We knew it was going to work well but there is much more going on than that, it is in the process to break all launch records on Steam. Black Myth: Wukong, Game Science’s Chinese action RPG, is a worldwide hit, posting dizzying numbers despite the game’s release being slightly marred by controversy following critics’ reviews.
Black Myth Wukong, the best launch for a single-player game ever on Steam
We knew this could happen since the game was already the most pre-downloaded in Steam history but the numbers are just crazy. At the time of writing, Black Myth Wukong has reached a peak of 1,443,570 concurrent players on PC via Steam.
A stratospheric launch that surpasses that of, for example, Elden Ring (953,000) or Cyberpunk 2077 (1,054,000+), games considered to be the most anticipated games of the last decade.
Can it beat Steam’s records for all types of games? Not impossible even if we’re talking about ogres in terms of numbers since we’ll have to go for PUBG and Palworld which reached peaks of 3.26 million and 2.1 million simultaneous players respectively. It’s not impossible, Black Myth Wukong being particularly anticipated in China where the number of pre-downloads has been crazy and where it’s almost the end of the day, synonymous with rest and the launch of the game!
Game of the year?
It’s hard to say at the moment, but the game’s launch alone would deserve a trophy for blowing everything up despite the controversies. It seems difficult to see it beat the ogre Final Fantasy VII Rebirth released last February, the clear favorite to be elected game of the year next December, but given its popularity, if the game continues on this path and lives up to expectations, he could create a surprise next December.
In any case, the game already has nearly 40,000 ratings on Steam and 95% of them are positive, giving it the rating “extremely positive”already making it one of the highest rated games on the platform. It remains to be seen in the coming hours and days if the hype will die down, but one thing is now certain, China is capable of creating AAA games that rival Japan and the West and even more than that, of breaking all their records.
