"Monkey King: Five Elements Survival" is a puzzle game with a backstory rooted in the Chinese mythical story "Journey to the West". The game machanic is inspired by the ancient Chinese philosophical concept of Wuxing (five elements), where elements promote and suppress each others in cycle.
All Reviews:
No user reviews
Release Date:
Jun 27, 2025
Developer:
Publisher:

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored

This game is not yet available on Steam

Planned Release Date: Jun 27, 2025

This game plans to unlock in approximately 6 weeks

Interested?
Add to your wishlist and get notified when it becomes available.
Add to your wishlist
 

About This Game

Introduction

Taishang Laojun threw the monkey king in his alchemy furnace in hope that it will kill the indestructible monkey. The monkey has to keep moving, but everytime he moves, the space in the furnace becomes less accessible. Use arrow keys to move the monkey and help him survive longer as less and less space are available.

Game Machanics

There are five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Metal counters wood, wood counters earth, earth counters water, water counters fire, and fire counters metal.

Everytime you move, The block at your previous location will get destroyed, and depending on the direction you are moving to, all blocks will try to move in the same direction and destroy at most 1 adjacent block in that direction if its element is being countered. In addition, every game (level) the monkey will be assigned with an element. If you step on a block that counters your element or there is no direction you can move, the game is over.

Game Modes

The game has two modes with the same machanics but different win conditions, which totally change how you play.

Puzzle Mode

In this mode, you'll be solving pre-designed puzzle mazes. There are one or more exits to each maze, and the mazes might look easy at first, but things get tricky as every time you move blocks get pushed around and destroyed. You are gonna need to learn how to ultilze the block movement and element countering mechanic in your favor, in order to reach the goal.

Survival Mode

In this mode, you need to survive as many steps as you can on the randomly generated board, while every move you make, fewer blocks become available. There is no exit, so death is certain, but the time is not, all you can do is help the monkey king live longer.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 or Later
    • Processor: x64
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core M
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Storage: 200 MB available space
    Recommended:
    There are no reviews for this product

    You can write your own review for this product to share your experience with the community. Use the area above the purchase buttons on this page to write your review.