Girl’s War Z is primarily an idle combat game.  Your gun-totin cuties line up on one side of a barricade, and wave after wave of crazed flesh-eating zombies rush in while your army blows them away with an assortment of guns and special attacks.  When a little lady runs out of bullets, they run away to safety. A stage ends when either your entire team has headed back to the dorm, or the zombies crush the barrier.

The players kawaii army consists of a barracks of 30 girls, 6 of which are the Advance Group and enter the battle as front-line combatants.  Up to 6 additional students form the Backup Group and come to the frontline as a replacement when one of the initial Advance Group run out of ammo.  Each student has a special active skill, passive skills, a weapon proficiency, and equipment and accessories.

Combat is idle except for the use of each student’s special attack, which the player can click manually to deploy strategically, or set to automatic usage.  Skills with multiple uses have cooldowns attached. Several game modes are available, but they all share the same idle combat.

Outside combat, your school can be upgraded for perks, you can interact with your chibi lolis on the school yard (including things like watching them skip rope), and the story is told through Instant Messages with your students.

There is no PvP mode per se, but schools can compete for overall progress (eg, how many waves you’ve cleared) .  This, however, is cumulative (current leaders have over 30,000) waves, so if you want to try to compete, good luck catching up to people who have been playing the game for months already.

See a gameplay video clip here: