Take Down Xunyou: You Call This a Small Game Studio?

Chen Yu wakes up to find himself at the helm of a small game studio on the brink of bankruptcy—its fate sealed after falling victim to the plagiarism of Xunyou Group. Just as he absorbs the mess he has inherited, a mysterious cheat manifests before his eyes, leaving him lost in thought. So copying is your specialty, huh? Fine then—if you can copy, so can I! Before long, the heads of every major game company are left buzzing. "Domestic games aren't supposed to be like this! You're supposed to build the payment system first and lock the best gear behind microtransactions. The moment a rival title shows a hint of going viral, you swoop in with a lowball acquisition, poach its staff, unleash paid trolls to smear it, then seize the moment to release a reskinned clone and rake in the cash! After that come the crossovers, the sponsorships, and the merciless milking of the IP until the very last drop of value is squeezed out! How can you just come out and make an actual game? Domestic games are nothing like this!" "Selling a thousand copies already takes serious effort. We only managed a thousand last year ourselves. Come fleece the players alongside us—two thousand copies isn't out of the question!" "What do you mean he sold a thousand copies in a single hour?" This is the story of a studio's climb from bankruptcy to the throne of the gaming industry, and of a man's journey from standing completely alone to commanding a business empire—a tale of game development, entrepreneurship, and business warfare across the internet age.