DEAD OR SCHOOL

Underground dwelling girl Hisako is aiming for the surface in a zombie infested Tokyo. Hack and slash RPG! Obtain weapons and gear from enemies, and customize your skill tree to create your own unique and powerful a character!

DEAD OR SCHOOL is a female protagonist, anime and action game developed and published by Studio Nanafushi.
Released on June 03rd 2019 is available only on Windows in 4 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Russian.

It has received 2,754 reviews of which 2,324 were positive and 430 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.39€ on Steam and has a 60% discount.

The Steam community has classified DEAD OR SCHOOL into these genres:

Female Protagonist Anime Action RPG Zombies Side Scroller Hack and Slash Indie Metroidvania 2D JRPG Singleplayer Cute Horror Visual Novel Difficult

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows10, 8, 7
Processor: Amd A10-8750
Graphics: Radeon R7
Storage: 6 GB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

This game is absolutely awesome! The gameplay is both satisfying and rewarding, I love the 2D style, cutscenes with anime art style are gorgeous, characters are amazing (Hisako!!!!!!) and the soundtrack is great, definitely a great game that's for sure! ;)

Oct. 2024

A fun game so far. A lot harder than I expected. Wait for a sale, but def pick it up.

Aug. 2024

Metro 2033 + japanese nonsense + metroidvania = Dead or School The animations are cheap, characters looks like they're made of cardboard but the gameplay works and it's challenging enough to push you into grinding & training to get better gear and skill up yourself along with the protagonist. Anyway for the overall quality of the game and the lenght if you like metroidvania and anime this will be a good purchase.

July 2024

The game doesn't take itself that seriously given the premise and the way the characters behave, and it's fun metrodivania-esque experience about a girl living underground 80 years after a zombie apocalypse and her quest to reach the surface and find the mythical "school" her grandmother told her about, a place where you can hang out with friends, eat good food and have fun. The gameplay is fun, even if simplistic and often janky. My only compaint is that the dfficulty spikes were too pronounced and you go from killing enemies in one blow and losing negligible amounts of HP on a level to having to grind a lot the next one because enemies can take a lot of damage and they deal massive damage too.

May 2024

Despite the community-placed tags, there is no sexual content. Instead, there are just some shots of fanservice, and the "uniform break" mechanic which plays a little animation where your character gets her clothes ripped. No actual seggs, no actual tentacle goodness. Even after clearing the game with 100% everything. No tiddy, no vagoo, no kinky time, just a lot of guns and suggestive shots. The game kinda reminds me of Metal Slug, minus the theatrical bravado and "cool" factor, and a heavier focus on Japan and your character's weirdly-obsessive desire to go to school. Most of the game has you running, jumping, and dodging through waves of "mutants" while gathering money and "tokens" to purchase and upgrade your gear. You cycle through three weapon types throughout the game, and each type has enough variants to cater to different playstyles, which I appreciated. There is not a lot of depth in this game. Most of the nuance of it is through the upgrading of weapons, as there is a "modification" system that is basically a gacha for passive abilities you can attach to a weapon. This then requires you to grind out enemies which might be the biggest turn-off for a lot of people, especially with how janky the combat may feel if you came from more polished platformers with a heavier focus on combat flow (e.g. Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, etc.). A lot of the "endgame" is mostly just clearing the Steam achievements, with the hardest ones requiring you to reach a certain amount of a stat, as those require you to gacha for "modifications" a LOT of times. You can also freely opt to use a memory editor and just hack yourself 9999 tokens and save yourself the headache once you've reached that point, and just want the completion flex. It's not a terribly challenging game. Most of the difficulty stems from minigames that are hampered by the weird camera not working with the 3D environments, and having to grind for better gear at the start, though once you reach mid-game you're more or less set with a specific playstyle that's suited for effective screen-clearing. The game does flip the script on you every couple of fights where it'll pit you in a situation where some weapon types are utterly useless (or at least terribly outmatched), forcing you to lose and swap out to a different loadout, and I found that quite fun (though they did not do this a lot). The story, while not the biggest selling point, was mildly amusing. The main girl (Hisako) who has lived underground for years, now wants to go to school on the surface (which is now overrun by mutants) after hearing amazing stories about it from her grandma, so she decides to just go and fight her way to the top. Throughout the game there are insane leaps in logic and common sense, but for a game focusing on cool action with anime girls with swords and guns, it's definitely par for the course. Some lines of dialogue and plot points will definitely have you wondering how the world works, as most of the cast seem to think the entire world is set in Japan, and that weapons made during World War 2 were apparently "superior" to weapons made after it. Wild stuff. They also tease some stuff about the past which they never touch upon after mentioning it, making me wonder if those were setups for a prequel game. The game's a decent 7/10. I wouldn't recommend it for people who hate repetitive grinding, but for those who just want a head-empty kinda game that focuses on big-number-get-bigger with the occasional puzzle-solving and weird boss fights, it's an easy sell. The devs clearly had fun making this, and I had fun playing it too. *edit: typos

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Studio Nanafushi

Publisher

Studio Nanafushi

Release 03 Jun 2019

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