Live the cultivator's life you've read about: test your spirit root, rise from odd-jobs disciple to elder, brew pills, forge artifacts, delve secret realms, court a dao companion — from Qi Refining to Ascension, in a procedural or hand-built world. A turn-based roguelite: fall, reincarnate, ascend.
One thought to immortal, one thought to demon.
You've read a hundred cultivation novels. Now live one — a full cultivator's life, from the day the testing stone reads your spirit root to the day you ascend.
Why you'll love it
🧬 It all begins with your spirit root — Step onto the testing stone and learn your fate: a single-element root cultivates a thousand miles a day, while a mixed five-element root walks the hardest, most rewarding path. Your innate gift shapes the entire run.
🗺️ A cultivation world that is yours — Every world is a hand-painted-style tile map, procedurally generated — righteous and demonic sects, cities, markets, dens, ancient battlefields and secret realms. Or open the Map Atelier and build your own continent: place every sect, every city, every secret realm exactly where you dreamed it.
⚡ From Qi Refining to Ascension — Meditate, enter seclusion, and defy heaven's tribulation lightning at every breakthrough: Qi Refining, Foundation, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Severing — all the way to ascension. Lifespan ticks in real time; every year in seclusion is a year closer to your final calamity.
🏯 A real sect career — Start as an odd-jobs disciple and climb: outer, inner, core disciple, elder — even sect master. Run sect missions for contribution points, exchange them for techniques in the Scripture Pavilion, draw a monthly stipend, and study alchemy, forging and talismans across the sect's many peaks.
💞 Friends, rivals, and a dao companion — Every fellow disciple has a name, a temperament and a story. Chat them up, give gifts they actually like, adventure together — and when affection runs deep, confess and take a dao companion (they may refuse!). Cross the wrong cultivator and gain a nemesis who hunts you for years. Exchange jade slips to keep friends one message away.
💰 Fortuitous encounters everywhere — Delve free-roaming secret realms, loot storage bags off defeated foes and reveal treasures piece by piece, raid beast dens, flip goods between city markets, splurge at live auctions against AI bidders, and sip tea in the teahouse to hear which secret realm just opened. Equip a natal artifact and grow your hoard.
🧓 New to cultivation? Ask Grandpa Ring — A guardian spirit in your ring answers questions and nudges you along, a built-in cultivation encyclopedia explains every realm, herb and artifact, and an achievement wall of medals marks every first — your first beast slain, the day you reached Foundation Establishment.
🎲 Fall, reincarnate, ascend — A turn-based roguelite: death is permanent, but your Dao-insight carries into the next life as meta-progression. No two runs are alike — until at last, you ascend.
What you can do
Explore a procedural tile world map — or design your own in the built-in Map Atelier (terrain, rivers, roads, sects, cities, secret realms; import/export maps)
Join sects of named NPCs with traits, relationships and ranks; climb from odd-jobs disciple to elder and beyond
Fight turn-based battles with techniques, spells, talismans, a natal artifact, equipment and status effects
Cultivate, enter seclusion, and survive heaven-defying tribulations under real-time lifespan pressure
Brew pills in the alchemy room, forge artifacts on the Skyworks Peak, buy talismans at market
Delve free-roaming secret realms, raid beast dens and bandit camps, scavenge ancient battlefields, gamble on black-market blind boxes
Bid at live auctions against AI rivals; flip goods between city markets; hear rumors in the teahouse
Befriend, gift, party up, court a dao companion — or make a lifelong nemesis; trade jade slips with fellow cultivators
Learn as you play with Grandpa Ring's guidance, the in-game encyclopedia, and a medal wall of achievements
Die, reincarnate with Dao-insight meta-progression, and chase ascension across many lives
Built for
Readers of xianxia / cultivation novels who want to live that life themselves — test your spirit root, join a sect, chase fortuitous encounters, and ascend. Also for roguelite and turn-based RPG players who love deep, systemic games: fans of Amazing Cultivation Simulator, Slay the Spire and Loop Hero.
Languages & features
Playable in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Fully offline, single-player — all saves and progress stay on your device.
Official site
On Steam
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