Key art: a swordsman in a straw hat stands on an old stone bridge above a misty river, cherry petals drifting past pagodas and mountains.

A wuxia RPG painted in pixels and ink.

九条江河,九位师父,一条你自己的路。

See the battle system

Early Access · 2027Windows · macOSEN · 简体 · 繁體

Old Ferryman

Nine rivers run out of these mountains, child. Each one remembers a master. Your teacher knew all nine — and now he is dead, and every school on every river wants what he left you.

The story 江湖有九川

A dead master, a torn book, and nine schools that want it.

You are Shen Ye, the last apprentice of a swordsman nobody admits to having known. He left you a book with nine pages torn out, a debt to a ferryman, and a name that opens doors and starts fights.

Each torn page is held by one of the nine schools of the jianghu, on one of nine rivers. To read your master’s last lesson, you will have to learn theirs — or break them.

Rivers
9
Martial forms
6
Side tales
27
In Early Access
4/9

The game 游戏

Four things Nine Rivers does that no wuxia game has done quite like this.

  • 01

    九川九师Nine rivers, nine masters

    Every river is a chapter, a region and a school. Train under its master, learn their forms, and decide whether to inherit their art or surpass it.

  • 02

    破势Break their stance

    Every foe fights in a stance. Read it, strike the forms it can’t guard, and when it breaks they lose their turn — and you get to write the next one.

  • 03

    画中江湖A world painted in pixels and ink

    Hand-placed pixel sprites inside lit, three-dimensional dioramas: ink-wash skies, drifting mist, rain on lantern light, depth you can almost step into.

  • 04

    茶馆说书Stories told over tea

    Every river town has an inn, every inn has a storyteller, and every story is a rumour you can follow. Twenty-seven side tales, written at night.

Battle 破势

Break their stance.

Every foe guards some forms and not others. Find what they can’t block, crack their shields, and when the stance breaks they lose a turn and take double damage. Try it on the Bandit Chief.

Battle screen: a party of four faces three bandits on a bamboo road at dusk.
Bandit Chief山贼头领Lv. 18
4
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Su Wan

Choose a form. Weak points light up when you find them.

The world 九川九师

Nine rivers, nine masters.

Follow one river west to east through the jianghu. Each bend is a region, a town and a school. Early Access opens the first four.

River 1 of 9 · In Early Access

青溪 Jade Creek

Ruan Qing 阮青
Willow Sword 柳剑

“A willow bends. That is why the storm never breaks it.”

Reed marshes of the east · Qīngxī

Press kit 媒体资料

Everything you need to write about Nine Rivers.

Title
Nine Rivers 九川
Developer
Chen Yu (solo), Chengdu, China
Music
Zhou Lan
Genre
Turn-based role-playing game
Release
Early Access · 2027
Platforms
Windows and macOS, on Steam
Price
To be announced
Languages
English, 简体中文, 繁體中文
Press
press@ninerivers.molby.app

The ferryman’s ledger 船家账本

One email when the demo lands.

Devlogs once a month, and a single message the day the Steam page opens. No noise.

Old Ferryman

The Steam page opens with the demo.

Chen is finishing the Steam Next Fest demo. Leave your email and you’ll get one message, the day you can wishlist.

A Molby example — Nine Rivers is a fictional game, so there is no store page yet.