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2018 · Spike Chunsoft · Adventure · Post-apocalyptic

Zanki Zero: Last Beginning

PlayStation console exclusive

Explore the ruins, dungeons, and islands in this post-apocalyptic world through the POV of eight protagonists as they fight for survival and search for meaning in their never-ending cycles of life and death.

Released: 2018
Platforms: PlayStation 4 PlayStation Vita Windows
Genres: Adventure Post-apocalyptic Role-playing Survival
Developers: Spike Chunsoft
Publishers: Spike Chunsoft
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Fantasy Science fiction Survival Drama
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB M ACB MA 15+
Languages: Chinese (Traditional), English, Japanese
Time to beat: 26hmain story91hcompletionist

About

Zanki Zero: Last Beginning is a dungeon crawling role-playing video game developed by Spike Chunsoft and Lancarse and published by Spike Chunsoft. It was released for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in Japan in July 2018, and PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows worldwide in April 2019.

The story is set on island ruins after the destruction of the Earth, leaving behind eight people. Each chapter of the game focuses on a different character, which the player will be controlling. The player can fight enemies throughout the game, most of which being animals, which rewards the player with items upon defeat. The game also features survival game elements, with players having to manage a character's stamina, stress, and bladder needs.

›Story

God created the world in seven days. It only took one day for humans to destroy the world. until yesterday. We do not yet know the broken world and the reasons left behind there.

An earth where ruins drift about. Buildings, houses, light posts. Cars, traffic lights, asphalt... Modern civilization was destroyed, becoming nothing more than debris wading in the sea.

New ruins drift one after the other before the protagonist, who lives on one of those decaying islands.

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Reception

Zanki Zero received "mixed or average" reviews, according to the review aggregator Metacritic.

The game's PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita versions were the fourth and seventh best selling games of the week during their debut week in Japan, selling 15,541 and 9,111 copies, respectively; the PlayStation 4 version sold another 4,164 copies during its second week, bringing total physical Japanese sales of the game to at least 28,816. The PC version was among the best-selling new releases of the month on Steam.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
Platform	Released	Regions
PlayStation Vita	5 July 2018	Japan
PlayStation 4	5 July 2018	Japan · North America 9 April 2019 · Europe 10 April 2019
Windows	9 April 2019	North America · Europe 10 April 2019