Mudang

Mudang is a survival game in which the player performs a rite at a ruined shrine house and faces wraiths that rise from the ground. There is no final world. The wraiths grow stronger with time alone, and the length of time the player lasts before falling is recorded as their score. Merit carried out of a rite can be spent before the next one begins.

Each rite begins with the choice of one of five gods: the Grand General, the Steward, the Mountain, the Dragon King or the Seven Stars. Only one can enter the player’s body at a time. There are six worlds, including flooded paddies, a frostbitten mountain pass, burial mounds, a black pond and dry stone flats. Standing water halves the movement speed of both the Mudang and the wraiths, while dry dust speeds both. Thirty-six wraiths appear in five kinds: swarmers, those that cut ahead, ranged throwers and the Gate that blocks the way. Each world uses a different mix, and the enemy types change every few minutes.

Offerings are scattered across the ground and must be carried to an off-screen shrine to count, which earns a Boon of the player’s choosing. A three-legged crow called Samjoko circles the player, attacks wraiths, knocks incoming projectiles away and grows by taking vigor from them. The game includes five playable Mudang with individual traits, five Arms that each unlock an awakened strike at level 10, six Relics, four Trances, four crow powers and six Boons. It also has a codex of the 36 wraiths, 47 achievements and support for 11 languages.