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Every answer carries its evidence status. Four of the nine are still some version of “not announced”.
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Where nothing has been confirmed, this page says so rather than filling the space. If an answer here contradicts a specification table you have seen elsewhere, the difference is usually that the table is guessing.
There is no release date and no release window. Game Science has not announced one, and as of 27 August 2026 the game is still described by the studio as being in early development.Game ScienceOfficial videoGematsuRPGamer
Full pagePC and consoles. Game Science has said PC and mainstream console platforms, but has never named a specific console, and no Steam or Epic Games Store page exists yet.Game ScienceGematsuDSOGaming
Full pageUnknown. The playable character has not been named, and Game Science has not stated his relationship to the Zhong Kui of Chinese folklore. The previous game was titled for Sun Wukong but cast the player as a different character, so the title alone does not settle it.Game ScienceOfficial video
Full pageIt is the next game in the Black Myth series from the same studio, announced as Game Science’s new title at gamescom Opening Night Live in August 2025. No story connection to the previous game has been announced.Game ScienceOfficial videoVGCGematsu
Full pageOne 15-minute gameplay trailer, published on 20 August 2026. Game Science stated that all footage was captured in-game from a work-in-progress build running at a 21:9 aspect ratio, and that the final game may differ.Official videoVGC
Full pageNo. Game Science described the six-minute in-engine short as non-canon and for entertainment purposes only, and unrelated to the main storyline. It is useful for judging visual direction and not usable as story evidence.Official videoGematsuKotaku
Full pageUnreal Engine 5, according to reporting on the gameplay reveal. Game Science confirmed the footage was captured at a 21:9 aspect ratio, which outlets have taken to indicate a PC build.DSOGamingVGC
Full pageNo source supports any specific year. Those dates circulate widely, including inside specification tables, but none of them trace back to a statement from Game Science. The only schedule information the studio has given is that the game is in early development.Gematsu
Full pageNo. There is no preorder, no listed price, and no store page on Steam or the Epic Games Store. Any site offering a preorder for this game is not selling an official product.DSOGaming
Full pageCorrections
This page is reviewed against the official channels rather than rewritten when a rumour appears. If an answer here is stale — an announcement we missed, a store page that has since gone up — the correction address is on the about page, and the change will be dated when it lands.
Answers are updated in place, not duplicated into new articles.
Sources
“PC+主流主机平台，正式信息请以发售前通知为准。”
Chinese-language page, rendered client-side. Its 常见问题 (FAQ) tab is the first-party record for the platform line — “PC and mainstream console platforms, official information subject to the pre-release announcement”. No specific console, storefront or date appears anywhere on it.
“As the game is still in early development, all footage was captured in-game from a work-in-progress build running at a 21:9 aspect ratio. The final release may differ.”
The 15-minute reveal this archive breaks down. Embedded, not re-hosted. The quote is from the video’s own description — it is the first-party origin of the “early development” and “work-in-progress build” lines that Gematsu and VGC both carry. The description also calls the player character only “the protagonist”.
“As the game is still in early development, all footage was captured in-game from a work-in-progress build”
Dated 19 Aug 2026 US Eastern time; the video went out 20 Aug 2026 China time.
“all footage was captured in-game from a work-in-progress build running at a 21:9 aspect ratio”
Quotes a Game Science statement posted on X. Also reports PC and “major consoles”, no date.
“is in development for PC and consoles, and does not yet have a release window”
Describes the footage as “a mixture of event scenes and combat against apparent undead foes”.
“Game Science has not even launched a store page for this game on Steam or the Epic Games Store.”
Also reports Unreal Engine 5, and infers a PC capture from the 21:9 aspect ratio.
Reveal took place at gamescom Opening Night Live, Cologne, 19 August 2025 CEST.
“non-canon and for entertainment purposes only”
Six minutes of in-engine footage made for the Year of the Horse. Not a story preview.
“This six-minute short film, created entirely in-engine, depicts the most extraordinary…cooking you’ve ever seen.”
Reports the studio labelling the short “non-canon” and “unrelated to the main storyline”.
Links open the original page. We quote and link rather than re-host, and record the date each source was last opened.