Earthling's Undertaking

Earthling's Undertaking combines cultivation RPG progression, sect management and tactical turn-based battles. You play as the leader of a declining sect, traveling through the mysterious Primordial World, developing your sect and seeking immortality. As you investigate why the world’s natural order has tilted, you uncover a conspiracy behind the immortals and try to break free of fate.

The story begins a thousand years after the disaster known as the Heaven-Splitting Calamity. Gonggong struck Mount Buzhou in anger, tearing the sky and throwing the Primordial World into turmoil. To preserve the world, the immortals sealed away the vulnerable Yunmeng Continent, cutting it off from the rest of the world. A thousand years later, a mysterious old man leaves you a clue while you are inspecting the mountains, setting the story in motion.

Shape your leader

At the start, you can choose a preset character with special traits or customize your sect leader. The character system includes personality, traits, spiritual roots and starting cultivation manuals.

Cultivation and crafting

Cultivation includes Daoist arts, shamanic practices, talismans and body refinement. More than 200 manuals and spell books are available, each containing two spells for characters to learn and cultivate; you can also change their spell focus as needed. You gather materials to brew restorative, supportive and breakthrough pills, and craft powerful weapons and treasures.

Characters advance through 10 cultivation levels comprising more than 25 stages. By reaching the required cultivation and gathering materials, they can break through their limits, progressing from mortal and Foundation Building to surviving tribulations and reaching the Primordial Saint realm.

Story and companions

Choices shape the story, and you can recruit figures from mythology as sect guests or disciples. As you train them, you witness mythic events unfold. Random events and moral decisions also affect how the Primordial World develops, while the story includes tales such as the Battle of Zhuolu, Yu the Great controlling the floods, Hou Yi shooting down the suns, restoring the Shang and Zhou, and establishing the Investiture of the Gods again.

Manage your sect

You develop the sect by choosing its destiny, making use of functional buildings, completing commissions and raising its reputation. You can explore the wilderness and recruit disciples to strengthen your forces. When dealing with other sects, you choose a diplomatic approach: pursue peaceful relations, plunder them or destroy them. At times, you may have to make difficult choices to protect your own sect.

Explore the Primordial World

As the story unfolds, you travel across the Primordial World, encountering random events and opportunities that can reward you with treasures and cultivation manuals. Exploration can also bring dangers, including rampaging monsters and attacks by evil cultivators. More than 20 fixed locations and many randomly discovered points of interest contain mechanisms and other hazards, with rewards that come at a risk.

The world map also contains sects, cities and settlements. In settlements, you can talk with NPCs for information, accept quests and trade for supplies. You can also offer a city protection in exchange for its tribute.

Tactical battles

Combat uses turn-based tactics built around a timeline, where events can quickly turn the tide of battle. You can collect cultivation manuals, forge powerful weapons and brew rare pills as you build your strength and explore the game’s systems.