Black Fantasy: Wukong has loved an infinite launch on Steam, the place it has overtaken Cyberpunk 2077 to change into the most-played single-player sport ever on Valve’s platform.
The motion RPG, developed by Chinese language studio Game Science, launched within the early hours of this morning and shortly shot to the highest of Steam’s most-played video games record with an unbelievable 1,443,570 peak concurrent gamers. That determine will certainly develop because the working week heads into the weekend and extra individuals purchase the sport.
Lower than 24 hours after launch, Black Fantasy: Wukong has already seen the fourth-highest concurrent determine ever on Steam, and is simply behind PUBG (3,257,248), Palworld (2,101,867), and Valve’s personal Counter-Strike 2 (1,818,773). It’s forward of massive hitters similar to Dota 2, Elden Ring, and Baldur’s Gate 3. Already the sport has practically 30,000 person opinions on Steam, with a ‘very optimistic’ person overview ranking.
Black Fantasy: Wukong’s launch will likely be even larger than Steam suggests. It additionally launched on PlayStation 5 (Sony Interactive Leisure doesn’t make PlayStation participant numbers publicly out there), Tencent’s Chinese language sport portal WeGame, and the Epic Video games Retailer. An Xbox Collection X and S model is due out later (discover out why right here).
IGN’s Black Fantasy: Wukong overview returned an 8/10. We mentioned: “Regardless of some irritating technical points, Black Fantasy: Wukong is a superb motion sport with incredible fight, thrilling bosses, tantalizing secrets and techniques, and a good looking world.”
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This week, IGN verified an electronic mail despatched from the Black Fantasy: Wukong advertising workforce that informed 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” similar to COVID-19 of their protection.
Game Science has 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.
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