About This Game

Zhiqiu is a Windows desktop companion centered on English and Japanese vocabulary study. She stays on the desktop and responds while you learn, review, or take a break. Pet interaction, care activities, and mini-games are companion features built around a consistent study routine rather than replacements for it.

Core study features

• Two built-in default collections: English Study and JLPT Japanese Study, plus imports for your own decks and cards.

• FSRS scheduling for new cards and due reviews, with visible daily new-card, review, and overall progress.

• Choose a collection, stage, or individual deck as the active scope and continue from the previous session.

• Study meanings, examples, and pronunciation; rate memory strength and create a target-date study plan.

A customizable desktop companion

• Replace character artwork, motion states, interaction lines, and bound audio to create your own cute desktop pet.

• Share and subscribe to manifest-validated character content through Steam Workshop.

• Petting, dragging, care activities, music, and mini-games provide lightweight breaks between study sessions.

Base-game voice and AI content

The base game plays pre-recorded voice lines and does not generate text or speech using generative AI during gameplay. Mini-game recap text is assembled from authored lines according to game events. Some character images, animation variants, and fixed voice recordings were created with AI tools during development and are included as pre-generated assets.

Real-time AI voice generation is not included in the base game. It requires separately installed voice-runtime and voice-model DLCs.

Steam Workshop and user content

Steam Workshop supports sharing and subscribing to user-created character appearances, interaction lines, and local voice models. Uploaders must have the rights needed to share their content and follow Steam Community and Workshop rules. Inappropriate items can be reported through their Steam Workshop pages.

Workshop extensions require separate installation, activation, and configuration. The base game's vocabulary study, desktop interactions, and scripted mini-games do not require them.

The game supports Windows 64-bit only.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some character images, animation variants, and fixed voice recordings were created with AI tools during development and are included as pre-generated assets. The base game plays pre-recorded audio and does not generate text or speech using generative AI during gameplay. Real-time AI voice generation is not included in the base game; it requires separately installed voice-runtime and voice-model DLCs.