| Heroes of Jin Yong | |
| Developer: | Heluo Studio |
| Publisher: | Soft-World |
| Engine: | Proprietary |
| Released: | Asia: 1996 |
| Genre: | Tactical RPG |
| Modes: | Single-player |
| Platforms: | DOS |
Heroes of Jin Yong, first published in 1996, is a tactical role-playing game developed by Taiwanese game developer Soft-World's Heluo Studio (later known as Oriental Algorithm System), based on the storyline and characters from Jin Yong's wuxia novels.
The player takes on the role of present-day protagonist, who falls asleep playing a new computer game and wakes up one day to find himself in an alternate dimension of the ancient Chinese jianghu world. The player learns that in order to return to the real modern world, he must find all of Jin Yong's fourteen novels and be crowned the champion of jianghu. The books are scattered around the world and the player must interact with many characters from the novels, each with his/her own story and mission. Some characters are friendly and willing to help the player in his quest, while others are hostile and fight with him. The player must train and improve his own martial art skills in order to acquire the books. There are a wide variety of martial arts styles and weapons available, including sword, saber, whip, and palm styles. The player can also choose to follow a righteous or evil path through his actions and deeds, with different reactions from characters depending on what path he takes.
The massive multiplayer online version (金庸群俠傳Online) was published by Chinesegamer International Corp. Version 1.0 was released in June, 2001, and version 2.0 was released in December, 2004.
A sequel titled Wulin Qunxia Zhuan was developed by Heluo Studio and published by Softworld in 2001. A remake of the game under the title of Tale of Wuxia was released in Chinese on 28 July 2015, and later on Steam in both Chinese and English on 28 April 2016.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] A standalone prequel to Tale of Wuxia was released in 2017 under the title Tale of Wuxia: The Pre-Sequel .[7]
Another sequel to Heroes of Jin Yong was released in 2018 under the title Ho Tu Lo Shu: The Books of Dragon on the Chinese Cube Game platform, and later on Steam with only Chinese language support.[8]
Heroes of Jin Yong 2 is a browser game developed by an independent Chinese gaming developer, 半瓶神仙醋, with Adobe Flash.[9] The game was released on 24 December 2006 for free and gained popularity on Chinese gaming platforms.