This new Game Pass Soulslike could be Xbox’s answer to Black Myth: Wukong, and it just got a sublime gameplay trailer

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is headed to Xbox, Game Pass, and other platforms in 2025.

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Microsoft’sXbox Partner Preview eventhas given fans a closer look at several of the most exciting new games coming to its consoles and Xbox Game Pass, and one that’s particularly noteworthy is Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. Firstannounced earlier this year at the Xbox Games Showcaseby developer Leenzee and publisher 505 Games, the title made a second appearance during Microsoft’s October presentation.

While the Chinese action RPG’s debut was a short cinematic teaser with minimal combat, this latest showing is a longer gameplay trailer that displays its flashy battle mechanics in significantly more detail and reaffirms its 2025 release window. Specifically, it features intense fights with various enemies and what I presume to be some of the game’s earlier bosses, complete with tons of stylish melee combat. You can watch it withthis link, or by viewing the embedded video below.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a Soulslike set in the Chinese land of Shu during the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty, and puts you in the shoes of Wuchang — a fearsome pirate warrior afflicted with amnesia as well as a mysterious disease called Feathering. Feathering (also referred to as Ornithropy) grants Wuchang strange and unique powers, giving her an edge over many of the combatants she faces.

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Few specifics of the game’s story are known, butits Steam pagenotes that it will explore Wuchang’s forgotten past and the origins of Feathering amidst the battles between Shu’s warring factions and the monsters spawned throughout the land by the illness. During the adventure, players will make use of Wuchang’s masterful swordsmanship, skills learned from defeated adversaries, elemental magic, and special enchantment-based weapon augmentations to overcome their opponents. It’s also been confirmed that there will be multiple endings, with the one you get determined by certain choices you make as the story unfolds.

The gameplay shown in the new trailer looks both incredibly fluid and fairly challenging, with stylish and clean animation work that matches the excellence of something like FromSoftware’s Game of the Year-winningSekiro: Shadows Die Twice. In many ways, Wuchang’s combat, art direction, and Game Pass availability all make it seem like something of an answer toBlack Myth: Wukongfor Microsoft — officially, it hasn’t come to Xbox yetfor optimization reasons, though reports indicatethere may actually be a PlayStation exclusivity deal in place— though it’s clear from the footage that it draws inspiration from other Soulslike-style games likeWo Long: Fallen Dynasty.

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All in all, everything we’ve seen of Wuchang: Fallen Feathers looks fantastic so far, and it might just end up being one of 2025’sbest Xbox gamesandbest PC games. I was hoping we’d get more of a concrete and specific release date since we already knew it was coming out at some point next year, but I’ll happily take all the cool new gameplay and wait patiently.

In general, it’s been a good few years for Soulslike fans on Xbox andXbox Game Pass. From highly polished big-name titles like Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty,Lies of P, andLords of the Fallento creative indies like Another Crab’s Treasure, there’s no shortage of things to play if you’re craving that classic Souls-style gameplay design FromSoftware pioneered many years ago.

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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).