Litter ShiFu

Litter ShiFu is a mystery adventure and puzzle game centered on Chinese folk horror. You play as Zhang Qingyi, an 18-year-old Taoist practitioner who enters the mist-shrouded old town of Changming on the eve of the Ghost Festival to investigate five deadly supernatural incidents.

Story

In Changming, incense at the City God Temple has never gone out. A saying passed down for generations warns that on the night of the Ghost Festival, the boundary between life and death falls into chaos. Years earlier, Taoist Zhang Qishan sacrificed himself to suppress an ancient evil, leaving his son a deadly game of fate.

On the eve of the Ghost Festival in 2005, five vengeful spirits begin claiming lives, drawing Zhang Qingyi into a struggle between the living and the dead. As spirit money drifts through the streets and the mist thickens, he uses the ritual tools his father left behind to investigate the dead’s obsessions and try to break a trap woven by gods, ghosts and humans. The threat reaches beyond wandering spirits, and the story follows a young man forced to face his destiny amid Chinese folk beliefs.

Explore Changming

Ghostly mist covers the town’s old streets, abandoned homes, ancestral halls and temples, which hold stories from the past. You explore freely, gather clues, solve mechanisms and uncover the truth. Old photographs, forgotten letters and broken statues can reveal new chains of cause and consequence.

The order in which you explore and the ritual tools you find affect later encounters and the direction of the story. You choose the path toward breaking the curse as the gates of the underworld begin to open.

Investigate the cases

The story follows five major supernatural cases and multiple side stories. Each case centers on a different lingering obsession and folk taboo. You visit varied locations, collect old objects, solve mechanisms and reconstruct the circumstances of each death as you work toward the truth behind Changming’s accumulated grudges, debts and consequences.

Rituals and puzzles

The cases use distinct gameplay styles, including spirit summoning, medicine preparation, ghost interrogation, gambling with fate and breaking ritual formations. These activities accompany the investigation and puzzle-solving throughout the game.