Ace of Jianghu

From the Devs

In Ace of Jianghu, you wander the jianghu learning martial arts and choose a Mind Art to support them. A master first cultivates a Mind Art, then builds techniques on that foundation.

Stories and chance encounters await along the road. Your choices can make the same path a struggle or a smooth journey. Once you've chosen, the rest is in Heaven's hands. The fortune stick drawn from the cup decides the outcome.

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.

Win and you learn new techniques. Break through a realm and your sect's Secret Art opens up. Bring a Mind Art to Great Mastery and your whole way of fighting changes. The people you cross stay in your Figures, and what you live through goes into the Jianghu Chronicles.

Every sect fights its own way

• Shaolin — Vajra. The longer you hold, the more it stacks, and the heavier your fist lands.
  
• Wudang — Flow. Force you turn aside or slip away pools up, and what pools comes back on the blade.
  
• Unorthodox Alliance — Scheme. Every blow that draws blood adds to it, and the more it builds, the heavier every strike lands. Let it ripen, then settle the whole account at once.
  
• Heavenly Demon Cult — Inner Demon. The price of the heaviest strike in the game. It eats your attack and your guard — and some arts feed on it.

Break through, unleash your Secret Art

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.

Learn the arts, master the mind

Bring a Mind Art to Great Mastery and you fight a different way: Shaolin's Bodhi Heart turns a 4-hit combo into 8, and the Heavenly Demon Art echoes the two techniques you just used.

Every name has a story

Four heroes, twelve roads. The road you choose changes who you meet and which hidden currents pull you in.

• Figures — the 80-odd people you meet in the jianghu, each name with a story behind it.
  
• Tales of the Jianghu — one card, one martial art, one piece of unofficial history.
  
• Album — the moments of each encounter, gathered one painting at a time.
  
• Jianghu Chronicles — the road you walked, written down.

At the end of the roads, the Nine Heavens wait: a nine-floor climb.

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.