Black Myth: Wukong has smashed its way into Steam's top-selling games and become the most-played single-player game in the platform's history. The record was previously held by Cyberpunk 2077, which peaked at 1,054,388 players back in 2020, but the record has now been smashed by Black Myth: Wukong in just a matter of hours.
After being announced all the way back in 2020, Black Myth: Wukong was finally released on August 20 for PlayStation 5 and PC. While the new action RPG will also be coming to Xbox consoles, developer Game Science had bad news for fans when it announced just two months before launch that Black Myth: Wukong had been delayed for Xbox Series X/S. There's currently no release date for Black Myth: Wukong on Xbox, but Game Science says the delay was due to the game not meeting the studio's standards on Microsoft's current generation of consoles.
Developer Game Science at last shows off Black Myth: Wukong PlayStation 5 gameplay footage just ahead of the action RPG's release.
With reviews for Black Myth: Wukong being mostly positive, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the game is already breaking records on Steam. In...