Swire Future

Swire Future is an open-world game spanning ancient mythology and future science fiction. Its systems combine character combat and progression with village management, interactions, missions and battles over villages. The world can be expanded as far as your hard drive allows, and you can edit the plots of land.

Characters and combat

The game’s framework includes 10 occupations. Six are assigned to random characters, while fixed characters are drawn from Chinese mythology, including fairies, monsters, ghosts and beasts. NPCs use the same kinds of systems as player-controlled characters, including equipment, skills, items, diseases, physiology, professional skills and relationships. Their behavior depends on their physical and psychological states, family circumstances and intimate relationships.

You control the character’s body and hands through a physics-based animation and action system, choosing attacks and skills for each hand. Combat includes three attack methods, five kinds of melee attacks, 30 ranged attacks and 40 skill attacks. The game also includes 850 pieces of equipment, with blue, gold, dark gold and shining tiers, and attributes such as strength, intelligence, agility, critical-hit chance and damage, elemental attack and resistance, and skill bonuses. Gems include skill stones and teleport stones: teleport stones let you travel around the Earth, Hell, the fairy world and the world of beasts, while another stone lets you travel from ancient times to the future.

You can recruit 10 kinds of mercenaries at a hotel, or recruit any character into your team through interactions. Select a team member by clicking their avatar. The game also includes mercenary, team, attribute and skill systems.

Build and manage villages

You can build vehicles in different shapes, equip them with different weapons and power sources, and connect them with physics links to form combined vehicles for attacking other villages. You can attack and occupy nearly 400 villages. After taking one, you can edit its map, plant crops, raise animals, build government buildings and add businesses such as brothels, hotels and hospitals. You can furnish these buildings and interact with characters there, including gambling for money.

As village chief, you set policies for defense, money and agriculture, and can use village funds to improve defenses. The treasury cannot be overdrawn because characters receive wages according to their roles. Village income depends on its management and construction; poor management can leave wages unpaid, sharply reduce villagers’ loyalty and lead them to betray the village.

Interactions and village threats

NPCs have professions and personal lives, and the game includes 28 ways to interact with them. Their needs include eating, drinking and sleeping; when they lack money, they can have work-related interactions. Their mood and morality influence whether their interactions are good or evil.

A demon king randomly invades villages. Characters in an invaded village attack you, and you must keep fighting there until its defense reaches zero. Once you rescue it, the demon king finds another village and grows stronger, continuing the war.

Scripture and missions

The Journey to the West scripture is divided into more than 3,000 pages, distributed randomly among characters. Characters drop scriptures when killed; collecting them improves your cultivation. Planting and breeding also contribute to the game’s management systems.

Fixed missions include learning through experience and defeat, collecting equipment and attacking the village demon. Random missions let you compete against several characters in activities such as finding the real Banana Fan, a Cuju contest, compass survival and helping the Supreme Master find an elixir. You can also help Bi Mawen collect animals and plants.