Developer game Science has released a new video for its next title, Black Myth: Zhong Kui. Rather than showcasing gameplay or story, however, the video instead focuses on showing us a cooking session for six minutes, with everything being entirely in-engine. The video is meant to be a celebration of the Chinese New Year for the Year of the Horse, which will take place on February 17. You can check it out below.
It is worth noting that, while there are strange creatures in the video helping the human character with her cooking, the studio has confirmed that none of the contents of the video are canon with Black Myth: Zhong Kui. Rather, it is meant to be purely for entertainment, and serves as a showcase of in-engine visuals and the art style only.
Black Myth: Zhong Kui was announced back in August 2025 with a teaser trailer. As the title implies, Wukong won’t be returning as the protagonist this time around. Rather, the eponymous Zhong Kui will seemingly be the main subject of the story this time around. The Taoist figure was shown off in the CG teaser trailer riding a tiger.
While few details have been revealed about the game so far, Game Science CEO Feng Ji had spoken about wanting to work on a brand new project rather than a DLC for Black Myth: Wukong. In an interview, he spoke about the studio feeling “confusion, emptiness, and a kind of dread” when it had started working on Wukong DLC.
“What I really couldn’t shake during that period was mostly confusion, emptiness, and a kind of dread (I know that sounds melodramatic — don’t shoot me). No matter how ashamed I felt for ‘not being able to be happy,’ those emotions kept coming, uncontrollably and in waves, especially when I felt pulled under by questions like ‘Are you working on a DLC or not? Which characters will be in it? When will it be released?’,” he said.
“As a professional adult, I’m good at hiding those negative feelings and convincing myself to pull myself together and get on with making the DLC, because I knew clearly that the people asking for a DLC were, without doubt, fans who love Black Myth: Wukong and Game Science, the very people who carried us to where we are.”
Ji went on to describe his sense of relief when he was approached by Game Science co-founder Yang Qi, who spoke about the studio working on a new game instead. This also means that the studio gets to try its hand at making a new game from scratch, with new visuals, gameplay, technology, and a brand new story.
Black Myth: Zhong Kui is being developed for PC and consoles. It doesn’t yet have a release date however. In the meantime, you can check out the studio’s previous title, Black Myth: Wukong on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. For more details, take a look at our review. There have also been rumors that the game might be making its way to the Nintendo Switch 2 at some point.
