[STEAM] Black Myth: Wukong Has Massive Launch, Overtakes Cyberpunk 2077 to Become Most-Played Single-Player Game Ever on Steam

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has enjoyed an enormous launch on Steam, where it has overtaken

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to become the most-played single-player game ever on Valve’s platform.

The action RPG, developed by ******** studio Game Science, launched in the early hours of this morning and quickly shot to the top of Steam’s most-played games list with an incredible 1,443,570 peak concurrent players. That figure will surely grow as the working week heads into the weekend and more people buy the game.

Less than 24 hours after launch, ****** Myth: Wukong has already seen the fourth-highest concurrent figure ever on Steam, and is only behind PUBG (3,257,248), Palworld (2,101,867), and Valve’s own Counter-Strike 2 (1,818,773). It is ahead of big hitters such as Dota 2, Elden Ring, and Baldur’s Gate 3. Already the game has nearly 30,000 user reviews on Steam, with a ‘very positive’ user review rating.

****** Myth: Wukong’s launch will be even ******* than Steam suggests. It also released on PlayStation 5 (Sony Interactive Entertainment does not make PlayStation player numbers publicly available), Tencent’s ******** game portal WeGame, and the Epic Games Store. An Xbox Series X and S version is due out later (find out why

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IGN’s

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returned an 8/10. We said: “Despite some frustrating technical issues, ****** Myth: Wukong is a great action game with fantastic combat, exciting bosses, tantalizing secrets, and a beautiful world.”

If you’re jumping into ****** Myth: Wukong, be sure to check out our feature,

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This week, IGN verified an email sent from the

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marketing team that told content creators who were granted a Steam key that they must not include “feminist ***********” or use what are called “trigger words” such as COVID-19 in their coverage.

Game Science has yet to respond to

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compiling numerous sexist comments made by the studio's founders and other developers spanning the last decade.

Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on

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at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld.

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