Nine Springs 九泉

One line

A turn-based CRPG set in a sealed Chinese mega-bunker three kilometres underground, eighty years after the world above died.

Short (50 words)

Nine Springs is a turn-based isometric CRPG set in a sealed Chinese mega-bunker, eighty years after the world above died. Ration water, learn forbidden fighting styles, and decide who controls the last breathable air, while the digital ghosts of the dead whisper through the network.

Long

Nine Springs (九泉) was built to house three million people in one self-sustaining arcology, sunk three kilometres into the rock to outlast heat, storms and war. When the White Bloom, a fungus made to kill crop pests that learned to kill everything warm-blooded, swept the world above, the bunker sealed its gates.

Eighty years later, 200,000 survivors cling to failing machines. The Bureau hoards clean air at the top, a syndicate controls the water pumps below, cybernetic kung-fu schools guard their floors, and the corrupted AI copies of the dead haunt every network. You are a nobody from the Market Square. What you learn, who you serve and what you unleash will decide whether the Springs ever opens again.

九泉, "the nine springs", is also the old Chinese name for the land of the dead. For players of Underrail, Fallout 1 and 2, ATOM RPG and Wasteland.

中文简介

《九泉》是一款回合制等距视角CRPG。地表文明毁灭八十年后，二十万幸存者困守在地下三千米的封闭巨型避难城中。 配给饮水，修习被禁的武学，决定谁掌控最后的空气——而亡者的数字幽魂，仍在网络中低语。

Force Ape (气猿工作室) is an independent game studio founded in 2026 by Forrest Sun to make Nine Springs. Force Ape is 气猿 in Chinese: 气 (qi), the breath and inner power the game calls Force, with the ape that teaches the sword in Chinese legend.