It even surpassed Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077 in terms of the highest player count ever.
One of the most anticipated titles of the current generation of consoles is Black Myth: Wukong. The spirit-like work was first introduced in 2020, and every year since then there have been a handful of trailers and related marketing materials, gradually raising our expectations sky-high. It’s no wonder then that four years after its debut, a large portion of the Steam population has pounced on it, with 1,443,570 customers having played Black Myth: Wukong at some point. It’s probably not an exaggeration to assume that most of them are Chinese.
Anyway, thanks to this result I On the SteamDB Leaderboard Game Science's creation reached the fourth place based on the highest number of players ever, behind only multiplayer games (PUBG, Palworld, Counter-Strike 2). In Hungary, it left Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring behind. The last word is especially big, since Black Myth borrowed many elements from the software masterpiece.
The game doesn't really seem to need sales promotion tools, but it does. IGN Its Chinese branch also released more gameplay material, specifically from the PS5 version. Perhaps also to allay concerns about the console version, as no tests have been conducted on it yet, and players don't really know what performance to expect.
Black Myth: Wukong launches worldwide today on PC and PlayStation 5. An Xbox Series X/S version is expected to release sometime in the future.
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