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Black Myth: Wukong

Game Science · 2024-08-19

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ActionAdventureRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Aug 20, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 20, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Aug 20, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.

Black Myth: Wukong is an Action, Adventure, and RPG game released in 2024, priced at $41.99, with an estimated 50,000,000 .. 100,000,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 1212012 reviews).

9,518
playing now
96%
positive of 1.2M reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000,000–100,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
666
twitch viewers (latest)
11.5
viewers/channel (concentration)
88/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
89/100
IGDB user rating (235 ratings)
943
Nexus mods (5.1M downloads)
4.50★
PlayStation Store rating (219,032 ratings)
82/100
opencritic · strong · 81% recommend · from 105 critics
44h
to beat · rushed 26h · completionist 68h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$41.99
steam price (US)

9,518 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Black Myth: Wukong‍ is a 2024 action role-playing game developed and published by the Chinese studio Game Science. The player assumes the role of the Destined One, a staff-wielding monkey, who embarks on a journey to recover six relics corresponding to Sun Wukong's six senses. The game is inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West. It is the first installment in the Black Myth series.

Trailer

Black Myth: Wukong trailer thumbnail

Black Myth: Wukong - Final Trailer | PS5 Games

≈847,047 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 9,518 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9,788 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,224/week).
  • · Review velocity up 68% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,536 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-10-03

Tier history: thriving→healthy (Oct 3), healthy→thriving (Oct 2), thriving→healthy (Sep 28)

Estimated sales: 24M–55M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,213,776 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $37.99 at AllYouPlay (2026-08-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 5 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16k16k20252026Week of 2025-01-01: 15,637 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 565 negativeWeek of 2025-01-07: 2,064 positiveWeek of 2025-01-07: 139 negativeWeek of 2025-01-14: 1,801 positiveWeek of 2025-01-14: 107 negativeWeek of 2025-01-21: 1,858 positiveWeek of 2025-01-21: 125 negativeWeek of 2025-01-28: 1,919 positiveWeek of 2025-01-28: 101 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6,304 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 394 negativeWeek of 2025-02-04: 1,752 positiveWeek of 2025-02-04: 120 negativeWeek of 2025-02-11: 1,413 positiveWeek of 2025-02-11: 85 negativeWeek of 2025-02-18: 1,575 positiveWeek of 2025-02-18: 87 negativeWeek of 2025-02-25: 1,368 positiveWeek of 2025-02-25: 80 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4,944 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 314 negativeWeek of 2025-03-04: 1,156 positiveWeek of 2025-03-04: 85 negativeWeek of 2025-03-11: 1,120 positiveWeek of 2025-03-11: 62 negativeWeek of 2025-03-18: 1,022 positiveWeek of 2025-03-18: 72 negativeWeek of 2025-03-25: 1,000 positiveWeek of 2025-03-25: 60 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3,669 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 267 negativeWeek of 2025-04-08: 841 positiveWeek of 2025-04-08: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-04-15: 960 positiveWeek of 2025-04-15: 77 negativeWeek of 2025-04-22: 760 positiveWeek of 2025-04-22: 58 negativeWeek of 2025-04-29: 864 positiveWeek of 2025-04-29: 67 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3,323 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 238 negativeWeek of 2025-05-06: 674 positiveWeek of 2025-05-06: 41 negativeWeek of 2025-05-13: 682 positiveWeek of 2025-05-13: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-05-20: 724 positiveWeek of 2025-05-20: 61 negativeWeek of 2025-05-27: 838 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 59 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5,478 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 436 negativeWeek of 2025-06-03: 789 positiveWeek of 2025-06-03: 66 negativeWeek of 2025-06-10: 835 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 72 negativeWeek of 2025-06-17: 1,569 positiveWeek of 2025-06-17: 126 negativeWeek of 2025-06-24: 2,006 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 158 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 8,518 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 581 negativeWeek of 2025-07-08: 1,541 positiveWeek of 2025-07-08: 149 negativeWeek of 2025-07-15: 1,341 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 96 negativeWeek of 2025-07-22: 2,783 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 124 negativeWeek of 2025-07-29: 1,985 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 107 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6,410 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 631 negativeWeek of 2025-08-05: 1,339 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 72 negativeWeek of 2025-08-12: 1,352 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 63 negativeWeek of 2025-08-19: 1,662 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 340 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 1,207 positiveWeek of 2025-08-26: 115 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2,960 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 252 negativeWeek of 2025-09-02: 868 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 71 negativeWeek of 2025-09-09: 723 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 64 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 631 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 61 negativeWeek of 2025-09-23: 514 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 36 negativeWeek of 2025-09-30: 709 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2,709 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 638 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-10-14: 688 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 53 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 514 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-10-28: 489 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2,149 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2025-11-04: 464 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 36 negativeWeek of 2025-11-11: 447 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 503 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 47 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 553 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1,837 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 158 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 402 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 375 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 425 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 40 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 440 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 491 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 40 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1,875 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 445 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 409 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 402 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 31 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 369 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3,050 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 370 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 399 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 44 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 857 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 119 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 1,086 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 142 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 838 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 81 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2,480 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 263 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 667 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 76 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 554 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 59 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 513 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 49 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 461 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 42 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 393 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 36 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1,480 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 376 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 40 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 319 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 331 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 342 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 33 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1,360 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 121 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 280 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 289 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 270 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 330 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,552 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 353 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 359 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 412 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 31 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 340 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 355 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1,600 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 165 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 398 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 52 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 353 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 361 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 30 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 386 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 41 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4,231 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 517 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 389 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 31 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 183 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2,494 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 268 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 661 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 66 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

26k2.2k2026-09-14 18:00 — 8,028 players2026-09-15 06:00 — 10,684 players2026-09-15 18:00 — 7,931 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 10,490 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 7,601 players2026-09-17 06:00 — 10,460 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 7,658 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 10,684 players2026-09-18 18:00 — 9,623 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 18,916 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 8,882 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 13,218 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 8,574 players2026-09-21 06:00 — 9,292 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 7,257 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 9,537 players2026-09-22 18:00 — 7,416 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 9,139 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 6,570 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 9,279 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 8,687 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 16,532 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 8,545 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 16,263 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 8,713 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 15,742 players2026-09-27 18:00 — 7,359 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 14,181 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 16,444 players2026-10-03 00:00 — 4,171 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 3,844 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 9,518 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
970k7.4kAug 2024Aug 2026Aug 2024 — avg 970,443 · peak 2,406,967Sep 2024 — avg 332,832 · peak 1,365,923Oct 2024 — avg 92,080 · peak 337,888Nov 2024 — avg 39,812 · peak 126,159Dec 2024 — avg 43,765 · peak 213,879Jan 2025 — avg 33,603 · peak 80,593Feb 2025 — avg 24,928 · peak 62,118Mar 2025 — avg 17,441 · peak 47,284Apr 2025 — avg 14,182 · peak 36,692May 2025 — avg 13,117 · peak 29,985Jun 2025 — avg 16,640 · peak 46,285Jul 2025 — avg 20,901 · peak 44,065Aug 2025 — avg 21,398 · peak 50,138Sep 2025 — avg 13,735 · peak 38,235Oct 2025 — avg 11,109 · peak 26,559Nov 2025 — avg 9,749 · peak 23,406Dec 2025 — avg 8,615 · peak 20,266Jan 2026 — avg 8,976 · peak 20,296Feb 2026 — avg 12,752 · peak 29,171Mar 2026 — avg 10,754 · peak 26,341Apr 2026 — avg 7,854 · peak 18,778May 2026 — avg 7,378 · peak 16,205Jun 2026 — avg 8,536 · peak 18,106Jul 2026 — avg 8,913 · peak 18,815Aug 2026 — avg 16,960 · peak 47,042
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#43#992026-09-142026-10-032026-09-14 — #862026-09-15 — #432026-09-16 — #432026-09-17 — #432026-09-18 — #902026-09-19 — #882026-09-20 — #882026-09-21 — #882026-09-22 — #992026-09-23 — #952026-09-24 — #952026-09-25 — #922026-09-26 — #862026-09-27 — #862026-09-28 — #942026-10-02 — #962026-10-03 — #96
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
1221222026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15: 65 new positive2026-09-15: 19 new negative2026-09-16: 107 new positive2026-09-16: 6 new negative2026-09-17: 59 new positive2026-09-17: 10 new negative2026-09-18: 77 new positive2026-09-18: 5 new negative2026-09-19: 60 new positive2026-09-19: 13 new negative2026-09-20: 83 new positive2026-09-20: 9 new negative2026-09-21: 91 new positive2026-09-21: 14 new negative2026-09-22: 60 new positive2026-09-22: 10 new negative2026-09-23: 122 new positive2026-09-23: 19 new negative2026-09-24: 58 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new negative2026-09-25: 66 new positive2026-09-25: 2 new negative2026-09-26: 67 new positive2026-09-26: 6 new negative2026-09-27: 91 new positive2026-09-27: 5 new negative2026-09-28: 64 new positive2026-09-28: 6 new negative2026-09-29: 55 new positive2026-09-29: 6 new negative2026-10-01: 68 new positive2026-10-02: 68 new positive2026-10-02: 6 new negative2026-10-03: 73 new positive2026-10-03: 7 new negative2026-10-04: 109 new positive2026-10-04: 4 new negative2026-10-05: 86 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 102 new positive2026-10-06: 14 new negative2026-10-07: 70 new positive2026-10-07: 2 new negative2026-10-08: 54 new positive2026-10-08: 5 new negative2026-10-09: 38 new positive2026-10-09: 3 new negative2026-10-10: 56 new positive2026-10-10: 5 new negative2026-10-11: 55 new positive2026-10-11: 8 new negative2026-10-12: 24 new positive2026-10-12: 9 new negative2026-10-14: 49 new positive2026-10-14: 12 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$37.992024-06-072026-08-172024-06-07 — best price $59.992024-08-15 — best price $59.992024-08-19 — best price $56.992024-08-29 — best price $58.192024-09-16 — best price $50.992024-09-20 — best price $49.792024-09-30 — best price $50.992024-10-31 — best price $59.992024-11-16 — best price $59.992024-12-03 — best price $50.992025-01-05 — best price $50.992025-02-01 — best price $59.992025-02-25 — best price $59.992025-03-03 — best price $52.792025-03-06 — best price $54.592025-04-01 — best price $52.792025-05-01 — best price $59.992025-06-02 — best price $59.992025-06-13 — best price $55.192025-06-19 — best price $47.992025-06-24 — best price $59.992025-07-10 — best price $59.992025-08-04 — best price $43.792026-02-09 — best price $44.992026-02-23 — best price $59.992026-08-11 — best price $41.992026-08-17 — best price $37.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

8.4k9732026-05-28 — 1,421 pageviews2026-06-01 — 1,239 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1,956 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1,476 pageviews2026-06-13 — 1,314 pageviews2026-06-17 — 1,537 pageviews2026-06-21 — 1,495 pageviews2026-06-25 — 1,339 pageviews2026-06-29 — 1,261 pageviews2026-07-03 — 1,214 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1,175 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1,107 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1,031 pageviews2026-07-19 — 1,153 pageviews2026-07-23 — 1,113 pageviews2026-07-27 — 1,199 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1,143 pageviews2026-08-04 — 1,503 pageviews2026-08-08 — 1,152 pageviews2026-08-12 — 1,798 pageviews2026-08-16 — 1,858 pageviews2026-08-20 — 8,407 pageviews2026-08-24 — 2,789 pageviews2026-08-28 — 1,782 pageviews2026-09-01 — 1,508 pageviews2026-09-05 — 1,438 pageviews2026-09-09 — 1,309 pageviews2026-09-13 — 1,409 pageviews2026-09-17 — 1,368 pageviews2026-09-21 — 1,255 pageviews2026-09-25 — 1,153 pageviews2026-09-29 — 1,132 pageviews2026-10-03 — 1,199 pageviews2026-10-07 — 973 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

8.7k362026-09-30 18:34 — 1,375 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 837 viewers2026-10-01 12:34 — 1,674 viewers2026-10-01 21:34 — 1,581 viewers2026-10-02 06:34 — 134 viewers2026-10-02 15:34 — 124 viewers2026-10-03 00:34 — 132 viewers2026-10-03 09:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-03 18:34 — 180 viewers2026-10-04 01:12 — 6,805 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 369 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 617 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 97 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 36 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 231 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 80 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 68 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 185 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 135 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 211 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 141 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 78 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 349 viewers2026-10-09 03:34 — 169 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 455 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 101 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 254 viewers2026-10-10 15:34 — 728 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 242 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 900 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 499 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 301 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 1,130 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 207 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 73 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 1,048 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 786 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 144 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 666 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
97.7%
earned "Home is Behind"
55.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsGamepad RecommendedPlayable without Timed InputDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportStereo SoundSurround Sound2 DLC

14 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-08-20, latest 2024-12-13 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)59,66621%36
Steam (Steam)46,12815%81
Xbox Series (Xbox)2,69413%81

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DRPGDramaActionCombatFantasyAdventureMythologyAction RPGSouls-like

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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