河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)

Released Nov 2018

Ho Tu Lo Shu: The Books of Dragon offers a highly freedom to play in an wuxia style open world. With realistic art style and rich character development, you can explore a vast wuxia world and create your own adventure with the company of various memorable characters.

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Evaluation

Ho Tu Lo Shu: The Books of Dragon launched on November 14, 2018 and received a solid run of post-launch updates. The developer shipped several feature patches through 2018–2020 that added meaningful new systems — difficulty modes, an Yin-Yang martial arts system, quest additions, and UI improvements. The most substantial post-launch content arrived on February 1, 2021 with the "Everlasting Friendship" patch (v1.33), which introduced a full companion friendship system with new quests, dialogues, and achievements. A follow-up bug fix and a final content patch adding new quests and achievements shipped in February and March 2021 respectively. The last developer post directly related to this game's development was March 22, 2021. Since then, the developer has moved on to a new title — 天外武林 (Traveler of Wuxia), which launched on January 6, 2023. A January 5, 2023 news post on this game's page announced that new release and promoted a cross-game bundle, which is consistent with the developer wrapping up support for this game and shifting focus. The most recent post on this game's page (April 2, 2025) is a cross-promotional bundle announcement involving multiple wuxia titles — not a development update for this game. The only DLC listed is the official soundtrack, which released on April 26, 2021. There are no unreleased DLC items, no announced future content, and no developer statement of ongoing work on this title. The pattern of updates — steadily tapering off in early 2021 after increasingly large gaps — is consistent with a game that has reached the end of its content development. The developer's focus has clearly shifted to their follow-up project.

Evidence

Developer announced their new game Traveler of Wuxia launching January 6, 2023, and promoted a cross-game bundle. Signals the developer's focus has shifted away from this title.

news post · Jan 5, 2023 source development ending

high

Final content patch (v1.33) adding new quests, events, and achievements. Last development-focused update for the game.

news post · Mar 22, 2021 source content shipped

high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Released

河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon) OST

Apr 2021

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Details

Developer

香港商河洛互動娛樂股份有限公司

Publisher

香港商河洛互動娛樂股份有限公司

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

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Steam Deck

Unsupported

Players

Single-player

Martial Arts RPG Open World Wuxia Sandbox Multiple Endings Story Rich 3D Turn-Based Loot Strategy Moddable Adventure 6DOF Simulation

About this game

Ho Tu Lo Shu: The Books of Dragon inherits the trademark feature of Heluo, high degree of freedom for players, creating an wuxia style open world for the first time. With realistic art style and rich character development, Ho Tu Lo Shu：The Books of Dragon allows player to explore a vast wuxia world and create their own adventure with the company of various memorable characters.

Vast open world without loading screen

The biggest open world CRPGs ever made! Explore caves, mountains and all the secret areas hiding on the map, roam free and experience the beauty of this world. Run into rare encounter around the corner or chase mysterious legend across this breathing wuxia world where every NPCs have their own inventory, property, works, preferences and routines.

A quest to find a way home

Drifting in time and space, you accidentally came to this unfamiliar wuxia world. Eager to find a way back home, you begin your search on Ho Tu and Lo Shu, the two lost books of dragon. Follow clues and questlines, learn various styles of martial arts and gather fearless characters into your squad in order to fight your way through dangerous foes and sinister plot. Or simply venture off the track and dig into the story of the people you meet on the road. Help them along the way or betray them, it’s all your choice.

The next generation of turn-based strategy battle

No loading screen and background changes, fierce battle begins right on the spot. Spend your action point carefully on moving, using martial arts and items. Command the four members of your squad and face the challenges and surprises of fearsome beasts, honorable masters and cunning villains of Wulin.

Rich character development with flexible martial arts combination

Firmness, Softness, Quickness, Calmness, Cleverness and Dullness, among the six paths of inspirations, which one will you take? What kinds of profound techniques will you choose to master in each of the martial arts skill trees? With careful planning of your inspiration and martial arts, you will be able to build the one and only Xia of your ideal.