At the Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, a representative from Game Science Studio revealed the production budget for Black Myth: Wukong. According to him, more than 300 million yuan ($42.4 million) was spent on creating the game.

Black Myth: Wukong has become the best-selling game of 2024 on Steam, according to the analytics service VG Insights. Until recently, this title was held by Palworld.

Daniel Wu, one of the co-founders of Hero Games, the largest external shareholder of the creators of Black Myth: Wukong, mentioned this number in a conversation with Bloomberg.

The analytical service VG Insights continues to monitor the performance of the Chinese hit Black Myth: Wukong. It has released the latest statistics for the Steam version of the game.

The creators of Black Myth: Wukong have signed an exclusive agreement with Sony’s gaming division, claims Forbes journalist Paul Tassi. According to him, this is why the game has yet to appear on Xbox consoles.

One of the most successful releases of the year, Black Myth: Wukong, attracted a large audience on Sony’s consoles. Gaming expert Simon Carless, citing data from the GameDiscoverCo service, reported that as of today, PlayStation 5 owners have purchased the action RPG 3 million times.

Many locations in Black Myth: Wukong replicate real-world places, primarily from Shanxi Province in northern China. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), while tourists typically pay little attention to this province, it has recently been experiencing a tourism boom.

Game Science studio has revealed the official sales figures for the highly anticipated Black Myth: Wukong. They announced that, within three days of its release, the game sold over 10 million copies.

The analytics service VG Insights shared data on Black Myth: Wukong. It estimated that to date, 8.4 million people have purchased the Steam version of the game, 80% of whom are residents of China.

Streams of Black Myth: Wukong on Chinese streaming platforms Huya, DouYu, and Bilibili were watched by 29 million people on the game’s release day, August 20, analysts from Niko Partners noted. No single-player story-driven game has ever drawn so many viewers in China on its debut day.

The Chinese news agency Caixin reported that the action RPG Black Myth: Wukong has sold over 4.5 million copies across all platforms. Of these, Steam users purchased 3 million copies.

Black Myth: Wukong continues to actively attract players on Steam. On the evening of August 20th, the Steam version of the game reached an online peak of 2.15 million players.

The best-selling game on Steam for the week of August 13 to August 20 was, as expected, Black Myth: Wukong. It topped the chart for both paid and free titles.

On the morning of August 20, the role-playing action game about the Monkey King, Black Myth: Wukong, was released on PC and consoles. The game immediately became a new phenomenon on Steam, attracting a huge number of people upon launch.

Steam users are actively pre-ordering Black Myth: Wukong ahead of the project’s release. During the week of July 30 to August 6, the action RPG about the Monkey King earned more money on the platform than any other premium game.

Black Myth: Wukong is currently the most wishlisted game on Steam. According to GameDiscoverCo, the game has amassed around 4 million wishlists on the Valve platform.

Recently, the creators of Black Myth: Wukong opened pre-orders for the game, and Steam users immediately began placing orders en masse. As a result, for the week of June 4 to June 11, the role-playing action game about the Monkey King climbed to the top of the sales chart, surpassing the portable PC Steam Deck and free-to-play hits like Counter-Strike 2 and Destiny 2.