Chinese studio GameScience, creators of Black Myth: Wukong, formally revealed their upcoming action RPG “Black Myth: Zhong Kui” at Gamescom Opening Night Live on August 20, 2025.
Black Myth: Zhong Kui serves as the second installment in the Black Myth franchise, presenting a single-player action role-playing experience grounded in ancient Chinese mythology. Developed by GameScience using Unreal Engine 5, the game draws inspiration from the traditional Chinese legend “Zhong Kui Banishing Evil”.
The development team promises unique gameplay mechanics and experiences that challenge their creative boundaries, while incorporating innovative concepts and improvements designed to resolve previous shortcomings and unfulfilled ambitions.
About Zhong Kui
The story of Zhong Kui was first recorded in “Tang Yishi” (“Unofficial History of the Tang Dynasty”) and gained wider circulation through Northern Song scholar Shen Kuo’s (1031–1095) “Dream Pool Essays”. Born on Mount Zhongnan, Zhong Kui travelled to Chang’an during Emperor Gaozu’s Wude reign to sit the imperial military examination but failed. In despair, he struck his head on the palace steps and died. Grateful for the green burial robe (the attire of lower-ranking officials, a token of imperial recognition) bestowed by Gaozu, he vowed to rid the Tang realm of every Xuhao (Chinese: 虚耗, Xūhào, meaning “wasteful expenditure” and “consuming blessings for nothing”) ghosts and harmful spectres.During the Kaiyuan era of the Tang dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong fell ill, and a month of treatment brought no relief. One night, while asleep in sickness, he dreamed of a small ghost slipping into the palace to steal Consort Yang’s embroidered sachet and his own jade flute. The ghost called itself Xuhao, a bringer of waste and disperser of blessings. Just as the emperor was about to summon someone to expel it, Zhong Kui rushed into the hall, seized the creature in one swift motion, gouged out its eyes, and swallowed them whole. The emperor awoke drenched in a cold sweat—only to find his illness cured.Taking this as an auspicious omen, Xuanzong ordered the court painter Wu Daozi to create “Zhong Kui Capturing the Ghost”. From then on, it became customary to paste images of Zhong Kui on household doors at year’s end, especially on New Year’s Eve, to “banish baleful wraiths, and still the miasma of evil”.
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