Chinese Strange Stories
Step into a living Chinese painting that blends the mystical, supernatural, and the struggles of daily life in the final years of the Ming dynasty. Experience a unique mix of classic turn-based RPG mechanics…
Chinese Strange Stories is an adventure developed by Longbow Creations, released 30 September 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Chinese Strange Stories is
Chinese Strange Stories is an adventure game developed by Longbow Creations and released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Godot Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"The Changqing monk of the Changqing Temple, By error falls as a mortal into the fray; The unfeeling multitude on the unfeeling path, Yet with compassion ferry the dust away." When chaos first was cleaved apart, the myriad things began to live. Man born under the time of Yin, the other lives came forth in many forms—born of womb, born of egg, born of shape, born of breath, born of spirit, born of ghost-essence, born of damp, born of flight—and day by day, year upon year, they filled the space between heaven and earth. It is also said: "All things possess feeling, be they demon or ghost." And having feeling, there arose countless partings and reunions, joys and sorrows, rights and wrongs…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GB RAM and Integrated graphics with Vulkan support. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Chinese Strange Stories launched on 30 September 2026, within three weeks of Marvel's Wolverine, Control Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall and Valheim.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Wolverine, Control Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall, Valheim.
Official trailer
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