Here is nearly seven minutes of Black Fantasy: Wukong follow-up Black Fantasy: Zhong Kui. Properly, form of.
Whereas developer Recreation Science has dropped the brand new in-engine trailer and labelled it as pertaining to the highly-anticipated sequel, it additionally contains a “non-canon” disclaimer which suggests all the pieces you see right here might don’t have any bearing in any respect on the ultimate recreation or its story, and has solely been launched by the staff to have fun Chinese language New Yr and welcome within the Yr of the Horse.
However whilst you will not see any gameplay or fight per se, the “non-canon, for leisure functions solely” trailer nonetheless exhibits in-engine footage and provides us our greatest look but at what to anticipate from the sequel, notably by way of the way it seems to be and sounds. Let me take you thru it.
It begins out usually sufficient as a younger lady strikes round an al fresco kitchen getting ready a meal. Look a bit nearer, although, and you will understand that the determine that passes her close to the start is not fairly human, and the man who opens the big oyster-stroke-mussell shell reveals not a mollusc however, effectively, a bit grey-faced man, uh, factor. She then prepares a slab of meat with blinking eyeballs embedded in it.
There’s extra — far more — however it’s such a delight, I might advocate watching it your self. Simply keep in mind that it is extra of a tech demo and is unlikely to affect the eventual storyline of Black Fantasy: Zhong Kui, very like the spin-off story Recreation Science equally released at Chinese New Year last year.
Black Fantasy: Wukong developer Recreation Science revealed sequel Black Fantasy: Zhong Kui at Opening Evening Dwell 2025 final August. “Set in opposition to the backdrop of the traditional Chinese language folktale ‘Zhong Kui Banishing Evil,’ Black Fantasy: Zhong Kui is a single-player motion role-playing recreation rooted in historical Chinese language fantasy,” GameScience mentioned.
“The sport will ship distinctive experiences and gameplay options that push our limits, whereas additionally bringing contemporary concepts and needed adjustments to handle previous flaws and regrets.” As but, there isn’t any launch window, not to mention a agency date.
Predecessor Black Fantasy: Wukong is the record-breaking motion recreation that launched throughout PC and PlayStation 5 in 2024, promoting 10 million copies in simply three days. The Xbox Sequence X and S variations launched in August 2025. It returned a Nice 8/10 in IGN’s Black Fantasy: Wukong evaluate, through which we wrote: “Regardless of some irritating technical points, Black Fantasy: Wukong is a good motion recreation with implausible fight, thrilling bosses, tantalizing secrets and techniques, and a stupendous world.”
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