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The Next Jianghu I is a single-player martial arts sandbox game. You explore the jianghu, take on challenges, collect martial arts, develop teammates, build a sect and pursue different identities. Its story has hundreds of branches and up to a million words of plot.

Choices and destinies

In the first playthrough, you begin as a small-time wanderer and encounter branching events where your choices shape your fate. The game has more than twenty endings, including outcomes involving the martial arts alliance, the devil overpowering the righteous path, and the East Factory. You can also travel freely outside the main story, make friends and search for treasure across the world.

The description lists several possible starting identities: a village tavern boy, a wealthy playboy from Luoyang, a fallen prince from the imperial city, and a poor scholar from Jiangnan who travels to the capital for the imperial examinations. It also describes a second-playthrough option to build your own sect, with examples including Dragon Hidden Villa and the loyal, righteous Anti-Japanese Beggars' Association. Da Jiang Canal General Association and Shaolin are named as other sects associated with this system.

Sects and companions

The game features 60 jianghu sects, both righteous and evil. Whether you can join a sect or learn its martial arts depends on your actions. You can befriend and develop many jianghu warriors, bring them along on adventures and help them learn advanced martial arts.

You can also pursue relationships with multiple female characters, but must first win their affection. The story does not bind you to a single partner, so you can choose who accompanies you through life.

Martial arts and combat

Combat uses strategic, wargame-style turns. You choose weapons and combine skills freely; the game presents no single martial art as strongest, with the results depending on the person using it and how internal energy and moves work together. Encounters throughout the jianghu bring both danger and opportunity, with choices that can lead to different fates.