Where Winds Meet

Where Winds Meet is an action-adventure role-playing game in the wuxia tradition, made by Everstone Studio and published by NetEase Games. It came out worldwide on PlayStation 5 and Windows on November 14, 2025, followed by Android and iOS on December 12, 2025, and Xbox Series X/S on June 7, 2026. Its Chinese title is Yanyun Shiliu Sheng.

The story puts players in the shoes of a wanderer in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Regions of its world include Qinghe, Kaifeng, Hexi, the Hidden Mountain and Qingzhou, and the concept of the jianghu is woven into the setting.

Played from a third-person view, the game lets players customize their character’s looks and clothing and take up professions such as healer or scholar. Weapon types include swords, dual blades, spears, rope darts, fans, umbrellas, mo blades, heng blades and gauntlets, with two equipped at once, and each type ties into its own martial arts. Combat defenses cover dodging, blocking and deflecting, while mystic arts such as Tai Chi work both in fights and out in the open world.

Players can take on solo or multiplayer play, with main story, lost chapter, encounter and exploration quests, plus player versus player arenas, cooperative dungeons, sects and player guilds. The game is free-to-play with monetization centered on cosmetics, and it supports cross-platform play and progression along with several guidance and difficulty options.

Development began in November 2019 on the Messiah Engine at Everstone Studio in Hangzhou, and the game was first shown at Gamescom 2022. Stephen Tung served as martial arts director and Yuen Woo-ping as global action consultant. On Metacritic it holds “mixed or average” reviews, and it passed 100 million players worldwide by August 2026.