Greater than 37 million gamers had been on-line on Steam for the primary time within the PC platform’s historical past thanks to the raging success of Black Fable: Wukong.
As reported by PC Gamer, Steam hit a brand new file variety of concurrent gamers on August 25, 2024, as precisely 37,266,324 customers had been on-line without delay in accordance to participant monitoring web site SteamDB.
The recognition of Steam is at all times rising step by step however this spike in gamers, taking it from round 34 million throughout most of July and early August to the eventual 37 million quantity, coincided with the record-breaking launch of Black Fable: Wukong.
The motion role-playing sport set inside Chinese language mythology and the well-known story Journey to the West launched to an unlimited 2,223,179 concurrent gamers on Steam and subsequently overtook Cyberpunk 2077 as essentially the most performed single-player launch of all time on Valve’s platform. It’s at present the second most-played Steam sport of all time, behind solely PUBG.
Developer Recreation Science quickly revealed that Black Fable: Wukong offered 10 million copies in simply three days and had three million concurrent gamers throughout all platforms. That places it up there with the likes of Pokémon within the fastest-selling online game class.
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Not all press has been constructive, nevertheless, as Recreation Science has been criticised for telling content material creators who had been granted a Steam key that they need to not embody “feminist propaganda” or use what are known as “set off phrases” reminiscent of COVID-19 of their protection.
Recreation Science can be but to reply to IGN’s earlier report compiling quite a few sexist feedback made by the studio’s founders and different builders spanning the final decade.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.