On August 20, 2024, Black Myth Wukong was released on PC on Steam. Very quickly, the concurrent player count of the Chinese action RPG began breaking records.
Ultimately, the peak concurrent player count of Black Myth Wukong on Steam reached 2,415,714 players — the closest result belongs to the previously hyped “survival game with Pokémon” Palworld (2,101,867).
Four months after its release, Black Myth Wukong received over a million reviews on Steam, 96% of which are positive.
According to data from “Steam Reviews Language Breakdown”, about 970 thousand reviews are written in Simplified Chinese and around 9.8 thousand in Traditional Chinese. There are 69.2 thousand reviews in English, and 9.1 thousand in Russian.
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