Shonen Idle Z
Zakos Games · 2016 · Free to Play, Incremental, 2D, Singleplayer, Anime
PC
Mixed64% · 11 📉 Recent reviews down 44%
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About Shonen Idle Z
✦ AI summary
Create your own manga hero and train them to master over 45 martial techniques while battling 400 monsters and their fearsome bosses across an expanding world. Unlock new abilities, collect clothing and yokai allies, and take on story missions—all playable offline with constant new content on the way.
Do you like Anime and Manga? Would you like to be the main character of your own story? With Shonen Idle Z you can create your own character and be the hero! Train hard, increase your martial skills and advance through the world getting rid of the evil Kurowashi and his army of monsters.
We are still working actively on the game and there are a lot of things to come.
More companions to come! With new ways of getting help!
New systems to improve your character.
A new kind of collectible.
new zones.
and more!
Features
- Character creation: Select your gender, hairstyle, eyes, nose, mouth, hair color and eye color and you are ready to go! (you can select black eyebrows if you are a classic manga lover).
- Trainings: As you grow stronger you will get more powerful techniques! Master them to improve their performance and get even stronger! over 45 techniques will unlock as you grow stronger.
- Collectibles: As you advance through the map you'll find new clothing and befriend yokais to help you out!
- Missions: Achieve milestones to earn rewards and bonuses!
- Monsters: 400 different monsters to combat as you advance through the map!
- Bosses: Beat a boss in every zone to set it free!
- Party: Companions to hire and ease your journey to free the world from evildoers.
- Offline mode
- And more to come!...
Upcoming
We are still working actively on the game and there are a lot of things to come.
More companions to come! With new ways of getting help!
New systems to improve your character.
A new kind of collectible.
new zones.
and more!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀8 found this helpful
Shonen Idle Z is a fun, anime-inspired idle RPG that offers addictive progression through auto-battles and character upgrades. The game's vibrant art style and humorous tone add charm, though its repetitive mechanics and reliance on grinding may not appeal to everyone. It's a light, casual experience for anime fans. Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)3 found this helpful
Nice game2 found this helpful
Games are sacred absurdities—tiny temples where we ritualistically grind our way toward godhood, only to smash the whole thing and start over wiser, hungrier, and slightly more delusional. Shonen Idle Z understands this better than most. It doesn’t just wear its Dragon Ball Z cosplay on its sleeve; it drags you straight into the shonen manga gutter and makes you live the fantasy of becoming the ultimate protagonist through the slowest, most meditative form of existential violence possible: pure idling. You create your spiky-haired hero, pick a ridiculous fighting style, and then… you watch. Enemies line up like cannon fodder in a Saturday morning cartoon. Health bars drain in glorious pixelated slow motion while your character spams ki blasts, dodges, and special moves on cooldown. The genius is how little you actually need to do. This isn’t frantic clicking; it’s desktop enlightenment. Leave it running, tab out, come back, and your little manga avatar has punched his way through another zone while you were pretending to be a responsible adult. The art nails that glorious late-80s/early-90s pulp aesthetic—bold lines, vibrant colors, the kind of sprite work that makes you nostalgic…2 found this helpful
played this when i was like 6 removed off steam store and doesnt even work
It is the year 2025. Due to alterations in the program files and how compatibility settings do not seem to work on Windows 11 I cannot endorse this game. If you can figure out how to change the compatibility to be operational then congratulations! You can play a truly ancient specimen of the idle genre that ate up thousands of my hours as you can see.
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