Black Myth: Wukong is already the 4th most played game ever on Steam, and 2nd highest this year

It
can
be
hard
to
gauge
exactly
how
excited
people
are
for
any
given
game
prior
to
its
release.
Black
Myth:
Wukong,
the
console
game
debut
from
Chinese
developer
Game
Science,
has
been
highly
anticipated,
but
I
certainly
didn’t
think
it
was
going
to
do
this
well.

The
PC
launch
has
gone
so
well
that
Black
Myth:
Wukong
currently
has
the
4th
highest
concurrent
player
count
ever
seen
on
Steam.
That’s
according
to
SteamDB
which
says
the
game
hit
a
peak
concurrent
player
count
of
1,443,570
players
just
four
hours
ago
as
I
write
this.

That’s
enough
for
the
game
to
claim

4th
place
in
terms
of
highest
concurrent
player
counts
of
all
time
on
Steam,
just
under
400,000
players
shy
of
beating
Counter
Strike
2’s
biggest
peak.

It
doesn’t
quite
give
Black
Myth:
Wukong
the
honour
of
being
the
most
played
game
of
the
year
so
far,
though
–
that
record
is
still
held
by
Palworld
which
achieved
a
peak
concurrent
player
count
of
2,101,287.
But
it
does
give
it
2nd
place.

Notable
games
Black
Myth:
Wukong
has
defeated
to
claim
its
4th
place
are
Cyberpunk
2077,
Elden
Ring
and
Baldur’s
Gate
3.

Of
course,
there’s
a
chance
Black
Myth’s
numbers
will
keep
growing.
Typically
games
will
hit
their
highest
numbers
in
the
first
day
or
two
and
then
taper
off,
but
sometimes
they
manage
to
keep
growing.
Helldivers
2
is
a
good
example,
as
is
Baldur’s
Gate
3.