On its launch day, Black Myth: Wukong has rocketed through the Steam charts to cement itself as one of the platform’s most popular games ever.
As I write this, Black Myth: Wukong, the action adventure from China’s Game Science studio, is the most played game on Steam by player count. There are currently 1,400,932 players in-game (with a peak of 1,443,570), surpassing the likes of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG and all the usual games that occupy Steam’s top five.
Wukong’s launch was already predicted to be strong, with the game being Steam’s number one seller for several weeks, but the concurrent player figures are quite staggering for a single-player, offline game.
Though the number of concurrent players continues to rise, even as it stands, this makes Black Myth: Wukong Steam’s fourth most popular game in its history, having just surpassed Lost Ark, and Dota 2 earlier in the day. Its next target is Counter-Strike 2, for which it’s going to need around 400,000 more players.
It’s going to be really interesting, however, if it manages to get close – or even overtake – Palworld, which achieved a peak of 2,101,867 at its most popular.
