple weeks. However, there are still a couple hundred hours of work to do in the mean time, so we’ll be working hard on that. 👌
- Regarding the next title in the trilogy, Shujinkou 2, you can read about its progress through our recent BitSummit and Kyoto CMEX coverage, but more concrete details will be reserved for later.
- Like each and every other update & patch released over the last 16+ months, these are all released for free for everyone—we have you to thank for supporting us, an up & coming young video game studio aiming to turn Shujinkou into a strong, global franchise.
- We will continue to support Shujinkou with updates, improvements, and new features as our fans and team bring up suggestions and more to work with.
If you’ve made it down here, why not take a moment to catch up on recent Shujinkou news?
- Keynote @ GAME AiCON Seoul (June 2026) – Read Here – Founder Julian Rice spoke about language learning innovation in video games, Shujinkou, and how language can be interestingly integrated into games without taking away from the fun, using Korean and Arabic as examples.
- BitSummit 2026 Sponsorship (May 2026) – Read Here – Check out our collaboration with Matsushita Asuto, a game planner for Persona 5, to create a free one shot manga of Shujinkou, as well as notes on the Shujinkou 2 prototype, all sorts of goodies, and what it was like sponsoring the biggest indie show in Japan! The manga is now available on Amazon, Hulu, DMM, and more!
- Collaboration with Pomeranian University (May 2026) – Read Here – We sponsored a Japanese culture event held at the university for learners of Japanese and fans & otaku of Japanese culture!
- Lecture about Shujinkou at Waseda University (April 2026) – Read Here – Founder Julian Rice gave a lecture at one of Japan’s most prestigious universities about Shujinkou and language-learning-based world-building while ensuring educational aspects and elements do not break core JRPG gameplay aspects.
- Shujinkou Music at GDC 2026 Concert (March 2026) – Read Here – Themes from Shujinkou were performed at Austin Wintory‘s Game Developer Conference – Festival of Gaming Concert Medley alongside titles like Hollow Knight: Silksong, Ghost of Yotei, Indiana Jones, DOOM, and more!
❤️ As always, thank you!
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Team @ Rice Games