It is worth noting that, while strange creatures help the human character with her cooking, the studio has confirmed that none of the content is canon with Black Myth: Zhong Kui. Rather, it’s purely for entertainment, serving as a showcase of in-engine visuals and the art style.

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 be the main subject of the story this time around. The Taoist figure was revealed in a 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?'”

“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. It also means that the studio gets to try its hand at making a new game from scratch, with new visuals, gameplay, technology, and a 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. There have also been rumors that the game might be making its way to the Nintendo Switch 2 at some point.

Black Myth: Zhong Kui 

Black Myth: Wukong was one of the biggest surprise hits of recent memory, but developer Game Science has ensured that it has more games in the pipeline. Much like how Wukong took players to amazing worlds and made them face against awesome bosses, Zhong Kui is all set to take things up a notch above its predecessor. We don’t really know much about the game at this point in time, but it’s going to be a fast-paced adventure with plenty of boss fights and picturesque vistas. There is no release period announced yet.

It all started when the studio began working on DLC for Wukong, which quickly took a turn. “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?’

“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.”

However, Feng Ji felt “relieved” when studio co-founder Yang Qi asked if he’d rather make something new instead of working on the DLC, and work started on Zhong Kui. And while it would have been a “solid choice,” the team is leaning more towards making a brand new game.

“New hero, new gameplay, new visuals, new technology, and new story. We want to free our hands, experiment boldly, break from fixed formulas, and start from scratch.”

Black Myth: Zhong Kui is coming to consoles and PC, but it’s a long way off from a release date. By Game Science’s own admission, the action RPG is “little more than an empty folder at this stage” with “hardly any game footage to share.” It’s another single-player title, but even the studio can’t comment on the gameplay and story since “we’re not even done with the outline yet.” Stay tuned for more details because it’s going to be a long wait.

The bearded individual riding the tiger is the titular Zhong Kui, a Taoist figure known for destroying ghosts, and who can command 80,000 demons. He would become a popular figure throughout Chinese culture, with his picture used as a ward against ghosts. What journey he’ll embark on remains to be seen, but ONL host Geoff Keighley assured that it would be another single-player adventure.

Interestingly, he also teased that Black Myth: Wukong’s Journey of the West-focused adventures weren’t over by a long shot. It could mean a possible DLC reveal at The Game Awards in December, but we’ll need to wait for more details.

In the meantime, Black Myth: Wukong launches on August 20th for Xbox Series X/S. It’s currently available for PS5 and PC.