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Wuxia & Xianxia

In regards to setting and discussion of story, we’re generally applying Xianxia to more fantastical Chinese fantasy and Wuxia to more grounded (though still probably fantastical) martial arts fantasy. There’s a good explainer of this in r/fantasy on reddit. For example, Cultivation stories about quests to become immortal and interacting with deities are a Xianxia subgenre. But since we’re applying tags to games to help people find them, sometimes we’ll have both tags on a game that could appeal to fans of both subgenres. Generally this just means more liberally applying the Wuxia tag to Xianxia setting games that also include martial arts.