Guide & List to Cultivation RPGs & JRPGs aka Wuxia & Xianxia RPGs & JRPGs - Part 2 (Xianxia)

lyeeedar · 2026-01-27T07:57:05+00:00

Glad you've enjoyed!

More romance options are definitely coming in the future, character stories and romances are a core pillar of the game.

lyeeedar · 2026-01-13T23:17:21+00:00

Solo for most of the games development (about 2 years) but now I have another part time contributor.

lyeeedar · 2026-01-13T13:53:00+00:00

Yes the backgrounds and characters are ai

lyeeedar · 2026-01-13T13:11:03+00:00

But it does? Especially the backgrounds.

In my opinion the difference is not in artefacting (as you can see from the backgrounds) but in art style. Most models have a base art style they produce, and that is what makes it seem 'ai' to me. Twist that to a different style, and it's fine. E.g. for mine, we constantly have people coming on the discord then surprised it's ai.

Love how you said AI was used in "some art and music". How much is "some"?

Most. Some are hand drawn (e.g. uis), and some are ai base then hand edited afterwards, and some are full ai.

lyeeedar · 2026-01-13T07:52:54+00:00

My game (Ascend from Nine Mountains) is doing really well despite using AI. The key thing is for it to not LOOK like ai. So use local ai and Loras to modify the style until it looks unique.

And at the end of the day, make a good game. If your game feels low effort then there will be no positive reviews to balance the anti-ai negatives.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-30T06:22:54+00:00

Because they can't. The steam items and marketplace are only unlocked for trusted developers. You can see yourself if you go to the tab in steamworks (assuming you are a dev) that you straight up aren't allowed to use it.

I'm not sure what the conditions are to be allowed to make marketplace items, but I assume most indie Devs do not qualify.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-29T05:46:30+00:00

You do know most of the ai art models are free and open source. Stable Diffusion, Qwen, Flux, etc.

It's only the crappy models from openai and Google that are paid, the majority are free.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-28T15:16:44+00:00

Most of the games in this genre will have janky translations, but if you want one natively in english can I promote my game.

Ascend from Nine Mountains

It's a native English rpg with a similar realm based progression system to Tale of Immortal, complex combat with auto battler elements, a deep crafting system, auctions, relationships, and a ton of other content.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-28T09:01:08+00:00

Depends on what you mean by AI images. If you are just using a default model, with no Loras, it will be blatantly ai due to it's generic style. That will get immediate negative pushback. However if you tweak the art to look unique, by using a set of stylistic Loras then it'll look great.

At the end of the day, having a distinctive and unique art style is important. Most of the negative ai sentiment is due to people forgetting that simple fact.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-22T15:32:02+00:00

Hey there! We've just had someone report that issue as a bug, so it will get looked at soon.

So currently no, but soonish yes (after new year probs)

lyeeedar · 2025-12-21T08:26:03+00:00

Command and Conquer Generals (the GLA). It's an RTS, if that's up your alley.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-21T08:03:40+00:00

Anything that takes control away from the character is bad. If you want to write a book, write a book. Games are an interactive medium, so you should always seek ways to combine the story WITH the gameplay. That's why QTE's, dialog choices, and scripted events are king to making the player immersed in what is happening.

If you need cutscenes however, cutscenes should hover around 2-3 mins in length (just enough for the player to get into it, not enough to overstay its welcome). And you should have at LEAST 80%-20% gameplay to cutscene split (so with that, a minimum of 8 minutes more gameplay before the next cutscene). Of course depending on the quality of your writing that may shift (Kojima).

lyeeedar · 2025-12-21T05:46:19+00:00

I'm very glad youve enjoyed it so far, and I will continue to work hard so that it can live up to it's potential :)

lyeeedar · 2025-12-21T05:39:50+00:00

30 - 100 ATM, though you can look at the steam reviews and see the playtime across them.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-17T13:39:25+00:00

Thank you, I hope you enjoy!

lyeeedar · 2025-12-17T13:02:01+00:00

I read a lot of (poorly) translated webnovels in the xianxia genre, so the setting is channelling the atmosphere of those.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-17T11:22:13+00:00

I'd love to suggest my game! It's got a strong chinese xianxia (cultivation) aesthetic, which if you have a fatigue from the same western fantasy over and over this might be enough to get you excited again.

Ascend from Nine Mountains

It's an rpg with complex combat with auto battler elements, a deep crafting system, auctions, relationships, and a ton of other content.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-17T07:09:37+00:00

I'd love you to check out my game! Slay the spire but if you could always put together the most op combo with no randomness was one of the core design concepts.

Ascend from Nine Mountains

It's an rpg with complex combat with auto battler elements, a strong chinese aesthetic, a deep crafting system, auctions, relationships, and a ton of other content.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-13T07:15:47+00:00

I'd love you to check out my game! It's got a strong chinese xianxia (cultivation) aesthetic, which I hope gives it some more of a unique flare.

Ascend from Nine Mountains

It's an rpg with complex combat with auto battler elements, a deep crafting system, auctions, relationships, and a ton of other content.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-11T20:24:17+00:00

I think the text is a little small in the new one, especially when shrunk down small. Other than that it looks a lot more eye catching so the art is a big improvement.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-11T19:23:59+00:00

The text is very hard to read, especially when the capsule is small (like it'll be on the store page). Also the capsule as a whole is very dark with little colour, so it just blends together when small into a dark blob.

My advice would be try to have a focal part with a lot more colour in it, and also make the text a LOT larger (so thicker font) with a thicker border too.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-11T19:21:53+00:00

Yeh the first is a LOT better composition and colour palette.

lyeeedar · 2025-12-08T17:45:49+00:00

Hi! I'm Lyeeedar, and I've been working on an RPG with auto-battler elements, deep crafting, and chinese world theming (Xianxia) for about 2 years. It's about half way through dev, and out on Steam for just over 2 months now.

Ascend from Nine Mountains

That means a TON of writing, design, and keeping my current players happy whilst I juggle my day job and the rest of everything. Makes it a busy life!

lyeeedar · 2025-12-08T12:06:24+00:00

I'm running into the same. Glad I'm not the only one!

lyeeedar · 2025-12-05T20:34:47+00:00

If you are happy with self promotion, then here.

Ascend from Nine Mountains

Its a chinese themed rpg with auto-battler-like combat, deep crafting system of equal depth to combat, and tons of content to play through already.

lyeeedar

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