Games Like Ace of Jianghu

Step into the jianghu and you are one card, like everyone else. Ace of Jianghu is a wuxia card adventure made by one person — a Korean who writes wuxia stories. Shaolin, Wudang, the Unorthodox Alliance, the Heavenly Demon Cult: become one of their four heroes and cross the jianghu. Each hero's story forks, and the road you take changes who you meet, and the story itself. A fight that begins with a feud inside your own sect runs through the war that tangles the orthodox, the unorthodox and the demonic, until it reaches the shadow whose hand has closed around the whole jianghu.

A jianghu drawn in one breath

The art, the sound and the words all passed through one pair of hands — someone who has long dreamed of the jianghu. 160-plus ink-wash cards, 80-odd named figures, twelve roads through the jianghu.

This is not a story about ascending. No immortals, no elixirs, no rising to heaven. Only people, blades, and what people do to each other.

Every sect fights its own way

Here, every card is a martial art. Win a fight and you learn a new technique, rest and you hone what you have learned, and let go of the moves that no longer serve you.

Hit a wall? Breakthrough — stake the whole turn on climbing a realm. Make it and your sect's Secret Art enters your deck. Miss it and your turn ends there.

And on the day that Secret Art is in your hand, pour in eight Qi and let loose a move that fills the screen.

Combat you read a turn ahead

What the enemy is going for is written above their head. Block it, slip it, or put them down before it lands. The whole fight is in how you answer a move you can already see.