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As a Yaoling Keeper, explore a mythic land, catch creatures, build auto-battle teams, and confront a dark power threatening them.
Released 19 Jun 2025
Catch and Evolve Yaolings
Build Auto-Battle Teams
Cast Charms Mid-Battle
Yaoling: Mythical Journey is a creature collecting Eastern fantasy RPG featuring an world filled with rich stories and unique Yaolings. Tasked to uncover a mysterious evil, you embark on a journey with your Yaolings, forming new friendships, engage in intense battles, and face countless challenges!
Developed by RAYKA STUDIO · Published by RAYKA STUDIO, NPC Entertainment, Craftmos Games
You play as a Yaoling Keeper journeying across the Land of the Ancients, where a dark power is unsettling the Yaolings. Travel through varied regions, meet other Keepers, and investigate the threat.
Find and capture Yaolings, then assemble teams for real-time auto-battles. Each creature has its own abilities and talents; adjust your lineup for different opponents and use charms to heal or strengthen allies, or hinder enemies.
Yaolings can gain experience, evolve, and pass traits to offspring through breeding. Rescue companions to develop a village with facilities for activities such as farming, mining, cooking, and crafting, while you also pursue treasures, fishing, and Keeper challenges.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its creature designs and collection, as well as experimenting with team lineups, talents, and combinations in auto-battles. The art and world are also recurring draws. Criticism often centers on timed breeding and village tasks, difficulty spikes that can demand more grinding or team optimization, and a story many find thin or abruptly concluded. Some players enjoy the challenge and progression more than others.
"Yaoling: Mythical Journey" takes place on the mysterious Land of the Ancients, where unique environments gave birth to different types of Yaolings. With the combined efforts of the Divine Jade Tree and Yaoling Keepers, Yaolings have become inseparable friends and companions to humans. However, a dark power brews behind the seemingly harmonious veil, stirring up unease among the Yaolings…
The Land of the Ancients is home to over 300 types of fantastical Yaolings of unique species, characteristics, and abilities. Every Yaoling is unique due to their combination of stats and talents. As they gain combat experience, Yaolings can evolve into more powerful forms, many of which might bring you unexpected surprises!
No Yaolings are weak in the hands of an adept Yaoling Keeper! On your journey to become an outstanding Yaoling Keeper, you must learn the abilities and talents of different Yaolings, be flexible in creating strong lineups, and devise strategies against different opponents and situations.
In rare circumstances, you may encounter Yaolings with unusual colors, shiny appearances, or larger sizes during your journey. Rumor has it that some Yaolings may even possess all these traits simultaneously! These unique features will be retained through level-ups and evolution. One would wonder what other surprises await Yaoling Keepers on this mythical journey?
Rescue companions in times of crisis and invite them to help build up your village. They will unlock useful buildings such as restaurants, training grounds, breeding dens, and more! In addition to their excellence in combat, some Yaolings make great helpers for farming, mining, cooking, and crafting.
For unknown reasons, Yaolings are becoming restless and transforming into demons, with some even becoming unique demon lords. Defeating these demon lords will help them regain their consciousness, turning them back into their innocent baby forms to fight alongside you.
As a destined Yaoling Keeper, you will venture through the beautiful land alongside your Yaolings, procuring hidden treasures, challenging Schools of Yaoling Keepers, and face off against powerful Demon Lords. You can catch and document Yaolings you encounter, explore different line-ups during battles, or simply fish along the waterbanks. Your journey is for you to unfold!
Knowing the right time and place to use charms is an essential skill for a Yaoling Keeper. Spells casted through charms can both provide buffs and healing for allies, while damaging and crippling enemies. Some are even used to forge bonds with Yaolings. Casting charms outside of battle may bring about many surprises!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 69 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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