Due to the overwhelming success of Black Myth: Wukong, over 37 million players were online on Steam for the first time in the PC platform's history.
Steam set a new record for the number of simultaneous players on August 25, 2024, as 37,266,324 users were online simultaneously according to player tracking website SteamDB, reports PC Gamer.
Steam's popularity has always been growing gradually, but this surge in player numbers, which grew from around 34 million for most of July and early August to eventually peaking at 37 million, coincided with the record-breaking release of Black Myth: Wukong.
The action role-playing game based on Chinese mythology and the famous story Journey to the West launched with 2,223,179 concurrent players on Steam, becoming the most played single-player launch ever on Valve's platform, surpassing Cyberpunk 2077. It is currently the second most played Steam game of all time, trailing PUBG.
Developer Game Science soon revealed that Black Myth: Wukong had sold 10 million copies in just three days and had three million concurrent players across all platforms. This puts it in the category of fastest-selling video games like Pokémon.
IGN reports on a super cool Black Myth: Wukong secret that allows you to summon a boss to defeat another boss while you basically do nothing, and how An optional boss encountered very early in the game is absolutely destroying players. While you're here, IGN has plenty of Black Myth: Wukong guides to help you out, including Essential Tips and Tricks, Black Myth: Things Wukong doesn't tell youand our Boss List and Guides,
However, not all press has been positive, as Game Science has been criticized after it told content creators who were given Steam keys that they must not include “feminist propaganda” in their coverage or use “trigger words” such as COVID-19.
Game Science has also not yet responded to this. Previous report by IGN It compiles a number of sexist comments made by the studio's founders and other developers over the past decade.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll be talking about The Witcher all day.