Black Myth: Zhong Kui Trailers — Every Official Video in One Place
Game Science doles out Black Myth: Zhong Kui footage about once a year, on its own schedule. This page collects every official video in release order, with the context of what each one actually is — because the three videos so far show three very different things.
1. The gameplay demo — August 20, 2026
The big one: the first real gameplay, released on the studio's traditional August 20 date — a year after the reveal. About 15 minutes from an in-development build (21:9, with an explicit early-development disclaimer): one unbroken take of exploration and combat, a full multi-phase boss fight against “True Lord Giant Clam,” and a montage of further scenes including the famous tiger-riding shot. It shows the sword-and-talisman combat, the ghost-summon and possession system, and the HUD for the first time. Read our frame-by-frame breakdown for everything in it.
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 quietly introduced 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 actually told us; contemporaneous report: Xinhua.
What hasn't been shown yet
No release date trailer, no platform trailer, no pre-order video — for those milestones, watch the release date tracker. New official videos get added to this page the day they drop.
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.
