Black Fantasy: Wukong has loved an infinite launch on Steam, the place it has overtaken Cyberpunk 2077 to grow to be the most-played single-player sport ever on Valve’s platform.
The motion RPG, developed by Chinese language studio Sport Science, launched within the early hours of this morning and rapidly shot to the highest of Steam’s most-played video games listing with an unimaginable 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 corresponding to Dota 2, Elden Ring, and Baldur’s Gate 3. Already the sport has almost 30,000 consumer opinions on Steam, with a ‘very constructive’ consumer overview score.
Black Fantasy: Wukong’s launch might be even larger than Steam suggests. It additionally launched on PlayStation 5 (Sony Interactive Leisure doesn’t make PlayStation participant numbers publicly accessible), 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 good motion sport with improbable fight, thrilling bosses, tantalizing secrets and techniques, and a stupendous world.”
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This week, IGN verified an e-mail despatched from the Black Fantasy: Wukong advertising and marketing staff that informed content material creators who had been granted a Steam key that they need to not embrace “feminist propaganda” or use what are known as “set off phrases” corresponding to COVID-19 of their protection.
Sport Science has but to answer 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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