Black Myth: Wukong breaks record with $53 million in presales, achieves 1.3 million concurrent players on Steam

The demo of Black Myth: Wukong lasted for two and a half hours. Credit: Game Science

Chinese developer Game Science launched the AAA game Black Myth: Wukong at 10 a.m. (Beijing time) today on PS5, Steam, Epic, and WEGAME platforms. Following its release, the action role-playing game triggered an unprecedented download frenzy on Steam, with the platform’s data reporting a bandwidth peak of 70 Tbps (terabits per second) shortly after pre-download began. As of the time of writing, the number of concurrent online players on Steam has surpassed 1.3 million. According to the 2024 mid-year Chinese game sales report, Black Myth: Wukong achieved sales of RMB 390 million ($53 million) and 1.2 million copies in just one month of pre-sales, setting a new record for pre-sales in the territory of Chinese-developed PC-end games. [TechNode reporting]