Black Myth: Wukong Released to Near Record Engagement

Black Myth: Wukong Released to Near Record Engagement
[Aug 20, 2024, 12:42 pm ET] – 33 Comments

Black Myth: Wukong is now available for PC and PlayStation 5, and you can pick up the Windows edition of Games Science's action/RPG on the Epic Games Store and Steam (the Xbox Series X|S edition will follow). There's no launch discount, though Epic purchases include the store's 5% reward. Here's the previous Final Trailer with a loving look at the game and its environments. And in the short time since the launch the game has soared up the Steam Most Played Charts, which currently list a concurrent player peak of 2,223,179 players. According to SteamDB this surpasses peak player counts for Palworld and Counter-Strike 2, and is second only to the all-time peak of 3,257,248 players achieved by PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS. Here's word on the game and its classic inspirations:

Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. The story is based on Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.

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