The Game I Made Is So Real, Players Around the World Are Going Crazy

Lin Chuan is on the verge of bankruptcy. His studio has only 3,000 yuan left in its account, all the employees have quit, and everyone online is laughing at his final game, Wasteland Walker, before it even launches.

“A 300 MB open world?”

“Playable on integrated graphics?”

“Another Chinese indie game trying to pass itself off as AAA?”

Then the game launches.

A player steals a loaf of bread from an NPC and is hunted by the entire settlement the next day.

A streamer casually burns down a forest, and three days later the area has become a monster nest.

Someone saves a dying old man. More than ten hours later, the old man returns with the whole village to repay the favor.

The entire internet falls silent.

Then it goes completely wild.

Because this isn’t a game at all.

It’s a real world that remembers grudges, changes, and breathes.

And all of this is just the first game Lin Chuan creates after obtaining the primordial AI, Nuwa.

Later, he makes a shooter so realistic it drives professional players to the brink of a breakdown.

He creates a fantasy world where a single punch can shatter mountains, the Kunpeng blocks out the sky, and creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas roam the land.

He creates a supernatural horror game where the rules change and ghosts learn the players’ habits.

He creates a vast multiverse where every NPC has a life of their own.

But as the games grow more and more realistic, real-world hardware is the first to give out.

Graphics cards crash.

CPUs blow up.

Servers burn out.

Players around the world curse him even as they beg him for updates.

In an interview, Lin Chuan says just one thing:

“I really wasn’t trying to make graphics cards and CPUs.”

“My games forced this era to upgrade.”