Fastest-selling videogame based on a classic novel

Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science, 2024), an action role-playing game based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, was released on 20 August 2024 and sold 20 million copies in just its first month.

On its first day of release, Black Myth: Wukong logged more than 2.2 million concurrent players on Steam, making it the most successful single-player game on Steam based on this metric - having earlier, thanks to a viral trailer, been the most-wished-for game on the platform. According to Game Science, it sold 10 million units in its first week and 18 million units by the end of the second. The game was particularly successful in its native China; it was noted by the gaming industry analyst firm Niko that 93% of Wukong's Steam reviews were in simplified Chinese, and that 82% of the launch-day traffic originated in East Asia.