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8 players
8 records
5.3
4.4
3.2
2.9

Kowakujo

BO7 PC : available Xbox : available PlayStation : available

Kowakujō is the Masaki family castle, where Takeo and his twin brother Takeshi grew up and where their father, the Shogun, was murdered with Takeo's sword. The castle stands inside an active volcano. It is in fact a Dark Aether copy that the dragon-shaped Shadowsmith Nyxara built from Takeo's stolen memories. The Twins send the crew of eight there to recover the World Seed and free Nyxara.

A game starts in the Outer Ward, below the castle, where the Jäger 45 hangs beside a collapsed wooden building for 500 points. The enemies are zombies, Armored and Heavy Zombies, Scorched Zombies, Hellhounds, Oni armed with a spiked kanobō, and Abominations.

Rank	Players	Round	Platform
1	Ghxstleader
1	OGz I Liam I
3	ZombroTV
4	Rantsycancy
5	yuzlyy
6	Iceyhotclan
7	Linker

Rank	Players	Round	Platform
1	Ghxstleader TheFirstRoomGuy

Kowakujo First Room world records

Solo

World record

Round44

Ghxstleader

Set Sep 2, 2026 · 47 days standing

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The Kowakujo First Room world record in solo is round 44, held by Ghxstleader.

World record

Round54

Ghxstleader TheFirstRoomGuy

Set Sep 8, 2026 · 41 days standing

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The Kowakujo First Room world record in 2 players is round 54, held by Ghxstleader and TheFirstRoomGuy.

Kowakujo First Room

The Kowakujo First Room leaderboard on Zombie First Room Rankings tracks every verified run held in the starting room of Kowakujo, on Call of Duty : Black Ops 7. 8 records are listed here, and the best rounds on record are 44 in solo by Ghxstleader and 54 in 2 players by Ghxstleader.

Kowakujo is tracked outside the rankings: its records earn no ranking points, because no ranking takes it. It does carry a difficulty coefficient — solo 5.3 and two players 4.4 — which is what weighs its rounds in the ZFRR rating of the players who hold them.

First Room is the purest discipline in Call of Duty Zombies: no Pack-a-Punch run around the map, no easter egg, no train through open ground. You hold the spawn room of Kowakujo, you keep the doors closed, and you push the round counter as far as the horde allows. Every high round, world record and personal best on this page is backed by its video and checked against the reference boards before it is listed.

Rules / Informations

Black Ops 7 First Rooms are tracked in a single category, No GobbleGums: reach the highest round you can without opening any door, every round played in full, no glitch or exploit.

No GobbleGums means no gum is used at any point, and none is broken down for points either. Keeping the three Whimsical gums in the pack is recommended: one taken by mistake does not void the run.

Full gameplay is required, and every player's point of view in co-op. Every game is played on the most recent patch; saving and quitting or crashing the game to void a down or a game over is not allowed. The rules of each map are listed on its leaderboard.

Game versions and platforms

The version the game is played on is part of the rules. A run played on a platform or a client refused below is not listed, whatever the round or the time — and a run already on the board is removed from it.

Call of Duty : Black Ops 7

Platform	Rule
Battle.net	ALLOWED
Steam	ALLOWED
Microsoft Store / Game Pass	ALLOWED
Xbox One / Series	ALLOWED
PS4 / PS5	ALLOWED
Cross-play A team may mix platforms. Such a run shows the cross-play icon on the board.	ALLOWED

Rules for this First Room

Taken from the ranking this board follows. A run that breaks one of them is refused, whatever the round.

Challenge Specifics

Reach the highest round you can without opening doors.
Every round must be played in full.
GobbleGums are NOT ALLOWED, and breaking gums down for points is NOT ALLOWED either.
Keeping the three Whimsical gums is recommended: one used by mistake does not void the run.
Glitches or Exploits are NOT ALLOWED.

Video Requirements

Full gameplay is required.
Multi-pov is required for co-op.
Twitch: Make sure your footage is highlighted as past broadcasts will not be accepted.
YouTube: Make sure your video is public or unlisted.

Black Ops 7

Every game is played on the most recent patch of the game.
Saving and quitting or force crashing the game to void a down, a Dying Wish use or a game over is NOT ALLOWED.
The game is still being updated: a patch that changes the balance of the game can lead to a board being reset.

A run that breaks these rules is not accepted, whatever the round reached. If a username, a nationality or a score looks wrong, tell us through the contact form.