When does Black Myth: Zhong Kui release?

On 2020-08-31 the company filed five '黑神话钟馗' trademarks in classes 9, 28, 35, 41 and 42; they are now registered.

游戏科学关联公司深圳市游科互动科技有限公司早在2020年8月31日就申请了5件“黑神话钟馗”商标，分别注册在9类-科学仪器、28类-体育玩具、35类-广告贸易、41类-教育娱乐和42类-技术服务这几个核心类别。目前，商标已注册成功。

On 2025-07-02 the company filed more than ten '820捌贰零' trademark applications, currently awaiting substantive examination.

知协查询发现，深圳市游科互动科技有限公司于今年7月2日提交了十余件“820捌贰零”商标申请，目前这些商标处于等待实质审查状态。

Every August 20, Game Science reports its latest work progress to everyone as a matter of routine.

每年的8月20日，游戏科学都会例行给大家汇报最新的工作进度。所以最简单的办法，就是在820当天瞅瞅B站、抖音、快手、微博、小红书、微信视频号等社媒的【黑神话】官号动态，然后顺手点个关注。

PC and major consoles. Please refer to the pre-release announcement for final platform details.

PC+主流主机平台，正式信息请以发售前通知为准。

As soon as we can! But first, the game has to be good enough to impress even our seasoned, seen-it-all colleagues. So yes, that pretty much guarantees it won't be quick, hehe.

尽量快！但考虑到综合品质必须先打动内部见多识广的同事们，那就一定快不起来，嘻嘻。

"Little more than an empty folder at this stage"; "The (Journey to the) West will not end here."

据官网介绍，《黑神话：钟馗》依然是一款标准的单机·动作·角色扮演游戏，商业模式与前作别无二致，“刚建好文件夹不久，实机还没什么影子”。“在这个新的游戏里，有信心做出清爽的变化与新意，也会狠狠反思过去的不足与遗憾。”游戏科学表示，“而对所有喜爱《黑神话：悟空》的朋友，我们想说：西游，不会到此为止。”

Game Science openly says this game is still very early in development, calling Black Myth: Zhong Kui "little more than an empty folder at this stage," so "there's hardly any game footage we could share." It adds that "we're still exploring and experimenting with the concrete differences between Wukong and Zhong Kui."

Game Science openly says this game is still very early in development, calling Black Myth: Zhong Kui "little more than an empty folder at this stage," so "there's hardly any game footage we could share." It adds that "we're still exploring and experimenting with the concrete differences between Wukong and Zhong Kui."

As for the Zhong Kui release date, "even [Wukong director] Yocar himself has absolutely no idea" when it's coming out.

The studio says it announced the game now because it's an August 20 tradition. As for the Zhong Kui release date, "even [Wukong director] Yocar himself has absolutely no idea" when it's coming out.

A Q&A section confirms that Zhong Kui is coming to PC and "all mainstream console platforms."

is also live now. A Q&A section confirms that Zhong Kui is coming to PC and "all mainstream console platforms."

GamerSky's on-page 'platform: PC / PS5 / XSX' card is media inference; the only official wording is 'PC + mainstream console platforms', which never names PS5 or Xbox.

游戏平台：PC/PS5/XSX

According to Game Science, "Black Myth: Zhong Kui" will remain a single-player action role-playing game rooted in China's ancient myths and folk tales. It is planned for PC and major consoles, though no release date has been announced.

According to Game Science, "Black Myth: Zhong Kui" will remain a single-player action role-playing game rooted in China's ancient myths and folk tales. It is planned for PC and major consoles, though no release date has been announced.

The stated reason for announcing now: August 20 is the studio's annual progress report, and because the project only recently started and in-game content is far from formed, a CG short was made to mark the project entering development.

游戏科学在官网中给出了解释：每年的 8 月 20 日，团队都会向玩家汇报最新的工作进度。考虑到《黑神话：钟馗》项目刚启动不久，实机内容还远未成型，为了保持正常的开发节奏，他们决定先制作一段 CG 短片，向大家宣告这一新项目已正式进入开发状态。

At 4am Beijing time, in the closing slot of Opening Night Live, no Wukong DLC appeared - Game Science showed the Zhong Kui teaser PV; Feng Ji's account implies the project is roughly half a year old.

our record, not a quotation今天（8月20日），科隆游戏展开幕之夜，游科例行“汇报工作进度”。北京时间凌晨4点，科隆游戏展开幕的压轴环节，《黑神话：悟空》DLC没有出现，游科放出了《黑神话：钟馗》的预告PV。 冯骥谈及为什么先做《黑神话：钟馗》，从他的叙述中可知该作启动至今约莫多半年

The official English FAQ answers 'how can I stay up to date' by pointing to the annual August 20 posts on the official Black Myth accounts, offering no subscription-based information channel.

Every August 20, we check in with everyone and share our latest progress. So the easiest way to stay in the loop is to swing by the official Black Myth accounts on YouTube, X, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and other social platforms that day. And while you're there, you might as well hit Follow.

But the Hangzhou-based company has not announced a release date or window for the game.

The trailer marks a significant step forward from the game's initial reveal last year, when Game Science released only a cinematic teaser as the project was still in its early development stage. But the Hangzhou-based company has not announced a release date or window for the game. Game Science first unveiled Black Myth: Zhong Kui at Gamescom Opening Night Live in August 2025. The studio subsequently released a six-minute in-engine video on February 10, 2026, as a Chinese New Year special. Game Science described the video as non-canon content rather than part of the game's actual story.

The site states the 'earliest realistic window is 2027 or later' as a cycle-based inference and lists a boss named 'Da Bang Zhen Jun' as content of the 2026-08-20 demo, though that name appears in no official material; its 'PS5 / PC / Xbox - all TBA' framing also goes past the official wording.

Release date: still TBA. A 15-minute in-development gameplay demo dropped August 20, 2026 — still no date. Based on Game Science's cycle, the earliest realistic window is 2027 or later. Platform status: PS5

Across 13 monthly NPPA domestic online-game approval lists (Aug 2025 - Aug 2026, 2111 rows), searches for 钟馗 / 黑神话 / 游戏科学 return zero hits; the parse was validated against a cleanly rendered 2026-08 row. Scope caveat: Wukong itself is absent from the 2023-2024 lists checked, so this proves only that no approval published via this route names a Black Myth / Zhong Kui title to Game Science.

our record, not a quotationMETHOD RESULT (13 monthly lists, Aug 2025 -> Aug 2026): rows read = 2111. '钟馗' = 0. '黑神话' = 0. '游戏科学' = 0. | POSITIVE CONTROL row: 33号避难所 | 广东音像出版社有限公司 | 广州龙畅网络科技有限公司 | 国新出审〔2026〕1917号 | ISBN 978-7-498-17356-0 | 2026年08月28日

There is no Steam store page, no appid and no Coming Soon page for Black Myth: Zhong Kui, therefore no Steam news feed; store-search hits for the name are unrelated third-party copycats.

our record, not a quotationRAW RESPONSE 1 - term='Black Myth Zhong Kui' (cc=us,l=en): {"total":0,"items":[]} | RAW RESPONSE 4 - appdetails?appids=2358720 returns success for 'Black Myth: Wukong' only. There is no appid, no Coming Soon page, no publisher-page listing and therefore no Steam news feed for Black Myth: Zhong Kui.

The ESRB and PEGI public search endpoints returned HTTP 404 on the access date, so this is recorded as a failed probe, not a clean negative. The defensible wording is 'no rating record located at last check', not 'not rated'. The official FAQ carries no rating field and no language/localisation list.

our record, not a quotationOBSERVED: both URLs returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-23 because the public search endpoints on esrb.org and pegi.info have moved. These two probes therefore do NOT by themselves constitute a clean negative, and are recorded as a failed method, not as a finding. HOW TO PHRASE IT ON OUR SITE: '暂无可查证的分级记录 (no rating record located at last check)' together with the method and its limitation.

Wikipedia carries the 'empty folder' and 'absolutely no idea' quotes inside the title of its GamesRadar+ citation, with a 2025-10-18 archive URL, while the infobox's engine and publisher fields are blank - a reminder that tertiary 'facts' must be traced back to the B-tier source itself.

our record, not a quotationlast1=Wood first1=Austin title=Black Myth: Wukong dev announces new action RPG Black Myth: Zhong Kui, admits it's "little more than an empty folder at this stage" and it has "absolutely no idea" when it's coming out... website=GamesRadar+ date=19 August 2025