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Wandering Sword
Developer The Swordman Studio
Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be. From the Steam store page
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52 of 52 · most liked firstThe videos covered all sort of games - those highly influential 90s Taiwanese RPGs, modern Steam hits like The Hungry Lamb, Wandering Sword and Naraka: Bladepoint, and even stuff like To The Moon (the dev is Chinese-Canadian). A huge loss in information & diversity of voices in video game media.
unlabelledView post →I was going to give this game a thumbs up because: +it starts off challenging and is engaging +the ancient Chinese philosophical beliefs and martial arts are great & inspiring +Some well-written party members However, I can't give this a thumbs up because: -DLC breaks the game, main character was one shotting everything on normal difficulty (by early mid game) which you cant change without starting a new game. -Drawn out and poor writing, several of the main villains aren't really introduced…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BTW, I think Hero's Adventure is the best starting point: store.steampowered.com/app/1948980/... Tale of Wuxia is also excellent, and it's a remake of a 2001 game called 武林群俠傳. Wandering Sword is great, but it's very linear. If you're ok with fan-translations, try Legend of Mortal & Ho Tu Lo Shu.
unlabelledView post →I LOVE this game, I've been gaming for over 25 years, I've played hundreds if not thousands of games(if we include flash games) and this game is EASILY in my top 20. The fact that I've also been obsessed with Wuxia since I was a toddler probably helps but I digress. To be honest I think this is pretty self-evident. Once you spend an hour in the game I am overly confident that you will see its charm. So I'm not going to write an essay of platitudes. Instead, I want to address some of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played just about every JRPG out there since I started gaming in the 90s and this earned its way onto my top 5 and it may even place higher depending on how much I enjoy it over the coming years. I truly just want this dev to make another game or a sequel to this as its easily among the most underrated JRPGs from the past 5+ years. Okay so the gameplay is a mix of octopath traveller, suikoden, and and tales of. You will likely auto a lot of your way through battles because you fight so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is great, fantastic, scratches the itch for many of my -tisms. I love it. But it has huge issues. (TL;DR MAJOR horrible quest issues. Unclear directives. Bad UI navigation. Large companion roster, 2/3rds are useless or meh. Failing 1 side/companion quest might lock you out of good endings or other companions later.) USE A WALKTHROUGH IF PLAYING. That being said; I could not, in good faith, ever recommend this game to anyone who doesn't have the neurodivergent superpower of enjoying…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How could I not recommend this game? It is enormous, packed with events, side-quests, branching narratives, and multiple endings. It is clearly the result of a team’s hard work. In this day and age, where developers often release half-baked, short games fixed later via patches and paid DLC, a title like this deserves appreciation. To illustrate the scale: I don't even know how many endings exist, but a single playthrough takes about 100 hours on average. One player reportedly took 250 hours…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good idea, but stupid execution. Here's the thing about this game, lots and lots of requirement/pre-sets/conditions, you have to meet, to properly proceed people's storyline, and NONE of it, is hinted to the player. Prepare to repeatedly recover old saves and lose 10 hours of progress everyday, just because you had failed one of the hidden requirements. I gave you ONE example: One side mission in western area, you need to know several things to compelete it PROPERLY: 1. One of the many…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a journey it's been. If you're a fan of the Wuxia theme, I ABSOLUTELY recommend this masterpiece of a game. If I were a little less poor, I'd have bought this game for my friends so they can experience this journey as well. LOOOONG review ahead so be warned: In terms of story, if you're familiar with this theme in general, you'll be familiar with a lot of the tropes present in the game. The story had me hooked from start to end, and I always felt that I gotta keep going and do…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easily the best game I've played in the last decade. Translation is actually not bad at all and the story is an absolute masterpiece. Big THUMBS UP and congrats to the devs!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR - Absolutely incredible RPG. Hard recommend for purchase. If your commited enough to buy, DLC have enough QOL features to also be worth an instant pick up. Less TL;DR: I'm not sure what part impressed me more about this game, the very addicting mechanics for charecter growth and strengthening, or the way if fixes so many of my issues with other RPG game of a similar kind. The Cultivation Funny enough i origionally picked this up because i've recently been very into LITrpg…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wandering Sword is an absolute hidden gem that JRPG/CRPG lovers absolutely should not pass on. If I were to use the quickest terms to summarize, this is the perfect blend of Octopath Traveler (visually) with a Chinese classic that many may know, but is also a crazy good game by the name of Heroes of Jin Yong. You have the gorgeous pixel art of Octopath and the near complete freedom of the open world at your fingertips from Heroes of Jin Yong. Needless to say, I was immediately hooked into the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished my first playthrough and I actually feel some void in my heart, I just don't want the journey to stop.. This is one of the most memorable story game I played in recent years and I would highly recommend it for fans of Wuxia, RPG, progression fantasy, or Chinese themed story. This game have a very diverse cast of characters which thankfully isn't one dimensional. The writing is good and immersive in my opinion, characters feel alive with their background story & goals, there's lots of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1 playthrough, 83 hours, and many MANY choices later Wandering Sword has become one of my favorite RPGs. There are so many outcomes and choices to so many things, it's truly a shining example of player agency. 9.5/10. Yaoyao best girl.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Highly recommend this game if you like old school JRPGs and wuxia settings in games. This game was the first one I installed on my steamdeck as there was no mac version that I could run on my laptop :( Wow, what a relaxing and nice game. It has exploration, beautiful graphics (octopath traveller reignited my love for JRPGs), an interesting progression and leveling system and way too many sidequests. The story is nice, wuxia standard stuff nothing too new. Which is ok, for me the game was the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is what I wanted/expected Octopath Traveler to be. A great cast of characters with an actual interconnecting storyline that develops every character. Everyone gets their moment to shine. The mechanics of the game are also really fun and engaging, especially if you are a fan of the Wuxia setting. The game gives so many choices and options in how to improve your character. Each martial art and school feels unique and different compared to each other. Combine this with the multiple endings,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is an absolute masterpiece, and without a shadow of a doubt, I rank it among the top five RPGs I've ever played. I bought it almost on a whim after noticing how overwhelmingly positive the reviews were. I wasn't expecting much, but what I got completely exceeded my expectations. There are only two minor downsides. First, as a Westerner, it can sometimes be difficult to keep track of the different Chinese names, but that's simply part of the setting and not really something the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wandering Sword has an epic story, so much replayability, and lots of memorable characters! I enjoyed every hour playing as Yuwen Yi in the Jianghu, but most importantly this game turned me into a wuxia lover
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review: Wandering Sword – A Masterpiece of Martial Arts (With One Warning) After two full playthroughs and 80 hours of gameplay this Lunar New Year, I can confidently say that Wandering Sword is one of the most rewarding RPG experiences I’ve had in years. While it clearly takes its visual cues from the style popularized by Octopath Traveler, I actually found myself enjoying this journey through ancient China even more than its predecessor. ⚠️ A Word of Warning for Completionists Before I dive…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a wonderful game, which is Wuxia based and the graphics and animation is clearly inspired by Octopath Traveller series. Wandering Sword has a pretty gripping story with several twists and turns throughout the game, as if when u think the story is about to end, a surprise villain appears and fits quite well in the story. The story acknowledges the protagonist's growth as a martial artist. Early game, the game throws some tough battles. Although winning all is not required, but in case you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there is room to improve QOL like arranging squad member, teaching new technique (teaching 1 by 1 to all member pretty annoying tbh) but other than that the game is sooooooo gooodddddddd so many details on the story resource so generous really recommended hope they release new game with better improvement 10/10 worth every hours
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Jujur ini game bukan sekedar game 2.5D biasa. The story is very compelling bro, side quest dan affinity-nya berasa kayak bermain game TW3 Wild Hunt yang wajib Anda walkthrough. Sayangnya me tidak dapat Main Heroine karena tidak tahu kalau ada walkhtrough affinity. If you like a Manhua, you'll love this. It's a deep and complex Wuxia RPG.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey, instead of playing a game that doesn’t disclose it’s lame chatbots, you should actually go play some cooler Wuxia-inspired games like Dynasty Warriors and Wandering Sword.
unlabelledView post →Wandering Sword is infuriating in the worst kind of way. The gameplay is fine, it's a really enjoyable menu simulator with a xianxia filter. My main gripe is the HORRIFIC railroading of the story that will waste so much of your time. There is a common genre of Korean manhwa where a martial artist in murim regresses to the past. Typically they have regrets and are set to "do right" and make a better ending for themselves and others. If you play this game, this character will be you, the player.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is really great. As a manhwa reader who’s familiar with the martial arts genre, I’m truly satisfied playing it—it’s like becoming the main character in a manhwa.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was excited how this was cultivation and chinese themed. Cool panda mount, cultivation arts, character depth. What I hated was how this is more of a light novel or just a super linear game. There are no side features, no open world feeling to give you the freedom to take your character and grow them. I was surprised when I heard the game had 20+ endings thinking it would offer more freedom. But the combat is lacking and you can only just go from story to story. Even most choices like saving…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At looooong last, a wuxia game that satisfies my eternal passion for the wuxia genre like none of wuxia games in the past do. Let me elaborate, you can’t make a wuxia game by just creating a RPG game that does fighting, level up, and spend skill points on some ‘martial arts’ skill tree. Actually you can but you won’t feel immersed in wuxia lore. Why? Because in the wuxia genre the protagonist doesn’t become legendary the way protagonists in Diablo or Path of Exile do. Wandering Sword shows…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You need a companion walkthrough otherwise it's really to miss out on companions. Do a side quest too late? you're locked out of that companion Choose the wrong response? you're locked out of that companion. Didn't bring the right companions for a certain quest? locked out of the best ending. Don't have the right amount of affection? Locked out of companion. There's no hints on how to proceed, which makes this a frustrating experience. You don't feel free to undertake quests in any order;…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Spent 84 hours on my first playthrough. 10/10, wish I had no life so I could easily do it again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish there would be some post-game exploration. To just have the final fight, ending of some characters then return to the menu screen is making me feel a little... empty inside.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My word, what an amazing game, at first the story and characters seem all over the place, i have hard time remembering who is who and what sect and what relation they have but after the story unfolds one by one like an onion wow only then it became very interesting like reading wuxia novel but i am playing it instead, like ingredients that don't taste good by it self but when one by one added to the mix it became a dish, the story unfold in a very beautiful, sometimes sad, heroic and complex…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is first time that I have been compelled enough to finally take the time to actually write a review for a game, so seeing how I gave it a thumbs up, should tell you all you need to know. I would write a longer review, as this majesty of a game deserves, but I will just say that I just finally finished the game after a glorious 87.6 hours. I am totally obsessed with this game. I cannot speak highly enough of it. If you are a fan of Octopath graphics, enjoy tactical combat in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →7/10. A nice JRPG with a decent story and a fantastic real-time combat option that saves a lot of time. Just be warned, doing side quests will make you completely overpowered for the main plot.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A lot of cool and unique aspects to this game, and entertained me for a long time. But. The first, like, 10 hours is basically a tutorial where your character is a wet square of used toilet paper and you have some super master temporarily on your team to beat up your opponents. There's an open map, but if you go anywhere but where you're supposed to, the enemies are way too hard. Then, you don't really know where you can go. The game only tracks some of quests and story for you, but follow-up…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has scratched that itch in my brain that only Wuxia or Xianxia novel and manhwa has scratched. I really enjoyed the visual, the pixel art is genuinely beautiful (except for one companion lol). Gameplay is similar to strategy turn-based RPG, with tiles, movement, buffs and debuffs and it can get ridiculous once it gets going. Can be quite grindy, however. One thing that I might dock it is the fact that everything is so interlinked with each other as one dialogue option is the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a great game with a ton of passion poured into it, and is totally worth picking up at the price. But it's not without its frustrations, so know these before jumping in: The game is rife with points where going somewhere or talking to someone in the wrong order may lock you into a certain outcome without any context that this may happen to you, so you have to keep several active save files. Related to above and keeping several save points: particularly on your first playthrough, you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are a fan of classic Suikoden, you'll like this game. I think it's an even better Suikoden-like than Eiyuden Chronicle. Suikoden itself is based on Water Margin novel (which was also adapted into Chinese drama's etc). Wandering Wword takes inspiration from wuxia novels/-c-dramas.: Condor Heroes, The Return of the Condor Heroes, Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber etc. You can find these c-drama's on youtube. Super underrated game, I hope developer will make sequels/continue the series. They…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a wonderful game. This game is an indie 2.5D chinese wuxia game. The game is heavily open world and doesn't hold your hand as you explore the game and its mechanics. If none of those factors dissuade your from picking a game, then I would highly recommend this game. Playing this game has been a bit of an addiction for me, the translation is great, the plot is outstanding, and the free DLC is also very fun too. The gameplay is also a lot of fun and there are so many builds to try…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I always hesitate to buy wuxia/xianxia games on stream since usually, they're heavy on text and story department and most Chinese dev teams just don't even bother to translate them properly to English or spam machine translation, which kills 90% the enjoyment of the game to me. Wandering Sword, however, is different. The game is fully translated to English and the translation quality is surprisingly well-done. If you're a fan of the genre, keep it a try and it'll not disappoint you (coming…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hope they fix the UI. It's so close to being good. This game feel so bad on a controller.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never in my life did I expect this indie that I tried on a whim for its Octopath copy graphics to be one of the greatest JRPGs ever made and enter my personal top 10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredible story if your into wuxia or wandering heroes tropes, need a guide to "properly" play tho, lot of missable stuff and event that will punish you later in the stories.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is actually peak. I don’t see why anyone would dislike this game if they like wuxia. Satisfying progression and a branching but set storyline. Gameplay was so fun that I started NG+ immediately after my first playthrough.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →原价RM61贵了，看看中国区才卖多少钱，支持中文游戏，不支持这游戏，不值得
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- Get discounted so you won't regret it - Game looks great, feels like Octopath Traveller 100% - Menu navigation with a controller is extra painful, UI is terrible in game - Menus feel like paper, I dont know how else to explain it. It feels like tacked on windows boxes over your main game which is flimsy. Tactile response is bad. No haptics, no sounds. Just that duck sound when you press a bad button. For some reason the tooltips overlap with the item you have selected? And the tooltips are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For some unknown reason, my PC fan is going hard with this game (I am fine with games like MH Wilds or other high spec requirement games). Is definitely an issue when this game should be mostly 2D graphics. ======================================== One major issue is the combat (I'm playing in hard mode): There are tons of battles and grinding needed, however there is lack of QOL that makes the combat less chore to play. For example, for each challenging or harder normal encounter (and there…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is just so good I don't know where to begin... I've gotta be on my 6th playthrough by now or something. 6 playthroughs, and by the way, I discover something new EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Some random things that are just fabulous about Wandering Sword: 1. THE CHARACTER ART HELLO??? 2. The fact that new updates and DLC just keep coming out 3. The music oh my lands 4. WEI HUO 5. Stunning visuals and pixel scenery 6. YAN WEIHUAN 7. There is soooo much story and plot content that I sometimes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only buy the game is you are okay with auto combat
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic JRPG with a unique Wuxia setting. The story is really good all around and even gets quite touching at some parts. My personal favourite storyline in the game is the Nanjiang storyline with Bai Weiyi and the Snowlock Tribe. This storyline shows the clash of ideals between the main character Yuwen Yi and Bai Weiyi and is executed quite nicely in my opinion. There are also quite a lot companions that you will meet throughout the game that have varying recruitment conditions so a guide…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to love this game I really do. But it has way too much content which causes the quality to suffer. You essentially have to play this game with a walkthrough and even then often the story just feels average. Especially on the companion side. There are more than two dozen of them... why? Even with just a few some games do not have enough time for all of them, in this game it is obviously even worse. Companions often don't feel like they are party members and more like they are just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Story -Excellent, but not fully immersive. Most quests offer multiple endings, and the side stories are outstanding and memorable. The main storyline, however, feels somewhat flat. The storylines of Northern Frontier and Imperial Court seem rushed or unfinished, and it doesn’t feel like the developers plan to revisit them. Many supporting characters are vivid and well-developed, which makes the protagonist come across as comparatively bland. The female protagonists either feel like they’re…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →我冲着剧情和95%好评来的，努力坚持了2h实在玩不下去了，这个Pixel画风和UI交互，我眼睛灰常难受。 关了之后专门对比了一下仙剑1，也没到这地步啊。我觉得像素风没问题，但是3000多那个分辨率颗粒度还这么粗，我看就木有这个必要了吧。之后看谷歌搜索都感觉眼睛没那么难受了。
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played a small fraction of this game and I have to say it is BLOODLESS. Sadly, this is a problem with many modern games. No cojones. I think what finally did me in was when someone told the protagonist not to be consumed by revenge. His response? “Oh, I already know that! But thanks for reminding me!” Really? Is this storytelling in 2026? If I wanted to play a game as a smiling nice guy who means no harm, I’d quit gaming and just play my own boring life. When I game, I want to play as a driven…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't want it to end. Not sure there is a much greater way to feel about a game. While going for other endings/achievements is tempting, I think I may just let things lie as they are. I rarely finish games and this was a joy from start to finish. A welcome surprise.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall a good turn based RPG, but would prefer them to stop with all the missable (missed a big part of event and playable characters) not everyone have time to redo a second playthrough and it is simply not fun having to keep looking at guide while playing. Every skills have their own specific buff, it sound fun at first, but getting out of hands late game. "Using this skills proc buff A at 50% last 4 turns but if condition B fulfilled proc buff B with the following effects." Too much to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I almost hate how invested I got in this game because y'all, this is a long haul game. The world doesn't seem vast but there are layers and layers and those layers have layers of what you can get into. The drawback of this is that it's possible to back your folks into a corner where they're not amped up enough for the quests available, so be careful of that. I was surprised by how the storylines got me, especially for most of this being pixel art. (The dialogue drawings of the characters…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a cool game with a lot of neat stuff. But my one major complaint is it's habit of going "You walked into an unmarked boss area you can't escape from and are vastly underleveled for. Hope you saved recently~" Ok, two major complaints. It's *obsessed* with "Have a fight, and then the other guy gets away because reasons"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lazy, terribly designed UI. There is no context or meaning around the options that are appears even before the actual gameplay starts. After struggling to understanding how to pass the first menus, the player is showered with names, places, clans, martial arts styles, dynasties and whatever is thrown at the screen, following with an obtuse tutorial that is assuming we are all familiar with the game mechanics. It is messy, confusing, and tiresome. Don't even start with the "it gets better…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chinese slop at its finest, no difficulty, skill, story, or sense of progression, my expectations were low, but this wasn't even close. Terrible RPG, Terrible strategy game, I guess its like the chinese warhammer series, terrible games but they just churn them out.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of my favorite games I've played in the past few years. The story is pretty decent if you're a fan of the genre, the game is still fun after multiple play throughs, The story is very heavily affected by the quests you do or dont complete as well as companions you do or dont invite to the party. I am a fan of the genre and this is the first game which had great gameplay a decent story and imo beautiful art I would put this game at a 9-9.5 out of 10 Very highly recommended If this game at all…
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