Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Reviews
If you’re hoping for something that shatters expectations or tells a deeply personal story, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers doesn’t quite soar—it just glides comfortably in familiar skies.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers doesn’t rewrite the Souls-like rulebook, but it does enough to stand apart through clever combat mechanics, a flexible progression system, and memorable encounters. While technical hiccups and a sometimes overly familiar structure hold it back from true greatness, it remains a rewarding and engaging journey for fans of the genre – one that’s well worth enduring a few rough edges to experience. And when the technical issues get fixed? You can add a point on to my score.
Despite a steep learning curve and some overlooked polish, Wuchang Fallen Feathers stands as a deeply atmospheric and mechanically rich soulslike. It’s an open world that rewards exploration, and its layered combat keeps each encounter tense and tactical. For players who enjoy refining their approach and surviving merciless odds, this is a standout title that balances brutality with beauty. With creative flexibility, rich lore, and complex progression systems, Wuchang Fallen Feathers earns its place among the genre’s more memorable entries.
There's a comfortable familiarity to Wuchang: Fallen Feathers that most Souls-like fans will love – despite its excessive exposition, the game delivers on the promise of a polished, well-rounded experience that rewards players for exploring their preferred playstyle instead of shoehorning each player into the same experience.
Not revolutionary and not groundbreaking, yet fully entertaining, complex, and at times even thrilling. Wuchang certainly does not disgrace its genre—it honors the rules, cleverly innovates, and delivers a functional experience with brutal action and a tear-jerking narrative. Our Chinese colleagues have once again cooked up a quality dish.
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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is one of the better soulslike games currently available. With its intriguing world, fluid combat, high replayability, and variety of play styles, this adventure is definitely worth playing.
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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers doesn’t try to rewrite the genre. It sticks to what works: tight melee combat, atmospheric world design, and challenging boss fights. But it adds its own cultural flavor and does a better job than expected for a debut title. The story’s forgettable, the ranged/magic systems are thin, and some polish is missing—but those flaws are easy to overlook once you’re locked in, dodging through deadly combos and landing brutal counters. If you’re a fan of Sekiro, Lies of P, or Wo Long, this one’s worth your attention. It’s not perfect, but it’s confident, stylish, and—most importantly—fun to play.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a solid Souls-like game that offers several unique additions to differentiate it from traditional Souls games, without straying too far from the classic formula.
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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is not for the faint-hearted. If super tough, complex gameplay is what you’re after, WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is definitely going to challenge you.
The low-resolution textures don't detract from the sheer beauty of Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. Being a proud Souls-like game, it offers challenging combat — with unpleasant difficulty spikes — and exploration through interconnected environments, but character progression goes beyond the genre's formula, featuring a large skill tree that centralizes the various aspects of evolution and can be redefined at will to modify your approach and experiment with different builds.
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Efforts to build its own identity work well at times, but suffer from some technical weaknesses that prevent it from reaching another level, compounded by graphics that fall short of expectations on the PS5 Pro.
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Well, I feel confident when I say WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers will be a great challenge for Souls-like fans. Learning combat and utilising spells was the main focus for me. I loved swapping out armour and adjusting my build so next time I won’t get one-shot by the best this time. And that has happened to me. Unlike other games, where I’d have my shield or dodging was much easier in comparison. The level areas in WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers feel a little too mazy for my liking. With some sections feeling too much the same, although this isn’t the actual case. My best example of this is the Avarian Woods. There are a lot of slow elevators in the game, which becomes annoying, more so when trying to get back to a boss room you just lost. This is a little bit of a rant. But! A massive problem I had was the lack of axes in the game. I have used the second axe the game gives you since I got it. And after all the bosses I’ve beaten and areas I’ve explored, there hasn’t been another damn axe. I got four long swords, five dual blades, and four spears. The DLC weapon I received is classed as one, but gameplay wise naaah, nothing. In the end, despite the axe problem, WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is an excellent game with a beautifully crafted world. Excellent combat that forces you out of your comfort zone and pushes you to try new approaches. So, to maybe no one’s surprise, I’ll be awarding it the Thumb Culture Platinum Award.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a sprawling game for better and for worse. It has a lot to like: story, art design, and environment-wise. But it comes with a lot of combat caveats and an upgrade and progression system that just doesn’t know when to stop expanding and complicating things.
While not entirely revolutionary, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a standout Soulslike that truly captures the essence of the genre with impressive depth and originality. While its steep difficulty and vague quest structure may intimidate newcomers, it still serves as a strong entry point for non-Souls fans craving for a challenge. Leenzee’s mastery of the formula, combined with rich dark fantasy lore and varied builds, makes it a compelling addition to the overcrowded genre, capable of making even veteran Souls players break a sweat.
As a Soulslike action RPG, Wuchang releases into a crowded market for this genre, but luckily, it delivers distinctly agile and challenging combat, accompanied by mostly brilliant boss encounters, excellent RPG mechanics, and a gorgeous, detailed world and presentation steeped in Chinese history, mythology, culture, and philosophy. These elements form the basis of Wuchang’s premise and plot, but sadly, its delivery is oftentimes underwhelming and, in some cases, notably worse.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a beautiful looking game set in a Chinese dark fantasy setting that feels and plays like a proper dark souls game. I’ve entirely enjoyed playing through the game, especially in the second half and I must recommend it to all fans of the genre.
All in all, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a decent action RPG that's worth adding to your Soulslike collection when you're done with From Software's finest and noteworthy clones like Lies of P. If you already hated the genre, you're not going to find anything here to convince you otherwise.
The way combat is different and largely enjoyable, the deep build options provided by an extensive skill tree with varied weapons and spells, and a robust world design that has some rough edges, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers emerges from the darkness as a strong contender that livens up the space. As a debut title, this is more than an impressive showing, and with time, it won't be a surprise to see this title soar even higher as more players get to grips with its uniqueness and approach.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is an all-around fun Soulslike experience despite some rough edges. It is certifiably challenging with a plethora of builds available, which rewards patience and split-second timing.
We might have liked "Wuchang: Fallen Feathers" a little more if the introduction hadn't been so mixed. After the first boss, however, the game improves considerably, offering pleasantly fast-paced, powerful action, largely successful level design, cool bosses, and a motivating progression system.
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