Japanese Vocabulary and Kanji Games for Kids

Through YouTube I discovered a game called たのしくおもしろく漢検小学生. Unfortunately it was only released for the Nintendo 3DS. What are other games like this released for modern consoles?

I’ve bought もじぴったんアンコ-ル, but I am not confident about my vocabulary to play it yet.

Are there other good Japanese games for kids to build their vocabulary and kanji knowledge?

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Keep in mind that games (and other content) for native kids will assume that you can understand the spoken language to a large degree and will therefore not hesitate to throw all sorts of not-so-trivial vocab and grammar at you as long as it’s written phonetically.

I actually find some of the stuff aimed at kids harder for me to understand than your average novel, because novels use a normal amount of kanji and adult-oriented vocab.

At any rate there are kanji training games on the Nintendo Switch and many other platforms. For instance:

(I don’t endorse this particular game, it just came up first in a random search for Switch kanji practice).

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