Paper Xian

Paper Xian is a roguelike survival strategy game set in a world of Eastern cultivation. You play as a cultivator fighting through waves of beasts, developing your abilities and seeking to ascend toward immortality. Characters and environments look like three-dimensional paper carvings, with shifting light and shadow shaping the fantasy world.

Cultivation and combat

You gain experience and level up as you fight. Cultivation progresses through Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Core Formation, Nascent Soul and higher realms; each realm has early, mid and late phases. Advancing a minor stage increases your stats, while breaking through a major stage unlocks abilities in the talent tree. Divine arts, spells and magical artifacts give you ways to fight the incoming beasts.

Between enemy waves, you enter the Rest Realm and spend Spirit Essence to prepare for the next attack. You can study spells, forge artifacts, practice techniques, join sects, explore trials and tame spirit beasts. Sects offer their own resources, while your chosen cultivation technique shapes your path and fighting style.

Artifacts and spirit pets

You can merge and upgrade treasures to create more powerful artifacts. Spirit pets can evolve into higher forms and fuse with other pets to gain entirely new powers. The game also includes legendary artifacts, mystical abilities, powerful techniques, random events and a variety of items.

Characters

Characters support different playstyles, including charging into combat as a tank, taking hits directly, sniping from a distance, generating resources or dealing damage as a caster-tank.