Press kit

Facts

Title

Courting Death: A Xianxia Survivor

Genre

Pixel-art xianxia survivors-like

Platforms

Windows, Mac, Linux and Steam Deck

Runs

20 minutes; bosses at 5, 10 and 15 minutes, a final boss at 20

In the game

46 techniques, each with its own evolution; 12 Dao Fusions; 25 Dao Insights; 46 cultivators; 7 realms, plus hidden ones; 6 stage modes; 5 Bloodlines

Free Demo

The Bamboo Forest to its 20:00 clear; 4 cultivators; 8 techniques and their evolutions; 1 Dao Fusion; progress carries over to the full game

Controllers

Xbox, PlayStation and Steam controllers; prompts switch with the device

Profiles

Facebook: facebook.com/playcourtingdeath
Instagram: instagram.com/playcourtingdeath
TikTok: tiktok.com/@playcourtingdeath
X: x.com/PlayCourtDeath
YouTube: youtube.com/@playCourtingDeath

Short description

A pixel-art xianxia survivors-like. Your techniques strike on their own; you move, dash and aim. Evolve every technique, fuse evolutions into Dao Fusions, bend the rules with Dao Insights, survive 20 minutes and humble the arrogant Young Master. Free Demo available.

Long description

A nobody with one sword. A forest full of spirits. And an arrogant Young Master who has already decided you are courting death.

Cultivate

Courting Death is a pixel-art xianxia survivors-like. Your techniques strike on their own; you move, dash out of trouble and aim the directional ones with the mouse or right stick.

20-minute runs: bosses at 5, 10 and 15 minutes, a final boss at 20
Heavenly Tribulation lightning strikes from minute 3
No auto-aim, and a quick dash when the crowd closes in

Evolve and Fuse

Every Breakthrough adds a technique or a Treasure to your build. Max a technique, pair it with its Treasure, open a chest, and it evolves.

46 techniques, each with its own evolution
12 Dao Fusions: two evolutions merge into a single technique
Carry six techniques, or stake everything on one

Bend the Rules

At the start of a run, choose one Dao Insight from five. Each of the 25 bends a rule for the whole run, and the bosses after minutes 10 and 15 each offer one more, up to three.

The Young Master

He picks the fight, taunts you, and slips away if you are too slow. He comes back angrier. Humble him twice and his father, the Sect Elder, comes to settle the score.

Then walk into his sect. The Proud Heaven Sect is a walled maze where, from minute 3, the Sword-Stream Array floods the streets with blades.

Between Lives

Every run brings Spirit Stones home.

Body and Soul Cultivation, and 5 Bloodlines to awaken
46 cultivators to recruit, each with a signature technique
Shape a cultivator of your own in the Chamber of Reflections
The Lotus of Samsara trades a finished life for Dao Marks and permanent Past-Life Legacies

Realms and Stage Modes

Climb seven realms, from the Bamboo Forest through the Mountains, the Proud Heaven Sect, the Burning Sands, the Northern Frost Wastes and the Sea of Stars to the Edge of Creation. Sandstorms, blizzards, meteor showers and reality rifts each change the fight. Some realms are hidden from every map.

Six stage modes change how a realm plays: Accelerated Qi, Fleeting Years, Blood Moon, Mortal Vessel, Heaven Reversed and Mortal Again.

Music composed live on synthesized classical Chinese instruments, following the fight
Xbox, PlayStation and Steam controllers, with button prompts that follow your device
A Free Demo: the Bamboo Forest with four cultivators, and your progress carries over to the full game