Game Science, developer of the massively successful Black Myth Wukong, ended Opening Night Live at Gamescom with the announcement of Black Myth: Zhong Kui, a new story and sequel to Wukong. The game was announced with a trailer that made clear the game was in early development, with no release date on the horizon for the title as of yet.
The sequel solidifies that Black Myth is a series that will explore eastern mythology, rather than one specifically using the Journey to the West or the character of Sun Wukong as a template to tell its stories. Here, players will take the role of Taoist Diety Zhong Kui, who is a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings. Geoff Keighly stated on stage at ONL that “the ghost-catching god who wanders between hell and earth.” Zong Kui is often described as a large man with a big black beard, bulging eyes, and a wrathful expression. We get our first look at him at the end of the trailer.
Black Myth: Zhong Kui will be a single-player experience similar to the first title in the series; however, no gameplay has been outlined as of yet. The first game consisted largely of bosses for the player to overcome, with minor areas between the many, many bosses that needed to be fought, which corresponded to the 81 trials that Sun Wukong had to overcome.
An official blurb from Game Science states:
New Black Myth title — officially unveiled today!
No ghosts walked the earth till born of human heart;
Onstage and off, immortals fall to fiends—their perfected art.
Indoors and out, the judge is bound by the same household ties;
The sun is veiled, the moon unmoved — who decrees who lives and who dies?
I turn from worldly tangles and their codes, from glories smeared with sleight.
I raise my sword — I raise it to fight;
Developed by Game Science, “Black Myth: Zhong Kui” — the second entry in the Black Myth series — was officially unveiled today with its first CG teaser trailer, and simultaneously debuted during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025.
This single-player action role-playing game draws its primary creative inspiration from the famed Chinese folk figure “Zhong Kui.” As the project is still in early development, no in-game footage is available at this time.
For fans of Black Myth: Wukong, which sold 10 million copies in only 3 days, there is more coming in the way of DLC. Geoff Keighley stated after the trailer that the journey for Sun Wukong was not over yet. Rumors earlier this year have suggested a late 2025 or early 2026 release window for an expansion, but there is nothing official as of yet.
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