{"id":712514,"date":"2026-07-26T20:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712514\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:25:10","slug":"wuchang-fallen-feathers-tops-5-million-players-despite-dev-teams-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712514\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuchang: Fallen Feathers tops 5 million players despite dev team’s collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers<\/a> has surpassed five million players.<\/p>\n

By March 2026, we knew the Wuxia action game had sold over 1 million copies and had enjoyed a pretty successful launch, according to industry analysts at the time<\/a>. Within months, however, developer Leenzee’s core team was seemingly disbanded<\/a>, reportedly due to the departure of key senior staff and the remaining team’s refusal to become a support studio.<\/p>\n

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers – Official Launch Trailer.Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the departure of the game’s key team, however, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has continued to clock up impressive numbers<\/a> with an overall ‘mixed<\/a>‘ Steam score and no updates since 20th November, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers’ surpassed 5M players. The studio got shut down a few months ago.<\/p>\n

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Eurogamer’s Wuchang: Fallen Feathers<\/a> review described the game as “Soulslike comfort food”, but admitted that the fun action game had “few true surprises”.<\/p>\n

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers producer and director Xia Siyuan has since formed a new studio<\/a>, and the intellectual property rights for Wuchang: Fallen Feathers were fully acquired by Italian games publisher\/developer Digital Bros for roughly \u20ac4 million in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has surpassed five million players. By March 2026, we knew the Wuxia action game had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}