# Zankyo: Horror TRPG Gamebook — Summon Echoes. Live till dawn.

> Summon Echoes. Live till dawn. (iPhone/iPad app by AKIHIRO WADA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zankyo-horror-trpg-gamebook/id6821845472 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [AKIHIRO WADA](https://appshunter.io/developer/6818520379)
- Category: Games
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 24 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese
- Released: 2026-10-16
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Zankyo?

Roll the dice, spend your sanity, and survive the night. Zankyo is a text-based horror tabletop RPG you can play alone or pass around one iPhone with friends.
On supported devices, an on-device AI Keeper narrates each scene, so no two nights read quite the same. The AI runs entirely on your iPhone.

[Six stories]
- The Sinking Bell Tower: a letter arrives from a village that vanished twenty years ago. The sender's name is yours.
- The Absent Child: in a school set for demolition, someone still takes attendance in an empty classroom.
- The Inn With No Vacancy: the guest register already has your names in it.
- The Ticket Home: a return ticket that hasn't passed the gate in thirty years.
- The Sixth-Floor Light: a five-story apartment block with six floors of lights.
- The Wheel That Never Stops: twenty years after the park closed, one rider still hasn't gotten off.
Every story has multiple endings. Your choices, and your luck, decide where you end up.

[How to play]
- Tap the choices on screen to explore.
- Search, Listen, Hide, Strength: each skill has a percentage you roll against.
- Fail, and you lose sanity. At zero, that investigator can no longer act.
- Summon an Echo, a heroic spirit, to walk beside you and help your checks. It costs sanity. Call on it too often and it will swallow you.
- Battles are command-based. Allies can hold you together with prayer.

[Alone or together]
- Play solo and sink into the quiet.
- With 2 to 4 players, pass one iPhone around and play co-op.
- With 3 or more, one of you is secretly a traitor who may quietly destroy your gear and sell out the party at the end. You can accuse anyone you suspect.
- The final decision is a majority vote. If it's a tie, you talk it out and vote again.
- Help a wounded friend, or leave them behind. That choice stays with the ending too.

[About candles]
Each run uses one candle (up to 3; one relights every 60 minutes). The first run of every story is free. When you run out, you can watch a video ad to light a candle. Ads appear only when you choose to watch one, never during play or on an ending.

[You'll like it if]
- You want a short, properly scary story you can finish in about 30 minutes
- You love gamebooks, TRPGs, or Japanese horror
- You want something to play with friends or family on one phone
- You want a quiet game for a late night alone

[Note]
Contains horror themes. On devices without Apple Intelligence, the game uses its written script.

## Is Zankyo safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Zankyo.

## Is Zankyo legit?

Zankyo: Horror TRPG Gamebook appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Zankyo is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-11-02

Improved ads.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-26

Now available in English. All six stories, the Echoes and the AI Keeper narration have been translated.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-24

新しいシナリオを4本追加しました(満室の宿・帰りの切符・六階の灯・とまらない観覧車)。細かな改善も行いました。

### 1.0 — 2026-10-16

No release notes.

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