While Game Science's Black Myth: Wukong is technically an action RPG, it is a bit of a mixed bag of influences, with many onlookers even calling it a "Soulslike" ahead of its release. However, although Black Myth: Wukong does offer the level of challenge associated with the Soulslike genre, it has a tendency to lean more toward the action RPG genre as a whole in many of its other features. Within that space, it pulls much of its inspiration from Santa Monica's rebooted God of War series, to the point that the two look nearly identical in some areas.