Authentic xianxia cultivation fantasy
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“A game that truly embodies the cultivation I read about in manhua; it's really good.”
Steam review · 197.8 h played ↗
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 57%Mixed · 57%鬼谷工作室2023Management · Sandbox · Simulation
The verdict
A deep, addictive xianxia cultivation RPG with huge build variety and a lively NPC world, but grindy, repetitive, and let down by launch problems and rough English. Skip it if you don't love the genre or grinding.
Great for
Xianxia/cultivation novel fans who enjoy long grindy progression, theorycrafting builds and emergent NPC drama
Main risk
Game may not launch without manual fixes, and the grindy loop gets repetitive and badly balanced late.
What changed in the last 30 days
12 recent reviews
Steam shows 80% positive over the last 30 days versus 56% overall. The few recent reviews are enthusiastic about xianxia fantasy, NPC revenge stories and addictive progression. We can't tie it to a specific patch.
12 recent reviews
What players love
Living NPC world with emergent stories
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“My favorite part is that it's a living world of NPCs who are doing basically the same thing you are.”
Steam review · 13.3 h played ↗
Deep build variety and progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“The build diversity + power scaling is especially commendable, with 4 elements + 5 martial arts, each having 3 different basic, 6 special skill and 2 ultimates.”
Steam review · 46.6 h played ↗
Addictive and highly replayable
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“it's just so damn addicting.”
Steam review · 88.3 h played ↗
Sects, crafting and many systems
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“I liked becoming a Sect leader and raiding other sects.”
Steam review · 48.8 h played ↗
Great modding support
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“One of the best moddable games I've ever seen.”
Steam review · 33.6 h played ↗
What players complain about
Game fails to launch without fixes
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Its 2026 and the dev still can't fix the issue of starting the game.”
Steam review · 198.6 h played ↗
Developer controversy, workshop and malware flags
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“the devs killed the game potential by making modding via their own service which REQUIRES a chinese phone number”
Steam review · 39.8 h played ↗
Repetitive, extremely grindy loop
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The game is a grind fest. Grind, grind, grind, grind. That is the gameplay.”
Steam review · 138 h played ↗
Game-breaking bugs and corrupted saves
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“played for 80 hours just to have my entire save (and backups) get bricked”
Steam review · 80.4 h played ↗
Poor or incomplete English localization
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“its been years and the game still isn't completely translated yet.”
Steam review · 242.3 h played ↗
Unbalanced combat and unfair bosses
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“Unfair bosses, unfair combat design(with simple dodging being assigned to a skill with cool down)”
Steam review · 252.4 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: PlayableController support25 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 64 bit
Processor2.50GHz
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsHD4400
Storage25 GB available space
OSWindows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 64 bit
Processor2.50GHz
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsHD4400
Storage25 GB available space
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