The creators of Black Myth: Wukong apologized for “serious problems” at launch, and the game itself has already reached the second place for peak online in Steam history

Developers from the Chinese studio Game Science published a statement about the state of the fantasy action role-playing game Black Myth: Wukong at release, and the game itself, meanwhile, continues to amaze with its popularity on Steam.

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Since its debut today, Black Myth: Wukong has already received more than 100 thousand reviews on Steam (96% of them positive). Players are dissatisfied mainly with technical aspects (crashes, freezes, bugs).

In a statement released, Game Science “sincerely apologized” for the “sometimes serious issues” currently encountered in the game and promised to prioritize resolving them.

The developers assured that the game went through a lot of internal testing before release, and explained the occurrence of such troubles by the variety of configurations on which Black Myth: Wukong runs.

Unlike other leaders in the ranking, Black Myth: Wukong is a strictly single-player game (image source: Steam)

As for popularity, less than a day after the release, Black Myth: Wukong reached more than 2.223 million concurrent players on Steam – according to this indicator, the new product is already ahead of Counter-Strike 2 (1.818 million) and Palworld (2.101 million).

Black Myth: Wukong’s personal best is the second most successful in Steam history. For more than six years, PUBG: Battlegrounds has remained at the top of the rankings with a peak online figure of 3.257 million people.

Black Myth: Wukong was released on PC (Steam, EGS, WePlay) and PS5, but the version for Xbox Series X and S is delayed. The game was created based on the classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West.” Critics called the project an excellent action film.