Wuthering Waves is an open-world action role-playing game from Kuro Games, set on an Earth rebuilding after a catastrophe left the landscape scattered with hostile creatures called Tacet Discords.
Combat is the game's focus and is faster than most in its genre. It is built around parrying and dodging: an enemy attack met with correctly timed input opens a counter window, and chaining those windows is how difficult fights are won. Characters swap mid-combo, with an Intro and Outro skill system that rewards switching at the right moment rather than treating each character as a separate turn.
The Echo system replaces conventional equipment. Defeated enemies drop Echoes you can absorb, each granting a usable ability — summoning the creature to attack, or transforming into it — alongside stat bonuses. Building a character means choosing which Echoes complement their kit.
Traversal is unusually free: characters can run along walls, grapple, glide and swim, so the world is navigated vertically as much as horizontally.
The game is free to download, monetised through a gacha system for new characters and weapons, with the main story playable without spending. It runs on Windows, Android and iOS with cross-platform progress on a single account.
Kuro Games, the Chinese studio behind Punishing: Gray Raven, develops Wuthering Waves and publishes it globally through HK Kuro Games Limited.
