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Hunt demons in a Chinese-folklore roguelike, building a card deck and choosing martial skills to shape each turn-based run.
Released 17 Apr 2025
Hunt Folklore Demons
Build Martial Decks
Choose Inner Skills
Yao-Guai Hunter is a Wuxia roguelike deck-building game. In a world where Yao-Guai roam free, player battles with various evil beings, collecting cards and learn inner skills. Encountering various adventures in the martial world.
Developed by MyACG Studio · Published by MyACG Studio
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Play as a Yao Hunter in a martial-fantasy world inspired by Chinese folklore, facing demons and other supernatural foes. Each hunter has a distinct fighting style and a set of cards built around their abilities.
In turn-based battles, play cards by spending action points, using attacks, defenses, and character-specific effects. When the draw pile runs out, shuffling the discard pile costs an action point; cards, inner skills, and elixirs can shape how a deck handles combat.
Advance through stages of enemies, bosses, and random events, adding cards and choosing rewards as a run develops. Increasing difficulty levels offer further challenges, while additional modes include daily challenges, custom rules, and a multiplayer tournament.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its ink-wash-inspired art and the distinct mechanics of its characters, along with the variety of decks those mechanics enable. Some find the battles and builds satisfying or approachable, while others feel the resource and shuffling rules constrain card play and deck construction.
When spirits roam and legends come alive, only a true cultivator can restore balance.
As a lone Yao Hunter, wield blade and spell to cleanse a world where ancient demons awaken and forgotten myths take shape.
Step into a hand-painted realm inspired by Chinese folklore — a living scroll of monsters, miracles, and martial arts.
Every choice writes a legend. Every battle bends fate.
Mo San – A warrior from the Yao-Slaying Bureau, carrying a cursed blade thirsts blood.
He channels his rage into raw power — but with every cut, the blade hungers more.
How long before it devours him whole?
Chuan – A Taoist with a bamboo-fire sword and a pouch full of dangerous inventions.
He may look frail, but his bullets are blessed with talismanic magic.
His homemade weapons "Bamboo Bombard" — turn spiritual alchemy into explosive justice.
A-Zi – A prodigy witch from the southern Miao tribes, bonded with the poisons of the wild.
She commands a legion of venomous insects and conjures ancient hexes passed down through bloodlines. To fight her is to fight the jungle itself.
Ao Yu – A young dragon-descendant learning to command the storm.
With mastery over wind, fire, thunder, and rain, she dances on the edge of control.
But when her human form shatters... the dragon within awakens.
400+ Handcrafted Cards
172 Inner Skills
54 Mystical Elixirs
100+ Random Events
100+ Unique Enemies
20 Ascending Difficulty Levels
Yao Hunt Tournament – Team up with friends and race to cleanse the land
Yao-Hunter’s Edict – Daily global challenges with ranked leaderboards
Custom Mode – Tailor your adventure with custom seeds and rules
Explore the [Experimental Features → Workshop] menu to install community mods and create your own martial myths.
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| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 75 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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