Fallen Feathers Dev reportedly disbanded

It hasn't even been a year since Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, a Soulslike Action RPG from Leenzee and published by 505 Games, was released on PC and major consoles, but it seems that its developer is no more.

In a new report from GamerSky, citing sources at Bilibili and others, Wuchang director, Xia Siyuan, was fired before the Chinese New Year, although the producer is still actively working on the games. However, the same cannot be said for Leenzee employees, who were offered outsourcing but declined, leading to layoffs and layoffs.

Eve from Stellar Blade next to Bai from Wuchang: Fallen Feathers.

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News has broken that Wuchang: Fallen Feathers will only be released on July 24th. It also comes amid a number of big events and restructuring in the gaming industry, including most recently at Neopal, the studio behind The First Berserker: Khazan, another Soulslike title.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers was not particularly well received

As it stands, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers maintains a 74 rating from critics on Metacritic based on 90 reviews and a user score of 6.9 based on 843 ratings. TheGamer's Joshua Robertson awarded it a 3/5 in his review, writing, “Wuchang often shows glimpses of the game it could be, but disappointment upon disappointment sours the entire experience.”

The title opened to 131,518 players on Steam on its launch day, but saw that number drop within days. Notably, the game lost nearly 50,000 players within a week of its launch, an almost unheard of figure for a primarily single-player offering.

In the last 24 hours, Wuchang had a 24-hour concurrent of 3,349 players, with 514 players actively involved in the game, at the time of writing.

Wuchang has been the subject of several “review bombs”, including one as recent as last August following an update that disqualified certain bosses and NPCs due to backlash in China. Elsewhere, frustrations with the game's design, difficult boss fights, as well as performance issues plagued the title. As is usually the case in these instances, players began “fixing” the game themselves with a number of patch-related mods.

In the background, its developer, Leenzee, became one of several studios to offer a sincere apology to gamers for the title's problems.

“We ask for your patience as we address these optimizations step by step. We hope that one day, both our work and our team will meet your expectations,” a post read.