Regardless of how many years you’ve been playing video games, chances are that you’ve experienced the explosion in popularity of a new game. Has it happened where that game all but disappears entirely less than a year later? In most cases, this is due to the final product not matching what players hoped for. It seems that Black Myth: Wukong by Game Science is shattering the belief that attractive games with many years of development are terrible on launch.
Think about games like New World, a massively multiplayer online game, or Evolve, a first-person asymmetrical shooter. Their marketing led players like me to believe we were in for one of the greatest rides in gaming. Hell, even Anthem was convincing players that Bioware was making the next Destiny clone, only for players to be disappointed; what- hours later? This led to purchasing these titles on day one, only to discover that I’d completely wasted my money. Remember, folks, this was in an era before you could return games on Steam.
Will Black Myth: Wukong Stay Popular on Steam Charts?
Nowadays, it’s more common for these kinds of games to be immediately flagged by the community. Most times, they’re shut down for various reasons instead of being allowed to continue longer than they should. Gamers have officially learned the phrase, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me.” It doesn’t matter what the defect or long-term issue is. A player will get their money back if they think a game is trash.
I’ve been playing Black Myth: Wukong since it was officially released, and I’m having difficulty seeing this game flop within a year. In fact, I’m having difficulty getting past the idea that I’m watching a new theme in gaming become as popular as dark fantasy has. Now, that doesn’t mean that I see the game becoming popular in all of the casual ways that games like Fortnite are. I want to compare it to the Dark Souls franchise or even Outward. However, with less of the deviously difficult gameplay. While Wukong absolutely has a gameplay style that needs to be mastered, it’s far more approachable than the latter two.
Sometimes, it’s very telling when a game has difficulty figuring out how to get to the top of the Steam charts, like how Wukong did. However, there are some games that you can just tell are going to be instant hits. I don’t expect Wukong to continue to be on the same concurrent player base as titles like Counter-Strike 2 or DOTA, but I expect it to rise repeatedly whenever updates or DLC are added. There’s a clear reason why there are over 100,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on their Steam page. Let’s just hope that the game’s popularity doesn’t get left behind and ignored in the coming months.
Black Myth: Wukong is available to play now on PC.
