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Yao-Guai Hunter
Yao-Guai Hunter is a Wuxia roguelike deck-building game. In a world where Yao-Guai roam free, player battles with various evil beings, collecting cards and learn inner skills. Encountering various adventures in the martial world.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“An enjoyable STS-like that I keep coming back to. Would be great if it run a bit smoother, though.”
— a player, Steam review · 33 hrs played“You could say that the animations in this game look pretty stilted, [b]but:[/b] [olist] [*]I think the artstyle is gorgeous enough to outweigh this; [*]Slay the Spire straight up didn't give animations to several enemies and player characters, and look where it's at now. [/olist]”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“Wish there was a "meh, it's ok" option, but I do like it more than I dislike it. It's pretty standard for a deckbuilder rougelike, with 5 characters that each play pretty differently. The difficulty is not too easy but not too hard either. If you like Slay the Spire, you'll like…”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:55 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
V1.2.9 Version Update
V1.2.9 Update① Bug FixesFixed an issue in the battle against Zhuxian Master where enemy status bars could be covered by cards in hand.Fixed an issue where the achievements “Spider's Lair” and “Revive,
V1.2.8 Version Update
V1.2.8 Update① Bug FixesFixed an issue where returning to the main menu during an event and then loading the save could cause the game to soft-lock without showing the results screen when selecting a
V1.2.7 Version Update
V1.2.7 Update① Bug FixesFixed an issue where having Lightning Storm caused spell casts to deal 5 extra instances of LightningSurge damage to Hydra Heads.Fixed an issue where Energy Garb counted Hydra
V1.2.6 Version Update
V1.2.6 Update① Bug FixesFixed an issue where the seed ID in the lower-right corner would be missing when loading a run file created outside the current session, causing the generated routes in subsequ
V1.2.5 Version Update
V1.2.5 Update① Bug FixesFixed an issue where item hotkeys would occasionally malfunction.Fixed an issue where the Wuyou King would freeze when using skills in Korean version.Fixed a missing translatio
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Card Game · Roguelike Deckbuilder · Replay Value · Rogue-like · Card Battler · Cartoony · Turn-Based · Deckbuilding · Singleplayer · Strategy · Indie · Rogue-lite (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | Simplified Chinese * , English * , Japanese * , Traditional Chinese * , Korean * , Russian * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 75 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7/Windows 8 Processor: 2 Core CPU 2.8Ghz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Discrete graphics 1GB Storage: 5 GB available space Sound Card: Normal Sound Card