"Ghost Road: Underworld Awakening", developed and produced by Ghost Road Game Studio and published by Luna Infinity Games, will be officially released on Steam on January 1, 2024. This version supports both Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese Chinese.
This is a visual novel game about ancient Chinese myths and legends. It uses the ghost stories of the underworld as the background theme and combines a large number of allusions from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and folklore. On this basis, it is presented to players in the form of fictional creations.
The player will take on the role of a soul-gatherer from the underworld. Just after returning to the underworld from traveling in the human world, Luo Xiaoyan (Little King of Hell) arranges a difficult task to investigate the rampage of the grudge cage on the Wangchuan River. From this moment on, you will experience the completely different pasts of the three heroines. You will learn about the stories that happened to the heroines by possessing others, traveling through past lives, and recalling them. You will also reveal your true identity.
Gameplay
This game adopts a multi-line and multi-ending approach. There are a large number of options in the game for players to make interactive choices. The options are mainly divided into three types: "main line", "plot" and "ending".
Main line options: For example, Su Mei’s three main lines, Lu Xiaojia, Jin Dashuai, and Ahua, respectively tell different stories about these three people and Su Mei. Players can have a more complete understanding of the character of Su Mei after completing these three lines. and all that happened to her;
Plot options: This type of options will not affect the occurrence of the plot, but are just choices of different mood options;
Ending options: will directly affect the occurrence of different endings. If you choose the wrong one, you may not see the perfect ending of complete awakening.
Game features
Chinese mythology and ghost themed game, a rare visual novel independent game with an underworld theme as the background, don’t miss it
An original script of more than 200,000 words was created with great care, telling the legends of the underworld, the human world, the demon world and the Qingqiu Fox Clan.
There are more than ten CV dubbing actors, the dubbing is very distinctive, including loli, royal sister, girl and Sichuan dialect, etc.
More than ten OST original music productions, using a large number of traditional Chinese instruments, such as: suona, erhu, guzheng, Xiao, flute and Chinese drum, etc., with strong national characteristics, each BGM is in line with the game scene and story theme, shocking audio-visual enjoyment
Four female protagonists and more than ten NPC characters, three main stories and a side story of Po Meng, with multiple endings for each character
Art features, the original painting design is inspired by the water and land painting form of ancient Chinese Taoism, and combined with the modern popular two-dimensional painting style. A large number of underworld scenes: Fengdu Ghost City, Ghost Gate, Wangchuan River, Flower Sea on the other side, Rakshasa Ghost Market, etc.