About This Demo

Zhong Kui Survivor Demo is a free top-down survivor-like action roguelite set in Chinese ghost lore. You play as Zhong Kui, the legendary demon queller, on a full Act 1 night patrol: waves of yaoguai close in from every side, ritual weapons attack automatically, and you focus on movement, dodging, upgrade choices, and route decisions—until you defeat the Act 1 ghost king.

This is not an endless arena. Each run begins on a night-patrol map where you choose between combat rooms, elite encounters, rest sites, strange events, relic rewards, and the boss gate. Safer paths and riskier paths both matter: clear a room, collect incense gold and XP, then decide where to go next. Your goals are concrete—light soul lanterns, survive denser ghost tides, and suppress the Act 1 gatekeeper toad Chuyuan.

Combat is built around automatic attacks plus manual positioning. Start with one ritual weapon, then pick upgrades that add weapons, boost stats, or grant relics. Blades, bows, bombs, lightning, darts, and more create different tempos; under the right conditions, weapons can evolve into stronger forms. You must balance crowd clear, survivability, lantern objectives, and boss pressure—standing still is rarely enough.

Act 1 introduces Chinese-inspired foes such as cloth-trouser ghosts, Bifang, Xuhao, and Scholar She, plus elite fiends and a ghost-king fight. Enemies mix melee swarms, ranged harassment, and special patterns that force repositioning. After victories, the monster codex records portraits and folklore-style lore for Act 1 entries available in the demo.

Between runs, loot feeds early meta progression: soul currency, herbs, ores, and drops open cave alchemy, catalog collecting, and spirit-pet growth so the next patrol feels stronger. The demo focuses on a complete Act 1 loop so you can feel both in-run builds and long-term cultivation.

What's included in this Demo

- Full Act 1 patrol map with route choices (combat / elite / rest / event / reward / boss)

- Survivor-like combat: auto-attacking weapons, dodging, and level-up choices

- Multi-weapon builds and evolution paths available in the Act 1 pool

- Relic rewards, soul-lantern objectives, and the Act 1 ghost-king fight

- Chinese myth-themed enemies and bestiary entries for Act 1

- Early access to cave alchemy, catalogs, and spirit pets (demo-depth systems)

Clear condition: defeat Act 1 ghost king Chuyuan.

The full game unlocks later acts, more yaoguai and bosses, deeper evolution/supreme weapon routes, and fuller meta systems. If you enjoy the demo, please wishlist the main game.

Who is this for

Players who like Vampire Survivors-style movement and builds, but want Chinese folklore art, route-based roguelite decisions, and single-player top-down action with both short runs and long-term growth.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some in-game pixel art sprites, enemy/character visuals, VFX frames, and certain store capsule/key art assets were created or assisted with generative AI image tools (e.g. PixelLab / similar) during development, then curated and edited by the developer for the final game.
There is no live/runtime AI generation. AI coding assistants (if any) are development-only and not disclosed as player-facing content.