Is "Cultivation" a genre for games?

[Swagmaster Love 🇪🇺]

Why are the reviews saying stuff like:
"this game brings a new dawn to cultivation games as it truely capture the aspect of it as a whole."
"Cultivation is basically a hard drug for me. days lost. searching for more cultivation games"

Are "cultivation games" a genre and if so, why have I never heard of it?

[faecalist]

Some AI made up rubbish I think

[Sornas]

Cultivation is a genre that focuses on the character's training and growth, both physical and spiritual. It's a common subgenre in Wuxia and other martial arts fiction. You probably haven't heard of it because It's primarily in Chinese fiction, but you can see it's influences on other things like Shonen anime that have big focuses on training and mastery (DBZ, etc), as well as "LitRPG" novels that are becoming popular in english in the past few years.

If you're curious about the genre and looking for some more steam games along those lines, check out Immortal life, Matchless Kungfu, Wandering sword, and Hero's adventure: Road to passion.

[Prisoner 76561197992841073]

sounds like a translation gone wrong

[Mavrah]

Originally posted by faecalist:

Some AI made up rubbish I think

chinese made up rubbish, it seems. Very similar, but you should lower your expectations.

Originally posted by Sornas:

Cultivation is a genre that focuses on the character's training and growth, both physical and spiritual.

So it's pokemon?

[kabanzai]

Short answer? Yes. Yes it is.
This game does have good representation of the genre too.. just.. Really bad combat system and poor translation makes it hard.

[Misa]

I think they just mean Xianxia when they say cultivation.
Better "cultivation" games than this one would be Sword and Fairy 7 or Gujian 3.
If you'd rather watch a show then play a game, I recommend "A record of a mortal's journey to immortality", you can watch it on youtube.
I'm guessing the genre is not popular because A) Most games aren't translated to english B) the ones that are often have bad translations c) it's hard to put such grandiose journeys with such insane powerscaling into a game

[Uriel]

Cultivation is found is both Wuxia and Xianxia, buty way more prominent in Xianxia indeed.

In case some reader wouldn't know and is interested, Wuxia is more grounded that Xianxia. While in both cases heroes are extremely strong and display uncanny abilities, Wuxia is more Spiderman, and Xianxia is more Superman.

Wuxia is what happens when you push the human body to the extreme limit and add some fantasy to it. Xianxia is what happens when you go bonkers about how stupidly powerful you can become. In both cases, the heroes start rather low, but the difference is, in Xianxia they can end up flinging a whole planet at their opponent, spend a thousand years in meditation with nothing to sustain them but their qi, and so on.

Because of how stupidly powerful heroes get, there are very fiew Xianxia games. "Amazing Cultivation Simulator" would be one, but it's basically "Chinese Immortals Rimworld". I don't think it's even possible to balance a fully bonkers Xianxia game in multiplayer, even less so in PvP.