Amazing Cultivation Simulator

Just look at my playtime

its alright

Had this on my wishlist for a while, sadly the tutorial is broken in several parts freezing the game, had to alt-f4 out....

In pursuit of immortality, my PP fell off. So I used it to pulverise the bodies of my foes.
Whether they enjoyed their final moments? We may never know.

Fun game put in all my hours in a two week span translations can be al little rough but very enjoyable if you take the time to learn evrything.

this is a amazing game for single players

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Gameplay before graphics.

Uhh, I'm not an addict. I SWEAR I'm NOT.

Number go up! Very nice.

what the fuck is going on. 10/10.

Came back to this game a while after first buying and playing it, can't say I've made it anywhere to any degree whatsoever but I can say this much: if you enjoy seeing progress finally pay off after a long time of cluelessly trying to do the right thing, you should give the game a shot!

I have 600+ hours on GOG, then i bought it again here for the much easier modding. Game is amazing and i can't recommend it enough. Be aware that it's difficult starting out. lot's to learn

Chinese Dwarf Fortress, but add in Elemental Tai Chi

So I've racked up my hours on cultivation simulator and I think I'm gonna give it a soft recommend. It's like a weird hybrid of Rimworld, Pokemon, and old flash RPGs. It's obtuse, and weird, and it's based on ancient chinese alchemy that was disproven like 800 years ago or something but it's charming and there's a lot of kooky and fun interactions. The writing is translated not well, not so poorly that there's much confusion aside from "Qi Range" and "Qi Distance" but not so well that any of the I'm sure flowery metaphors, references, and asides make any actual sense to me. Still, it's possible to make a poop, invest incredible time and energy into converting that poo into a living breathing human, then guide them on a path to ascend to godhood from their admittedly shitty beginnings and I think that's neat.

There is a lot to love about this game. There is a unique rimworld-like main interface, you use Feng Shui to build cultivation rooms, the world is a good wuxia/xianxia setting with plenty of things to do.

Unfortunately, the core concept of the game is not done well. You spend the entire game building your characters up into invincible fighting gods - and there is basically nothing to fight. While a good Xianxia story combines fighting and cultivation, this game is 99% cultivation until the very end, when you are thrown into a difficult fight and you have either made your dudes powerful enough to win or you die.

It's just a weird balance and ultimately unsatisfying - spending dozens of hours making the best fighters possible but never actually fighting anything.

I get mad at buildings with more than one door now.

For clarity, I reviewed negatively on Xbox as it was a terrible port at the time but the game itself is one of my favourite time crunches so it's only fair to do a review here too. Can confirm issues with Xbox port don't exist on Steam version.

This game takes a lot of time and patience but figuring it all out is part of the fun; if you're into donghua or wuxia type stories then this is your kind of game. It was made by a small team so it can be limited at times (more of a settlement manager than a cultivation simulator but it's still there) but the detail in building up a sect and at the same time managing the different kinds of cultivators is well done, not overwhelming but definitely a lot to keep track of.

You will need google and the Wiki a lot, there's also a community discord for more hands-on assistance; honestly some of the documentation is either outdated or worded in a weird way but in taking your own notes and comparing it all starts to come together in cool ways. Mods are supported, and many of the Chinese ones have been translated, making the overall experience pretty solid. There's also an in-game menu (realms) to create your own custom or hacked items/characters to play any way you want with any start you can think of but i'll warn you it gets pretty technical and mathy, mixed with over-complicated translations, once again once you've read into it and done it a few times it's easy. Also many of the translation issues have been dealt with through game updates or community mods.

Personally the feature of Feng Shui management, and the way a room is crafted effects it's usefulness, aren't brand new mechanics, but unique enough that I'm more or less addicted. Definitely worth the money if you're into Chinese cultivation, settlement management, or watching numbers get higher because you did a thing.

i dont get it. I literally just use mods and prayers. I feel like god but like you know, old testament, like wtf do i even do, these people are idots. Seriously i modded and OP character and he still got wrecked by idiots...sound familiar?

yes, i very much recommend this game, i just dont want to suffer alone, please suffer with me.

Well its too good to stop now!!!

I have learned way to much stuff about Chinese mythology and feng shui from this game. 10/10

fun game

negative review for a management game not being single character is some dubious activity

Amazing game and very captivating if you spare some time to do a bit of research on some concepts. Talking to npc's to find more about the story is very janky and translation is weak. But if you don't care about the story much (which is also time-sensitive in game) it's quite interesting game.

I would love to recommend this game to other players.

I can also fully recommend the game to chinese-speaking players.

Unfortunately, this game is not translated properly for the English language. As such, it is literally unplayable. As a huge webnovel reader, yes, the translation is worse than the partial translations that pop up on the MTL sites. This is for both the conversations AND the instructions.

As a huge fan of the Wuxia Civilization novels, art and games, I would love to play this game from the perspective of a single person instead of a sect, and to be able to play the game in the English language. These are my full hopes for Amazing Cultivation Simulator 2.

most complete cultivation game out there. the best . maybe not, but is definately good.

I have next to no idea what I'm doing. 10/10

I don't understand anything. i am confused. i don't get it. but i've played it for 18 hours so far?
first cult doomed, first leader died. then a cat came and enjoyed hanging out, with the other members. another member died. another cat came to hang out with the new leader. the new leader died.
the 2 male cats slept by the decaying corpse. cult dead, cats sad. fengshuei is serious stuff!
10/10 game. i don't understand anything but will continue to confuse myself with this game for a few hours probably. you could say this game is Pu-Erh-Tea-Nice!

There are a couple of places in the tutorials that completely freeze the game and are impossible to complete.

Every negative review about this game is probably correct. It's buggy, annoying, obtuse, badly translated and also crack cocaine. It's basically unplayable without mods and a wiki open on the side. I cannot stop playing it. I physically cannot turn it off. I have encountered several thesis-sized google docs explaining random subsystems I've barely interacted with. I've read all of them and understood maybe half of one. ONE OF THEM WAS ABOUT PLANTING TREES.

I have never had more fun optimising and micromanaging in a game, and I'm so deep in the paradox money drain I get flashbacks every time a random youtuber uses the stellaris ost. The willingness of this game to just let you try something again is absolutely amazing for my brain. It lets you fuck up, get stuck and learn while not making these things feel game-ruining. You slowly piece together the best way to do things and figure out how to fund and implement them. Then you find out about an obscure mechanic that could make it slightly more optimal and the next thing you know it's 6am and you need to leave for work.

I had a nightmare the other day about my risky rabbit yaoguai recruit not surviving tribulation. I DONT HAVE A RISKY RABBIT YAOGUAI RECRUIT. My sect leader has a giant cat mount because it's cute even though it's tier 1 and absolute ass. My dedicated artifact crafting snake lady has a minor error in her skill tree that doesn't affect her crafting in the slightest and I'm heavily considering giving her a nirvana pill. My brain is being rewired in real time. Someone send help.

There's so much to learn but it's fun.

epic game for epic gamersssss super easy to learn too and epicky fun

Rimworld + Martial Art > 8.5/10 quite deep gameplay

the feng shei in this review is slightly off. my house has burned down

haven't played it yet because it's genuinely overwhelming much like Kenshi so i usually just open the game and watch Sseth videos.

This game was far beyond my capabilities

I can finally ascend.

Rimworld, but with a wuxia theme. A bit of a steeper learning curve than most colony simulators, but it's a ton of fun and gets super in depth. One of my favorites.

Time suck for sure

Accurate china simulator

Educational. And much like real life there are so many buttons to press all the time. Click on your friends. Make them get into smithing because your beloved parakeet will freeze to death if you can't craft enough things with the fire element in the winter to put near them.

Call them. Make it happen.

A game that shouldn't be as fun as it is.

This is one of those games you spend hours learning the mechanics... Then you discover the wiki and spend more time deep diving into the mechanics... Then you find the Discord and search the massive archive of conversations on various topics you always wanted to know.. Finally, you discover a few mods you would like to add in game along with some home brew cultivators for your next run and voila 500+ hours in game.

One of my favorite games to come back to and play, try new strategies, or just hope for a bad ass roll at character creation and go with it. Nothing sucks more than your favorite mortal getting a heart attack just before you enlighten them or the random demon creature assault while your main defense force is out gathering and your mortal sprouts just get killed. Don't forget the rude guests you get that are never satisfied while visiting or the endless searching for a specific NPC.

My recommendation is buy, buy, buy, and spend hours absorbing the Chinese fantasy of Xianxia and Wuxia elements. Take a break from European fantasy.

10\10

Very Confusing rewarding game

Amazing Cultivation Simulator is tiring but fun. I’d recommend it to people with plenty of free time who are committed to learning its mechanics. If you don’t take the time to understand the game, it can punish you severely. Even with 200 hours of playtime, I still have a lot to learn. It’s a game that rewards your patience in understanding it.

Amazing Cultivation Simulator is a niche gemstone that has been polished by its creators.
Now as a community we need to polish the forums and video guides about the game.

Sadly I cannot recommend this game as I play on a 3 monitor setup and I cannot play using the 4k monitor. Trying to do so causes the main menus buttons to become unclickable at above 1080p and the only way I was able to fix it was to use steam to force the game to close, unplug my 4k monitor restart the game which forces it into 1080p if it was above that, go into the system settings and click on and confirm 1920x1080 then once again restart the game.

Having that much issue trying to get back into the game is ridiculous simply because it can't function either at 4k resolutions or can't work with monitors of differing resolutions. What I was able to play is enjoyable but having my primary gaming monitor become a secondary for one game that OFFERS 4K resolution is stupid beyond belief. If this gets fixed I will be more than happy to remove this review and replace it with a more positive one.

I have no idea what's going on.

Bad Translation.
Couldn't complete several tutorial steps due to bugs