NetEase's 'Blood Message' Gets Playable Demo at Summer Game Fest 2026
Blood Message marks NetEase's first major push into AAA single-player territory, a departure from its online multiplayer track record, and the demo suggests the studio is aiming for a cinematic, set-piece-driven style.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer.
24 Entertainment, a NetEase subsidiary known for NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, showed a playable demo of its new single-player action adventure Blood Message at Summer Game Fest: Play Days 2026. The game is set in 9th-century China and follows a messenger carrying news of a rebellion to the Tang capital. A 19-minute walkthrough video was also released.
24 Entertainment, the NetEase subsidiary behind the battle royale hit NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, is working on a very different kind of game. Blood Message is a single-player action adventure set in 848 AD, during the historical Shazhou uprising. The protagonist, Pei Changguan, is one of ten messengers dispatched to carry word of the rebellion to the Tang capital Chang'an. The demo shown at Summer Game Fest: Play Days 2026 emphasizes stealth, climbing, and companion-based combat, with the player working alongside an ally named Arrtai. A 19-minute walkthrough video of the same demo has also been released. No release date or platforms have been announced, but a Japanese-language official website is already live.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.