"The Legend Of Zen Town" is a classic turn-based RPG driven by an unfolding narrative. Explore a world that blending Chinese folklore with vibrant street culture, hidden right under the nose of a modern city. Uncover its supernatural mysteries and navigate an ancient world of secrets and martial arts – all brought to life by its captivating story and striking art style.
✨ Key Features
1. Modern Urban-Fantasy with Chinese Supernatural Themes
A rare blend of traditional Chinese mythology and gritty modern life, inspired by real folk beliefs like spirit possession, exorcism, and ancient rituals.
2. Cultural Art Style with Depth
Visuals merge 1970s Chinese architecture, neon-lit backstreets, and spiritual symbols—creating a grounded yet eerie atmosphere in the fictional city of Zen Town.
3. Narrative-Driven Exploration & Mystery Solving
More than just combat—interrogate NPCs, examine clues, and use “spirit sight” to solve layered supernatural cases and uncover the city’s hidden truths.
4. Multiple Endings Based on Your Choices
Your actions shape the fate of Zen Town. Choose who to trust, what to sacrifice, and whether to confront or escape your destiny. No ending is truly good or bad—only consequences.
5. Immersive Audio & Original Eastern-Inspired Soundtrack
Experience atmospheric sound design featuring guqin, temple bells, and modern electronic tones that blend tradition with mystery.
Gameplay Mechanics
1. Classic Turn-Based Combat
Engage in strategic, turn-based battles against supernatural foes. Master each character’s unique skills, use items wisely, and plan team combos to survive deadly encounters.
2. "Spirit Sight" Investigation System
The protagonist’s ability to see the spirit world allows players to uncover hidden clues, detect cursed zones, and interact with entities invisible to ordinary people.
3. Seven-Day Countdown
The story unfolds over seven days. Every day matters—your choices, actions, and discoveries directly affect the outcome.
4. Branching Quests Inspired by Chinese Lore
Beyond the main story, explore numerous side quests based on Chinese superstitions, folk deities, and urban legends—like corpse revival, ghost temples, and yin-yang pathways.
5. Companions and Relationship Bonds
Travel with unique allies, including a stoic Taoist priestess and a mysterious brawler. Strengthen bonds through dialogue and battle to unlock special events and combo skills.
Hang, a sales manager with a hidden gift for seeing the unseen, moonlights as a special consultant solving supernatural cases. During one investigation with a Taoist priestess, a violent explosion erupts—involving multiple factions—leaving Hang critically injured.
He awakens the next day to a shocking twist: he, the priestess, and a mysterious, burly youth are now wanted criminals, publicly accused of stealing a sacred relic. The youth reveals they must recover the relic lost that night: a crucial ritual involving it begins in seven days—a ritual deeply connected to the priestess's own fate.
With one week to clear their names, retrieve the relic, and alter their destiny, a desperate race against time begins...
"Fengshan" was an ancient imperial ritual where emperors offered sacrifices to Heaven. Though this story takes place in a modern city with no emperors, it is still intimately connected to this ancient ceremony. Behind the ritual lies a web of mystery, fantasy, and conflict. The word "Ji" (记) means "record" or "chronicle" much like a travel journal. As players explore the open city and unfold the plot step by step, they will uncover the hidden truths. That’s what we aim to present — a modern urban fantasy RPG full of supernatural intrigue and eerie folklore.
[Zen Town]
Zen Town is a fictional coastal metropolis with a population of five million. The city features a unique blend of traditional Chinese architecture and old buildings from the 1970s and 1980s. The urban layout mixes bustling areas with extensive, aging residential districts, where most streets are lined with buildings over 30 years old.
Roughly three-quarters of Zen Town is composed of working-class neighborhoods, with the remainder being modern, more prosperous districts. Regardless of social class, the residents of Zen Town share a deep-rooted belief in folk religion. Shrines and temples are scattered throughout the city, and it’s common to see incense burning on sidewalks and offerings made to local deities — part of everyday life in this spiritually saturated metropolis.
Though Zen Town has generally been peaceful, a series of bizarre incidents begin to occur. Residents suddenly go mad and die on the spot. These cases are usually dismissed as rabies or acute psychosis leading to organ failure. However, autopsies reveal something far more disturbing: the victims continued to move even after death, showing signs of temporary reanimation.
With no medical history to support such explanations, and several cases happening simultaneously, the investigations stall. That’s when Hang is urgently brought in as a special agent for supernatural cases — despite his limited prior involvement in such matters.
Hang is summoned to the morgue, where his mission is to communicate with the corpse of one of the victims. From this moment, the story truly begins...
