Every day, millions of gamers around the world open Steam to play their favorite games, and when a major release arrives, it usually breaks previous records. The launch of Black Myth: Wukong Last week, along with the celebration of Gamescom 2024, not to mention that it’s mid-August, were enough reasons for Steam to once again break the record for concurrent users.
37.2 million concurrent players on Steam
As we can see on SteamDB, the maximum number of simultaneous players that the platform has had has been 37.2 million, surpassing the previous record of 36 million, a record reached 5 months ago and without producing a specific launch.
The maximum number of users who played Black Myth: Wukong on Steam was 2.4 milliona figure that is still behind PUBG, a title that arrived on the market in 2017 and which gathered 3.2 million simultaneous players via Steam.
It’s striking that a title set in traditional China has become a hit in terms of sales and user numbers on Steam, which makes sense since the majority of that platform’s users are located in that country.
The one it surpassed in terms of the number of concurrent players is Cyberpunk 2077 And Ring of Fireincluding its expansions, two big titles that apparently haven’t had the same success in China. What’s clear when looking at these numbers is that the actual statistics presented by Steam are very influenced by the Asian market
To the maximum peak of users that this title has reached on Steam, we should add the number of users who have enjoyed this title from the PlayStation 5, where it is also available, and the users who have purchased it through the Epic Games Store.
More than 10 million copies sold
According to what the game developer Game Science said a few days ago, in the first 3 days more than 10 million copies have been sold, including all stores and platforms where it is available. For now, the Xbox version It is not available and will take a few months to arrive, probably before the end of the year.
Black Myth: Wukong is a title RPG action game that invites us to discover ancient Chinese mythology, which, if we take into account sales and the number of concurrent users, must be very faithful to the story. The score you received in Metacritic It’s 81, a figure well below other big titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Elder Ring, titles which have a score on this platform of 89 with the Phantom Liberty expansion and 96 respectively.
