Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has launched as a new soulslike on Steam. However, many players advise against purchasing it, as the game’s performance issues are significant and the soulslike runs smoothly for very few players.
With Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, a new soulslike and action RPG has officially launched on Steam.
According to SteamDB, the game launched on the night of July 24, 2025, with more than 100,000 players. However, the reviews on Steam are very negative. Currently, the game has more than 8,000 reviews marked “extremely negative”: Only 19% are positive. Many players currently advise against purchasing it.
Performance Issues due to Unreal Engine 5
What is the game’s problem? The game’s issue is “Unreal Engine 5” and the associated catastrophic performance: The game does not run smoothly at all, with frame drops, graphical glitches, and crashes. All issues that nearly every UE5 game has struggled with in the past. For example, Oblivion Remastered still suffers from severe performance issues. A major exception: Black Myth: Wukong is one of the few UE5 titles that runs smoothly.
Players are also complaining about the lack of optimization in Wuchang, and the reviews on Steam are accordingly devastating.
What do players say? Many users who have purchased the game currently advise against buying it and recommend urgently waiting for a few updates or a sale. In its current state, the game is far too expensive. One person writes on Steam:
Don’t buy it, wait and see. Watch the reviews and updates and see if the performance issues are fixed. Maybe you’ll buy it at a significant discount. At the current price, I can’t recommend it.
Another player adds that Black Myth: Wukong is well optimized. For this reason, one doesn’t have to endure Wuchang (on Steam):
I know I haven’t invested much time, but the performance of Wuchang is terrible. If I can play Wukong with max settings, there’s no reason this game should look and play like this.
What’s next? The reviews on Steam have been extremely negative so far, so it’s only a matter of time before the development team comments on the issues and difficulties. So far, there has been no statement and the developers have not commented on the performance.
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor also launched on Steam years ago, but the initial reviews were terrible due to performance issues. Many people complain: Even with top hardware, the FPS remains extremely low. To this day, the game has performance problems: Star Wars game for 70 euros had a disastrous launch on Steam, players complain: “An RTX 3090 is not good enough for the game”
