Black Myth: Wukong is outstanding on Stream. Black Myth: Wukong is topy played game on Steam with a top 2151942 concurrent players at time of writing.
Developer Game Science retelling of Journey to the West in the second slot for the highest concurrent player counts ever on Steam.
Black Myth: Wukong is based on classic Chinese novel travel to the West, and players take on role of Sun Wukong the Destined One throughout the role playing game.
There is controversy related to release on it. Publisher Hero Games gave out a missive to few game streamers asking them not to discuss the chinese video game industry or feminist propaganda during their streams.
It was released on Aug 20 for PlayStation 5 and Windows PC and Xbox Series X release is expected at later date.
Black Myth:Wukong has reviewed well with score of 82 on review aggregator Metacritic.
Polygon called the game an epic saga that is both confounding.
GameDiscoverCo founder and analyst Simon Carless estimates that almost 5 am ET 88.1 % of the concurrent players were based in China with 3% from the US 1.6% from Hong Kong and 1% from Japan.
US playerbase wakes up and log on. Bloomberg said Tuesday that Black Myth Wukong generated a level of buzz the chinese gaming industry has not seen in years.