If there’s a game many gamers have been waiting for, it’s Black Myth Wukong. Announced several years ago and shown as one of the great exponents of the graphics that Unreal Engine 5 can offer, Black Myth Wukong has just landed on consoles and PCs. It did so just a few hours ago, but it didn’t need more to make history in video games.
What happened? Black Myth Wukong has made a fast buck, as expected. Pre-downloads totaled 53 TB of bandwidth on Steam, surpassing Cyberpunk 2077’s record of 51 TB in 2020. Not surprisingly, with such a strong launch, the game has taken the top spot on Steam’s most-played games chart.
The record. Black Myth Wukong only needed a few hours to become the fourth most-played game in Steam’s history. It surpassed Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Dota 2, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. The number of players grew to 2,223,179 throughout the day, making it the second-most-played game in Steam history.
What the podium looks like. Let’s look at the SteamDB data. The top five most popular games on Steam are, from bottom to top, Lost Ark (1.3 million concurrent players), Counter-Strike 2 (1.8 million), Palworld (2.1 million), Black Myth Wukong (2.2 million), and PUBG (3.2 million).
Black Myth Wukong
What’s Black Myth Wukong about? Game Science was inspired by the book Journey to the West, published in the 16th century, to make this game. It’s one of the great classic Chinese novels. Journey to the West is to China, what Don Quixote is to Spain. In the game, we control a character inspired by Sun Wukong (the Monkey King) and face enemies and bosses. It’s a mixture of action RPG and fantasy with Souls that has been very well received and has managed to go down in the history of video games.
This article was written by Jose García and originally published in Spanish on Xataka.
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