Updated · August 2026

Reap and Rush Wiki

Field manual for Beijing Pacifier Technology’s action roguelike: horde combat, Five Elements, Fate Stones, Yin Spells, Tributes, the Book of Life and Death, and the living patch cycle after the July 2026 Steam launch.

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Reap and Rush underworld combat screenshot

Guides for a living launch

The full game shipped on 21 July 2026 with four maps, five difficulty tiers, 200+ Fate Stones and 30+ skills. Start with literacy, then codes, then True Realm / Asura planning.

All Reap and Rush guides

Collection hub for how-to pages.

How to Play

Loop, duties, and build pillars.

Codes & passphrases

Carrot NPC rumor and Five Flowers.

Difficulties

Tiers 1–5, True Realm, Asura, Shura.

Five Elements

Lane filters for Soulstones and Yin Laws.

Map & spaces

Chenghuang, Lishan, Headwind, Wangxiang.

Walkthrough

Session order without fake room IDs.

How to Beat

Ancestral Dragon, Xu Fu, event rooms.

Achievements

99 Steam badges and false unlocks.

Build desk after the patches

Post-launch notes name Soulstones, Yin Laws, Tributes, sealing in the Archive, Headwind Express, and Awakened Fate Stones. Treat those as the real vocabulary, not generic roguelike labels.

All build pages

Hub for stones, spells, tributes, seal.

Fate Stones

Identity locks, Superbody, Awakening.

Soulstones

Orbiting types, reforging, Kanli Star.

Tributes

Offerings, Blessing Knot, Five Emperors’ Coins.

Archive & Seal

Book of Life and Death, Soul Crystal cost.

Envoys named in patches

White Crow (Bai Ya) has a supporter skin. Bingyi has ice-spike awakenings. Nv Ba’s talent tree was reworked. Zhong Kui is still the missing boss you can transform into.

Envoy collection

Roster evaluation without fake tiers.

White Crow

Underworld agent and DLC skin notes.

Bingyi

Jiangchao awakening and continue-save traps.

Companions

Gust, Century Egg, Golden calves.

Nv Ba

Talent tree rework after 1.0.2.

Economy, pets, paper

Wangxiang Property unlocks Resource Exchange with Di Ting for Soul Crystals and Tear Flowers. Pets live in the Spirit Beast Cafe. Paper crafts still fill shop gaps.

Item collection

Crafts, relics, currency, beasts.

Currency

Banknotes, overflow freeze, Abacus tribute.

Spirit Beasts

Gale cooldown, Pidan, Houtu Empress.

Paper Crafts

Effigies, Paper Calf, selling UI.

Controls after 1.0.x

Patches added Interact and Support Chest Drop binds, Steam Deck virtual keyboard, template activation on mouse, and ESC cursor bugs. Remap once, then lock.

Controls collection

Keyboard, pad, settings.

Keyboard

Templates, ESC, Space/Ctrl label overlap.

Controller

Talent pages, continue cursor, tutorial overlap.

Settings

Post-process floor, borderless default, pause on blur.

Steam Deck

Virtual keyboard and pad focus.

Review, patches, DLC

Sales crossed 30,000. Reviews sit in the mid-hundreds. Launch discount ended. A free Ghost Festival DLC is promised with a new hero and Karma / Demerit mode.

Review collection

Verdict, audience, living notes.

Patch notes

1.0.1 through 12 August 2026.

DLC

Supporter Bundle, OST, free mid-autumn plan.

Verdict

Who the loop is for after the hotfix storm.

Planner

Use the checker as a sentence prompt, then verify against current patch behavior—especially sealing costs and tribute math.

Synergy Checker

Element + stone + spell + craft prompt.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Reap and Rush?+

A single-player Steam action roguelike about underworld envoys, Yaoguai hordes, and Chinese-myth workplace satire. Zhong Kui is missing.

Is this official?+

No. reapandrush.wiki is an independent fan site.

Are there codes?+

August 6 added a Carrot NPC rumor pointing to Five Flowers. Extra Carrot phrases appear in public Steam reviews; verify only in the official client.

Does it support controllers?+

Steam lists full controller support. Patches keep fixing pad UI focus.

What languages does this wiki cover?+

English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Korean. Simplified Chinese is not offered here.