Cultivating Immortality with 100 Dao Companions in the Cyber World

Introduction

Cultivating Immortality with 100 Dao Companions in the Cyber World, released 7 January 2026 by developer and publisher 雙峰狂詩曲, sets a Diablo-style top-down loot grinder inside a cyberpunk riff on Chinese xianxia cultivation fiction, tasking players with fighting through wastelands and dungeons, rolling gear stats, and building relationships with a large cast of companions, with adult content unlockable through an in-game patch. It sits Mixed on Steam. This review reads the Simplified Chinese sample closely, since it represents the overwhelming majority of the game's audience and the developer's clear home market, and it found a genuinely split reception: specific, repeated affection for the premise and loot systems set against an equally specific, equally repeated set of complaints about content volume, character variety, and price.

A premise reviewers like more than the execution

Multiple reviewers specifically credit the core concept, cultivation tropes recontextualised in a neon cyberpunk setting, as fresher than the genre usually offers, and several separately praise the gear and stat-roll systems for real depth, particularly bonuses tied to the game's central "dual cultivation" companion mechanic layered onto equipment stats. A specific, recurring group of reviewers describe the loot-grinding loop itself as addictive in short bursts, several logging ten, twenty, even over seventy hours despite otherwise harsh reviews of other systems, evidence the core gameplay loop has some real pull even for its critics. This review also found specific, standalone praise for a karaoke-and-nightclub social hub, several reviewers singling it out as a distinctly realised feature that the rest of the game's environments don't match in ambition or polish.

The "100 companions" problem

Set against that praise, this review found the single most repeated, most specific, and most damaging complaint in the entire sample: every female character in the game shares the same base body model, distinguished only by a small number of interchangeable hairstyles and outfits. Multiple reviewers independently and pointedly note this directly undercuts the game's own advertised premise of a hundred distinct companions, several counting closer to twenty unique combinations once outfit and hair overlaps are accounted for, and at least one detailed, highly-upvoted review frames the mismatch between the title's promise and this reality as approaching false advertising. This review treats the complaint as thoroughly well-corroborated: it recurs across dozens of independent reviewers, in specific and consistent detail, rather than as an isolated grievance.

Thin content, stiff combat

Beyond the character-model issue, this review found a second well-corroborated complaint cluster around content volume. Multiple reviewers separately describe the game as offering as few as two or three usable maps at launch, a single main dungeon, and one boss encounter whose only variation across the campaign is a stat increase rather than new mechanics or a new model. Several reviewers specifically criticise combat as stiff and underdeveloped, citing a small handful of skills, resource costs that discourage using them freely, and a lack of tactical variety that leaves most encounters feeling identical regardless of enemy type. A number of reviewers frame this generously, one specifically comparing the unfinished feel to a passion project still finding its footing rather than a cynical cash grab, but this review found the volume and specificity of the content complaints too consistent to treat as a minority view.

A well-corroborated price complaint

This review found a genuine, specific split on value, but one that leans decisively critical. Several reviewers explicitly call the roughly NZ$26 asking price unjustified given the current content, some comparing it directly to cheaper genre alternatives and specific competing adult-content titles they consider better value, and a detailed, highly-upvoted negative review describes discovering the game's true scope only after the two-hour Steam refund window had closed, warning other buyers to check the negative reviews carefully before purchasing rather than trusting the store page. Multiple supportive reviewers, even while recommending the game, separately and independently suggest waiting for a discount, undercutting the case for buying at full price even among the game's fans. Isolated reports additionally raise the possibility that the assets were partly AI-generated and that the developer may have already moved on to other projects; this review found these claims raised by only one or two reviewers each, not corroborated elsewhere in the sample, and treats them as unconfirmed rather than established.

Technical rough edges

Multiple reviewers separately report performance issues, including frame-rate drops during denser combat encounters and stuttering during fast travel or teleportation, and this review found a scattering of smaller, specific bug reports: missing background audio after repeated teleporting, quest markers that stop updating correctly, and inaccessible storage chests. None of these recur widely enough on their own to be treated as a defining problem, but combined with the performance complaints above, they reinforce the broader picture of a game that shipped before its systems were fully finished.

A region-specific build, and mixed feelings about it

This review found one more thread worth noting on its own: several reviewers describe the game shipping a build specifically for the Chinese Steam storefront that restores content otherwise restricted elsewhere, unlocked in-game through a documented key combination rather than a separate download. Some reviewers frame this as a considerate accommodation for players who otherwise couldn't access a region-appropriate version of the game at all, a few explicitly thanking the developer for the gesture. Others are more ambivalent, a handful of reviewers noting the unlock process itself is confusingly signposted, with more than one review describing initial confusion over where in the menus the key combination needed to be pressed before eventually finding it via other players' guidance in the review section itself. This review notes the mechanic as a real, specific detail of how the game is distributed rather than passing judgment on the practice itself, since reviewers' reactions to it were themselves genuinely mixed rather than uniformly positive or negative.

Final Verdict

Cultivating Immortality with 100 Dao Companions in the Cyber World has a genuinely interesting premise and a loot-grinding core its own critics admit is addictive, but it launched well short of what its own marketing promises, with reused character models undercutting its central selling point, thin content, and a price its own supporters frequently call unfair. Worth watching if the developer follows through on promised updates, but not recommended at full price today.