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Yaoling: Mythical Journey is a creature collecting Eastern fantasy RPG featuring an world filled with rich stories and unique Yaolings. Tasked to uncover a mysterious evil, you embark on a journey with your Yaolings, forming new friendships, engage in intense battles, and face countless challenges!

Yaoling: Mythical Journey is a early access, strategy and creature collector game developed by RAYKA STUDIO and published by RAYKA STUDIO, NPC Entertainment and Craftmos Games.
Released on June 19th 2025 is available only on Windows in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese.

It has received 2,628 reviews of which 2,405 were positive and 223 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 4.21€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Yaoling: Mythical Journey into these genres:

Early Access Strategy Creature Collector RPG Adventure Cute Open World Indie Relaxing Singleplayer Sandbox Exploration Story Rich Auto Battler Stylized Casual Simulation Crafting Cozy Fantasy

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7+
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1Gb Video Memory, Capable of OpenGL 3.0+ Support
Storage: 8 GB available space

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Dec. 2025

Such a welcome surprise. One of the better Monster Tamer games out there with a crazy amount of build variety and cute monsters to catch. It does have a lot of built-in quality of life too. It's almost perfect. Almost. There's a big caveat. The Village. This is the engine that drives a lot of your endgame activities such as breeding and I'm sorry to say that it's absolute engagement mechanic cancer. The way it plays out is like this: Every 36 Minutes of playtime, you head to the village to check on your commisions. Collect the rewards, then send out the teams again. This is a minute or so of completely brainless activity. Just click, click, click send, click, click, click send again and again. That done you need to check the periodically rotating merchant for talent gems so that you can better control what talents your Yaolings have. After that, you collect what your hunting team brought home, then go check on the mine, grab the money from the kitchen, see about your charms, check your garden and then check on breeding. Finally, you head to the Arena to get honor to be able to buy legendary talent gems on a another rotating selection and if you care for cosmetics, you can also check a rotating random vendor for that. Every 36 minutes, you do an absolute chore of busywork for 10-15 minutes, only to get back out for 20 minutes and then the timer is up, well back you go, gotta do the commissions at least. If you're the type to enjoy tinkering with builds, this game is great fun. If you just want a decent campaign that starts easy and gets pretty hard towards the end? Enjoy! However if you like the idea of breeding the perfect Yaoling - run. The village will sap the joy out of you and punch you into a burnout. Still recommend it for all the rest.

Nov. 2025

Overall, this is a fantastic game if you like creature-collecting and autobattles. The Yaolings feature visually striking, diverse designs that avoid clutter, making it genuinely difficult to choose favorites even with expanded party slots. The game offers deep customization through evolution systems, breeding mechanics, stat optimization, and a talent system that provides passive effects and build variety. Talents do everything from providing basic stat boosts to blinking, healing, auras, and more. For someone that likes trying out new strategies with different creatures and talents, this is the game. There are so many possibilities with over 400 yaolings (although many are upgrades to the first one in the evolution line). The real-time auto-battle combat is enhanced by interactive charms (summons, buffs, and heals) that keep challenging fights engaging. The open-world map is expansive yet well-designed and easy to navigate, encouraging exploration. Base-building elements add charm, with unlockable facilities like breeders, farms, and restaurants, plus NPCs and Yaolings populating your home village. However, the game has notable weaknesses. The English translation is serviceable but riddled with typos and awkward phrasing, and in-game explanations are often inadequate—key mechanics like evolution types and demon transformations lack proper documentation. The core gameplay loop of "travel north, defeat boss" can feel monotonous, and the game would benefit from more puzzles and dungeon variety to break up constant battling. The story is abysmal, which is to be expected in such a game. A warning is in place as this game has some idle/gacha lite elements. All the buildings and breeding have an in-game timer, often about 30 minutes. Which means that you are waiting for something to be completed a lot of the time. Letting the game be on and regularly checking in on your buildings can be tedious. Verdict : If you love Pokémon and enjoy deep creature-collecting mechanics, Yaoling delivers satisfying gameplay despite its rough translation and repetitive structure. The stellar monster designs and build customization make it worth experiencing for genre fans.

June 2025

Finally, a monster-collecting game that is NOT a clone of digimon/pokemon!! Criminally underrated and an overall incredibly satisfying game! Just add multiplayer and it'll be perfect.

April 2025

Lovely fantasy Pokemon. Looks gorgeous and has an addicting gameplay loop. No copy paste on creature designs either. They all fit into the art style and look very nice. Plays very nice on the Steam Deck. My only gripe is that text is a bit small. It's fine but i wish there was a scaling option.

April 2025

I bought this game last night, and i can say this one of the best creature collector games on steam. I really love play Pokemon likes games and collecting it, such as Nexomon Collection, Tem-Tem, Casette Beast, Coromon, Moonstone Island, Ooblets, Monster Crown, Monster Sanctuary, Digimon series, and other creature collecting games... And i would say, this game is really worth u'r money :) For Early Access games this game is really solid, creature design is absolute blast, cute but cool on the same times I hope many people know about this game, buy it and play it Because this game need attention and support :) If you like playing Pokemon, Creature Collector, you musy buy this game :) is awesome --- For Dev, please don't abandon this amazing game, hope you always support and update for new Yaoling in next update I have several requests: 1. Hope we can build house for main character and we can decorate it and upgrade our house 2. We can use flaying skills and fly around world map with our Yaoling, thats would be awesome :) 3. Add more legendary monsters 4. Collectibles Yaoling items/cards drops, makes us more enthusiastic 5. New region like on sky or underwater 6. I play mostly on Steamdeck, i hope you can add zooming function for handheld player, customize UI like we can arrange large text or large ui for handheld player --- Okay thank you so much for making this amazing games dev :) Indies developer is really good right now better than triple a developer, and we must support them :)

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Yaoling: Mythical Journey is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Yaoling: Mythical Journey is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Yaoling: Mythical Journey received 2,405 positive votes out of a total of 2,628 achieving a rating of 8.76.

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Yaoling: Mythical Journey was developed by RAYKA STUDIO and published by RAYKA STUDIO, NPC Entertainment and Craftmos Games.

Yaoling: Mythical Journey is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Yaoling: Mythical Journey is not playable on MacOS.

Yaoling: Mythical Journey is not playable on Linux.

Yaoling: Mythical Journey is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for Yaoling: Mythical Journey. Explore additional content available for Yaoling: Mythical Journey on Steam.

Yaoling: Mythical Journey does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Yaoling: Mythical Journey does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yaoling: Mythical Journey is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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