School Girl/Zombie Hunter (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

School Girl/Zombie Hunter

"Let's see, Zombies? Schoolgirls? Guns? Wooden swords? And set in a high school? This all seems dead familiar. What's going on here?! From the people who brought you Onechanbara,comes a new, upcoming title!…

45 12 January 2017

What School Girl/Zombie Hunter is

School Girl/Zombie Hunter is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Tamsoft and released in 2017. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"Let's see, Zombies? Schoolgirls? Guns? Wooden swords? And set in a high school? This all seems dead familiar. What's going on here?! From the people who brought you Onechanbara,comes a new, upcoming title! School Girl/Zombie Hunter follows the story of five girls caught up in a zombie outbreak (obviously). Trapped within what was once a prestigious school, the girls take up arms as they shoot and bash their way through the zombie hordes. Now how are a bunch of schoolgirls going to survivor being attacked by zombies you might ask? Well here's the thing, this isn't just any old school. Along side the literary arts they teach military arts as well, and these girls are packing some serious…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Oneechanbara series

School Girl/Zombie Hunter is the 12th of 13 entries we hold in the Oneechanbara series. It arrived a year after Onechanbara Z2: Chaos - Banana Split Limited Edition. The next entry was Onee Chanbara Origin in 2019. Its critic score of 45 is 9 points below the series average of 54. The highest-rated entry is Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad at 70.

See all 13 Oneechanbara games in release order →

How it was received

School Girl/Zombie Hunter holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 26 points below the year average.

What it launched against

School Girl/Zombie Hunter launched on 12 January 2017, within three weeks of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+.

Official trailer