Checked 2–3 September 2026 — prices are US Steam prices; review scores are all-language totals from Steam's review endpoint, with the English-only view where it differs.

Games Like Tale of Immortal: The Verified Alternatives

Tale of Immortal (鬼谷八荒, $19.99) is the flagship of the genre and the game with the most cultivation reviews on Steam — about 224,700 of them. It is also Mixed across all languages (56%) while Mostly Positive in English only (79%), which tells you the two reasons people look for something like it: they want the same fantasy with fewer rough edges, or they discover that what they actually wanted was one specific part of it — the sect, the jianghu, the farm, the phone. This page sorts the alternatives by which part.

The short version

Tale of Immortal vs Amazing Cultivation Simulator

The comparison everyone makes, and the two games are not competing for the same evening. Tale of Immortal is one cultivator's life: you pick a spirit root, join or fight sects, and climb. Amazing Cultivation Simulator (了不起的修仙模拟器, GSQ Games, $24.99, released November 2020) is a RimWorld-shaped colony sim: you found the sect, and your disciples cultivate, quarrel, break through and die while you manage feng shui, alchemy and the mortal town next door. Steam reviewers prefer ACS by a wide margin — Very Positive at 86% of about 23,600 — while Tale of Immortal's all-language score is Mixed, largely on localisation and late-content complaints. Both have official mobile ports since 2025 (ToI $9.99; ACS $9.99 on Android, $12.99 on iOS). If you liked the duel chapters of the novels, ToI; if you liked the sect-politics chapters, ACS.

Tale of Immortal vs The Scroll of Taiwu, Wandering Sword and Hero's Adventure

These three come up because they share the Chinese-fantasy shelf, and all three are wuxia: martial artists in a human world, no realm ladder, no immortality. That is not a flaw — it is often what people discover they actually wanted.

• The Scroll of Taiwu 太吾绘卷 ($29.99) — the deepest simulation of the three and the most divisive: eight years in Early Access, 1.0 with English on 16 June 2026, Mixed at 65.4% of 70,170. Choose it for a living martial world that runs itself, and accept that it will fight you.
• Wandering Sword 逸剑风云决 ($24.99) — the best-reviewed game on this whole page, 94.9% of 45,138. A pixel-art turn-based RPG with an authored adventure arc; less freedom than ToI, far more polish. Console versions arrive 21 January 2027.
• Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion 大侠立志传 ($17.99) — the closest in shape to Tale of Immortal: an open-world pixel jianghu where you can be a hero, a merchant or a villain, Very Positive at 84.5% of 24,507 (93.8% in English). If what you liked was the sandbox rather than the immortality, start here.
• The Matchless Kungfu 活侠传 ($19.99, Mostly Positive 79.4%) — sandbox wuxia with sect management, the smaller cousin of both Taiwu and ACS.

If it turns out the wuxia side is what you wanted, games like Wandering Sword goes through it properly — Hero's Adventure, Taiwu, Where Winds Meet and the rest, compared head to head.

The cultivation games closest to it

• Seeking Immortality 觅长生 ($14.99) — the best-reviewed cultivation game on Steam, Very Positive at 93% of 32,018, an open-world cultivation RPG that scratches exactly the Tale of Immortal itch — and has no official English, only a fan translation. If you read Chinese, this is the answer.
• Destiny of Immortal 造化仙缘 ($11.99) — story-heavy cultivation RPG with roughly 500,000 words in one route, Early Access since 7 July 2026, Very Positive at 80% of 1,832, no English until the full release. Wishlist it.
• Ascend From Nine Mountains ($19.99) — crafting and auto-battler cultivation RPG in English, Early Access since October 2025 on a two-year plan, Very Positive at 93% of 302; discloses AI-generated art and music.
• Immortal Life 一方灵田 ($16.99) — a farming and life sim wearing cultivation clothes, Mostly Positive at 80% of 4,352. For the people who spent most of Tale of Immortal tending their plot.
• Card Cultivation 卡牌修仙传 ($14.99) — Cultist Simulator-style card management, March 2026, Mostly Positive at 72% of 790. Same fiction, completely different hands.

Games like Tale of Immortal on Android and iOS

The honest first answer is Tale of Immortal itself: its own studio's port is $9.99 on Google Play (4.4 stars from about 1,700, 50,000-plus installs) and on the App Store since 15 July 2025 (a 2.1 GB download), with English. The complaints are a quest-blocking bug after 100-plus hours, touch fatigue without a controller, and no in-game guidance. Amazing Cultivation Simulator's port (June 2025) is the sect-management alternative on a phone. Below those two the phone shelf is idle MUDs and gacha — Immortal Taoists (5M+ installs), Overmortal, Infinite Cultivation — which are not like Tale of Immortal at all; the full list with monetisation is on cultivation games on mobile.

The one thing none of them do (ours)

Every game above lets you reload. Tale of Immortal's tension comes from a bad spirit root and a hostile world, but when the breakthrough fails you load the save. Blade RPG's Death Challenge keeps the ladder — 45 ranks from Qi Condensation Layer 1, a spirit root rolled once and locked — and removes the reload: when you die, the run is over. It is text-only, browser-only, single-player, narrated by an AI with an engine keeping score, and free for 40 turns with no card. It is not a replacement for Tale of Immortal's world and does not try to be. It is what you play when you realise the thing you wanted from the novels was the part where the heavens do not negotiate. New accounts open in our free-form wuxia sandbox; the Death Challenge is one tap away in the Hall — + New Avatar, then I'm not afraid to die. Start here →

FAQ

What games are like Tale of Immortal?

It depends which half of Tale of Immortal you liked. For the cultivation ladder in an open world: Seeking Immortality (best-reviewed cultivation game on Steam, 93%, but Chinese-only) and Destiny of Immortal (Early Access, English planned). For running a sect instead of being in one: Amazing Cultivation Simulator (Very Positive, 86%). For the sandbox jianghu without immortality: Hero's Adventure, The Matchless Kungfu and The Scroll of Taiwu, all wuxia. For a tighter RPG: Wandering Sword (94.9%). For the farm and the village: Immortal Life. For a phone: Tale of Immortal's own $9.99 mobile port.

Tale of Immortal or Amazing Cultivation Simulator?

Tale of Immortal ($19.99) is a single cultivator's life in an open world; Amazing Cultivation Simulator ($24.99) is a sect-management colony sim where your disciples cultivate, argue and die while you manage the whole apparatus. Steam reviews favour ACS: Very Positive at 86% of about 23,600 against Tale of Immortal's Mixed 56% of about 224,700 across all languages (Mostly Positive, 79%, in English only). Pick Tale of Immortal to be the protagonist; pick ACS to be the sect.

Is Tale of Immortal on mobile?

Yes. The official port by its own studio is $9.99 on Google Play (4.4 stars, 50,000-plus installs) and reached the App Store on 15 July 2025 as a 2.1 GB download, with English, Korean and Chinese. Complaints are a quest-blocking bug reported after 100-plus hours, touch fatigue without controller support, and no in-game guidance.

Is Tale of Immortal multiplayer?

No. Tale of Immortal is single-player only. The cultivation MMO question, answered →

Is The Scroll of Taiwu like Tale of Immortal?

In depth and in setting, only half. Taiwu is a wuxia simulation — martial artists in a human world, no realm ladder, no immortality — that finally left eight years of Early Access with English in June 2026. It is deeper and stranger than Tale of Immortal and its all-language score is Mixed (65%). Choose it for the living-world simulation, not for cultivation.

Are there games like Tale of Immortal in English?

Amazing Cultivation Simulator, Ascend From Nine Mountains, Wandering Sword, Hero's Adventure, The Matchless Kungfu, The Scroll of Taiwu (since June 2026), Immortal Life and Card Cultivation all have English interfaces. Seeking Immortality has only a fan translation and Destiny of Immortal has none until its full release.

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