A
month
after
launching,
Black
Myth:
Wukong
continues
to
do
extremely
well.
Over
on
Steam,
it’s
still
consistently
bringing
over
700,000
concurrent
players
every
single
day,
and
the
last
we
heard
it

had
sold
through
18m
copies.

Given
its
huge
success,
it’s
hardly
surprising
that
developer
Game
Science
already
has
an
expansion
in
the
works.
But
when
is
it
being
planned
for?

Well,
it
might
be
sooner
than
expected.
According
to

Daniel
Camilo,
an
analyst
living
in
China,
“very
reliable
first
hand
sources”
have
informed
him
that
the
expansion
will
release
around
Chinese
New
Year,
2025.
In
other
words,
sometime
around
January,
2025.

He
does
mention
that
things
can
always
change
and
release
dates
can
be
pushed
back.

It
would
be
an
impressively
quick
turn-around
for
an
expansion.
This
suggests
it
might
be
based
on
content
cut
from
the
main
game.
Early
trailers
for
the
game
show
sequences
that
never
appear
in
the
full
release,
and
Game
Science
themselves
have
commented
on
various
things
being
taken
out
for
budget
and
time
reasons.

Camilo,
who
has
written
for
various
websites
in
the
past
including
Gameindustry.biz,
also
says
the
game
has
surpassed
20m
in
sales
and
that
he
expects
around
20%
of
the
audience
to
pick
up
the
expansion.
That’s
around
4m
people,
though
by
the
time
it
launches
I’m
sure
that
the
total
sales
will
have
gone
up
by
a
few
million
more.

For
a
quick
comparison,
Elden
Ring
has
sold
around
25m
copies,
and
the
expansion
has
managed
5m
copies.
In
other
words,
20%
of
the
people
who
bought
Elden
Ring
went
on
to
buy
the
expansion
as
well.

Camilo
says
this
estimate
comes
from
a
few
factors,
including
the
game’s
difficulty.
Right
now,
about
34%
of
players
on
Steam
have
managed
to
beat
the
final
boss
and
see
one
of
the
game’s
endings.

“..at
least
a
few
millions
of
the
people
who
bought
the
game
in
China
are
not
core/hardcore
gamers.
For
many
of
those
consumers,
dlc
simply
won’t
be
an
interesting
proposition.”
says
Camilo.

Camilo
also
says
that
70%
of
the
game’s
sales
have
come
from
China,
and
that
by
the
time
the
expansion
releases,
“Novelty
&
National
pride
factor
will
be
gone
for
Chinese
consumers.”