Black Myth: Zhong Kui Trailers and Official Videos
This page collects every official Black Myth: Zhong Kui video in release order. The three releases so far serve different purposes: a CG announcement, an in-engine holiday short and the first gameplay showcase.
1. The gameplay demo — August 20, 2026
The first gameplay showcase arrived one year after the reveal. Its 15 minutes of in-development footage show exploration, combat, a boss fight against 大蚌真君 and a closing montage. The video introduces sword combat, paper talismans, a spirit ally and the HUD. Read our Gameplay Deep Dive for the full timestamped analysis.
2. The Chinese New Year in-engine short — February 10, 2026
Six minutes of in-engine footage released ahead of Chinese New Year (February 17) as a Year-of-the-Horse gift — and deliberately weird: a wordless, darkly comic ghost-kitchen cooking scene. Game Science flagged it at the time as a holiday special unrelated to the actual plot (CEO Feng Ji joked it had “no controls, no combat, no gameplay, no Zhong Kui — because none of that was made yet”). In hindsight it offered early glimpses of things the real demo would later confirm: talisman fire, kitchen ghosts that look suspiciously like subdued underlings, and a clam spirit resembling the eventual boss. Full unpacking: did the ghost kitchen tease a boss?; contemporaneous report: Gematsu.
3. The reveal teaser — August 20, 2025 (gamescom ONL)
Where it started: the CG teaser that closed gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 as the show's “one more thing.” No gameplay — just the announcement that the Black Myth series would continue not with Wukong DLC, but with a new hero: Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller of Chinese folklore, shown here astride a tiger (an image inspired by a Ming-dynasty painting, per the studio). English dub above; the Chinese dub is on the same channel. Full unpacking: what the teaser showed us; contemporaneous report: Xinhua.
What hasn't been shown yet
Game Science has not released a date trailer, a platform-specific trailer or a preorder video. Those milestones will appear on the Latest Updates page when the studio announces them. New official videos will also be added here.
All videos embedded from Game Science's official Black Myth YouTube channel. Black Myth: Zhong Kui is developed by Game Science; footage belongs to its respective owners.
Sources & further reading
- Official gameplay demo (15 minutes) — Game Science, August 20, 2026. The video embedded in the gameplay-demo section.
- Official Chinese New Year in-engine short — Game Science, February 10, 2026. The video embedded in the Chinese New Year section.
- Official reveal teaser (English dub) — Game Science, August 20, 2025. The video embedded in the reveal-teaser section.
- Official gameplay demo upload (Chinese) — Game Science on Bilibili, August 20, 2026. Chinese-platform mirror of the gameplay demo.
- Gematsu on the Chinese New Year short — Gematsu, February 2026. Backs the release timing and holiday-special context of the CNY video.
- Xinhua on the gamescom 2025 reveal — Xinhua, August 20, 2025. Backs the announcement details in the reveal-teaser section.
- IGN’s reveal trailer page — IGN, August 2025. Additional hosting and context for the gamescom reveal teaser.
