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Last updated 28 Sept 2026
You never truly knew your father. Wuxia Life is a single-player wuxia RPG set on Yingzhou. Investigate his death and your origins, expose the Blacktide Gang's betrayal of Yingzhou, and shape your ending through ATB combat, Five Inner Voices, inner demons, and the Heavenly Storyteller.
Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy, Early Access · 2027 · More free games
About this game
Wuxia Life is a single-player wuxia RPG set on the fictional island of Yingzhou.
You begin in Luzhou Village, investigating your father’s death and the truth of your origins. The clues he left behind lead you into sect rivalries, rumors across the jianghu, the shadow of the Blacktide Gang, and a Yingzhou slowly falling out of balance.
Some people refuse to speak. Some leave only half a sentence. Others hide the truth in old letters, torn manuals, and drunken rumors. You are not only hunting for an enemy — you are trying to understand the path your father once walked, and why Yingzhou is being pulled into the Blacktide.
On this journey, you will join martial sects, befriend companions, build bonds, capture pets, forge equipment, and decide again and again who you want to become amid the pull of Killing Intent, Compassion, Pride, Dao Heart, and Guile.
Your choices do not simply change a morality score. They make certain voices within you grow louder.
Killing Intent: Blood must answer blood. No more waiting.
Compassion: Even in pain, do not let hatred live your life for you.
Pride: Be no one’s shadow, and let no bloodline define you.
Dao Heart: Truth must be revealed, but justice needs a line it will not cross.
Guile: Read the board first, then decide when to strike.
As your decisions accumulate, inner demons may build and trigger dangerous breakdown events under pressure. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Storyteller drives events and clues through three narrative rhythms: the righteous path, the hidden path, and the chaotic path.
The same journey through the jianghu can leave very different echoes depending on what you choose.
Combat follows an ATB rhythm, where speed affects the order of actions. You can manually control each move, or enable auto-battle for low-pressure fights and material farming.
6 active skill slots: Build around cooldowns, weapon requirements, equipment affixes, and party roles.
Speed controls: Switch between 1x / 2x / 4x / 8x battle speed.
3D battlefields: Character positioning, skill effects, impact feedback, and combat pacing.
Dungeon challenges: Waves, bosses, drops, staged encounters, and clear rewards.
Yingzhou’s jianghu features five martial sects you can join. Each sect has its own initiation, martial arts path, missions, and promotion events.
Qingyun Sect: Uphold the Dao with the sword, where sword heart and sacrifice matter.
Iron Lion Hall: Temper bone and will through fist and blade, where loyalty and responsibility are tested.
Medicine King Valley: Medicine and poison share the same root; saving lives and punishing evil both come at a cost.
Xuanwu Pavilion: Guard, endure, and counterattack while holding the line.
Wanderer’s Gate: Information, hidden weapons, and the open road — freedom matters, but friends are not for sale.
Sects are not just skill shops. As you advance, you may have to decide whether to publicly interrogate a traitor, how to deal with a poor porter who made a grave mistake, whether to open the valley to a plague-stricken village, whether to shelter refugees, and which secrets should never be sold.
You do not have to walk Yingzhou alone.
Protagonist: Martial sect techniques, internal arts, lightness skills, equipment, titles, and milestones.
Companions: Recruited through quests, each filling different combat roles.
Bond characters: Affection events, exclusive skills, and combo techniques.
Pets: Capture, raise, deploy, and gain skills or battle bonuses.
Mounts: Travel speed, terrain suitability, racing, and selected combat abilities.
Build your party around the protagonist, then combine companions, bond characters, pets, mounts, martial arts, equipment, and titles to face the main story, secret realms, arena battles, and jianghu events in your own way.
Yingzhou is not a map that simply waits for quests to be accepted.
What you say, whom you spare, whom you kill, and which lines you cross may all leave traces in the world.
A rival from a martial arts tournament may remember your choices.
A childhood friend may leave you a protective charm.
Your master may entrust you with an old sword at a critical moment.
Passersby may talk about local rumors, whispers, and things you recently did.
Wanted criminals have their own obsessions, lines before and after battle, and consequences if spared or killed.
These systems are not here just to add more items to a feature list. Their goal is to make you feel that Yingzhou slowly remembers what you have done.
The current version includes multiple lines of progression that can be pursued in parallel:
Main story, side quests, bond quests, daily tasks, and sect mission chains.
Sect training, sect tournaments, martial arts tournaments, and arena ranks.
Martial matchmaking events, wanted bounties, escort routes, and world encounters.
Forging, alchemy, crafting, enhancement, collection logs, in-game achievements, and ending collection.
Martial art fragments, moments of insight, secret realms, dungeons, boss challenges, and late-game trials.
You can focus on following the clues your father left behind, or first strengthen your party, sect progression, pets, equipment, and resource routes before returning to face the Blacktide of Yingzhou.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or equivalent
- Memory: 4096 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated GPU / NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 / AMD Radeon HD 777
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2048 MB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or equivalent
- Memory: 8192 MB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 560
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2048 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
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Wuxia Life Update — A Few Words from the Heart
It's been a while since the last update, so let me say this first: the game hasn't stopped. The demo is still in the works. But this post is about something else. A while ago, I made a promotional post about the game on Threads. Because the game uses AI-generated assets, comments came flooding in. The post was later taken down, and the account was suspended by the platform. I'd be lying if I said it didn't hurt. For a few days I just sank — I couldn't bring myself to touch the game, progress stalled, and I kept asking myself whether I had done something wrong. Slowly, I came around: I can't control how other people see this. All I can do is make the game as good as I can. So I'm not going to over-explain. I used AI — that's a fact. It's stated clearly on the store page, and I've never hidden it. Everyone has their own view on this, and I respect that. I just want to say one thing — through all the days of making this game, I've spent so much of my time on things that might never be noticed. The timing of a combat animation, reworked again and again. The ink-wash art, picked out piece by piece. More than seven hundred punctuation marks fixed in the script alone. Nobody asked me to do any of it. It's just that this is my game, and I want to do right by it. The game is called Wuxia Life. I didn't think much about the name at the time, but looking back now, making this game has itself been a chapter of my life. This is my life, and I just want to record it through this game. These past couple of days, I've been back at my desk. The demo is moving again at full speed, and the day it's ready, this is the first place you'll hear about it. Thank you to every one of you who has added Wuxia Life to your wishlist — there are more than 1,100 of you now. That means a lot to me right now. I will finish this game.Read full article on Community Announcements (CoolMeat)AnnouncementsOfficial
A jianghu that remembers you, and seven weddings.
Hi, I'm 肉. This time, I want to take a moment to talk about why I made Wuxia Life. A few years ago, I lost someone who mattered deeply to me. If it had happened in the jianghu, I could have done many things — but in real life, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even get an apology. Later I realized that wuxia, as a genre, has always carried things like these: betrayal, injustice, decisions that couldn't be undone, words left unsaid, vengeance arriving too late. All the things that have nowhere to sit in real life — in the jianghu, they have a place. So at the end of 2025 and early 2026, I started writing Wuxia Life. Not just to make a wuxia game — but to build a world that remembers. A world that remembers you The core of this game is simple: What you do, the world remembers. The people you saved will recognize you on the mountain road. The ones whose master you slew — their disciples will come for you. The girl you turned down will look away when she passes you in the alley. These aren't scripted triggers. This world simply remembers. I wanted to build a world where "the things that should be remembered" finally have a place to live. If you haven't seen the game yet Yingzhou Isle — an imagined island with five major sects to join ATB-style real-time combat, 4-person party with custom formations Four inner states (Heroism / Demonic / Stillness / Pressure) shift with your choices, affecting endings and NPC reactions The Storyteller appears at key moments, narrating your story in Chinese pingshu style 50+ encounters, multiple endings Traditional Chinese / English developed simultaneously About the marriage system I just added... Honestly, this part is a bit personal. Seven characters can marry you. Each has 10+ bond quests — from first meeting all the way to the wedding portrait. Why did I spend so much time on this? Truth is... I'm also kind of hoping to find my own other half, haha. So I poured that hope into seven stories — seven people willing to walk with you to ...Read full article on Community Announcements (CoolMeat)Patch NotesOfficial
🏯 Every word, every choice — Wuxia Life remembers (Dev Update #1)
Two weeks. A hundred commits. Wuxia Life leveled up a tier. EA launches in November, but we're not waiting. The past two weeks brought intensive deepening of story and faction systems — here's where we actually are. 🎭 The Five Inner Voices now actually "remember" your choices Killing Intent, Compassion, Pride, Dao Heart, Cunning — these five voices used to only interject in the moment. After this update: Major choices now echo back later in the storyBefore the final battle, your personal choices are recalledInner voices drive the Heavenly Storyteller's pacing — your inclinations shape event densityIn short: that opponent you spared with Compassion, that NPC you cut down in Killing Intent — they all return, in some form, before the final chapter. 📜 Main story emotional motifs + key beat rewrites The 18-chapter main story has been re-examined, with emotional motifs seeded and key beats deepened: Jade bloodline reveal hits harderLin Yifeng trust arc rewritten — his debt is now unavoidableBlacktide Gang storyline now flows in three full acts: port bandits → black market → father's trail 🏯 Five-faction personal story arcs now live Beyond joining, training, and graduating — each of the five factions now has a dedicated personal story arc: Qingyun Sect / Langji Sect character questsTieshi Gang / Yaowang Valley / Xuanwu Alliance prose polishBeian-perspective faction questsFaction-bound recruitable companionsChen Estate "Ghost Bride" quest line — entirely new Timeline reminder October 2026: Steam Next Fest demo November 10, 2026: Early Access launch EA runs 6–9 months. EA buyers receive every update through 1.0 at no extra cost. 🎮 Not on the wishlist yet? Click "+Wishlist" above to be notified the moment EA goes live. 📧 Contact: pcc402@nyu.eduRead full article on Community Announcements (CoolMeat)
