Just a few hours after its debut, Black Myth: Wukong is already breaking records on Steam. Black Myth: Wukong is currently the most popular game on Steam with a peak of 2,151,942 concurrent players at the time of writing. This puts developer Game Science's retelling Journey to the West in the second slot for the largest number of simultaneous players Always on Steam, subscription only PUBG: Battlegroundsthe peak of which occurred in January 2018 and amounted to 3,257,248 people.
Black Myth: Wukong surpassed Elden Ring, Dota 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Counter-Strike 2And Pulworld – all of them have impressive records for the number of simultaneous players. Black Myth: Wukong is also available on PlayStation 5 and Windows PC via the Epic Games Store and the Chinese platform WeGame; the Steam record does not include players on those platforms. WeGame reportedly has around 80 million monthly players, according to the developer FAQ pageSteam had 132 million monthly active users in 2021.