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Fantasy Li · Published by Fantasy Li
Very Positive — 90% positive (97 reviews) · 21 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
What if a game were made not for profit, but purely to spread culture and art? "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is such a game. The author approaches it with an academic attitude to study this masterpiece, aiming to let more people appreciate the folk customs of ancient China.
Indie, Free To Play, Casual · 2024 · More free games
Dive into "Along the River During the Qingming Festival," an indie free-to-play adventure from Fantasy Li that explores traditional Chinese life with academic precision and artistic flair.
About this game
This is a hidden object game with historical and cultural interpretations, attempting to carefully and seriously investigate and verify the intriguing stories expressed in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".
The main gameplay currently involves finding 352 objects or characters in the painting. Each item comes with annotations explaining its function and situation in the painting.
Many objects and customs shown in the ancient painting no longer exist today and can only be guessed and inferred from existing books and experience. Naturally, there are some unsolved mysteries worth discussing and debating. Therefore, the game includes some unverified conjectures that may not align with mainstream views and are the author's personal interpretations, provided for reference only.
"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" mainly showcases the ships, bridges, houses, marketplaces, festive activities, and cultural customs of the Northern Song Dynasty. The details are so vivid it's as if the social landscape of that time was captured by a camera.
On that wooden bridge with no pillars, whose manufacturing technique has long been lost, a crowd surges, with nearly a hundred merchants, officials, sailors, fishermen, and passersby filling the space.
The streets are full of shops, signboards, and vendors, including fortune tellers, storytellers, bicycle repairmen, medicine sellers, doctors, barbers, touts, porters, sedan chair bearers, and gamblers - people from all walks of life.
In terms of ships, it meticulously depicts the ship structure, detachable raise-and-lower stern rudder technology, anchor chain assembly, decoration styles of passenger and cargo ships, types of goods transported, and details of people's lives on boats such as cooking, worshiping, doing laundry, rowing, punting, sightseeing, and resting.
Let's journey with Mr. Zhang Zeduan through the urban life of the Northern Song Dynasty 1100 years ago.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Window 10
- Processor: i3 3210
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 460
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
HD Remastered
1. Significantly enhance clarity, increasing the resolution of the painting from 1800 to 3651, and the original file size from 24M to 253M. 2. Adjusted the detail processing intensity at various zoom levels to avoid blurring at certain angles. Remade the color version of the painting, removing any extraneous hues. 3. Added a setting option to hide the ruler, while hiding all UI for an immersive viewing experience of the painting. 4. Optimized the game loading scheme, with the color painting not loaded by default, reducing game loading times. 5. The default setting for the orthographic camera option has been changed to checked, improving frame rates during gameplay.Read full article on Community Announcements (夕)Patch NotesOfficial
Game Experience Detail Optimization
1. When entering the game for the first time, the in-game language is automatically set to the system language. 2. Added a right-click tip to skip interpretation in the interpretation panel. 3. Added optional setting "Skip Voice Narration". 4. Added optional setting "Hide Click Text". 5. Fixed bug: Orthographic camera and auto-follow icon settings were not being saved. 6. If no new icons are found within 1 minute, a shaking bell will appear in the upper left corner of the screen, guiding players to enable system hints. Hint: "Long press on the locked icon and the scroll ruler will shrink near the icon. After that, long pressing the icon again will directly unlock it". Enjoy your game~ No more troubles with in-game puzzles~(#^.^#)Read full article on Community Announcements (夕)Patch NotesOfficial
Achievement is coming!
To meet everyone's expectations for this game, 21 brand new achievements have just been launched~ If you think this game is not bad, we hope you can give a recommendation in your review. Your support is the greatest encouragement for my work! In the future, I will check the comment section and community center from time to time, looking forward to your valuable opinions! Tip: If you have already played for a while before this update and want to collect all the achievements, it is recommended that you first use the reset progress in the main menu~Read full article on Community Announcements (夕)Patch NotesOfficial
Performance Optimization
The current version update mainly optimizes the game's performance, with the frame rate on my PC increasing from 70 to 120. It also runs smoothly on my GTX 960M laptop. ~(￣▽￣)~*Read full article on Community Announcements (夕)
