{"id":941493,"date":"2025-12-30T14:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/black-myth-wukong-breaking-steam-concurrent-records"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:29:18","slug":"black-myth-wukong-is-currently-steams-most-played-game-as-it-continues-to-break-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/black-myth-wukong-is-currently-steams-most-played-game-as-it-continues-to-break-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Myth: Wukong is currently Steam&#8217;s most played game as it continues to break records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/black-myth-wukong-is-currently-steams-most-played-game-as-it-continues-to-break-records.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>As I write this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/black-myth-wukong\">Black Myth: Wukong<\/a>, the action adventure from China&#8217;s Game Science studio, is the most played game on Steam by player count. There are currently 1,400,932 players in-game (with a peak of 1,443,570), surpassing the likes of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG and all the usual games that occupy Steam&#8217;s top five.<\/p>\n<p>Wukong&#8217;s launch was already predicted to be strong, with the game being <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/charts\/topselling\/global\">Steam&#8217;s number one seller for several weeks<\/a>, but the concurrent player figures are quite staggering for a single-player, offline game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/black-myth-wukong-breaking-steam-concurrent-records\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/black-myth-wukong-breaking-steam-concurrent-records\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, Black Myth: Wukong, the action adventure from China&#8217;s Game Science studio, is the most played game on Steam by player count. There are currently 1,400,932 players in-game (with a peak of 1,443,570), surpassing the likes of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG and all the usual games that occupy Steam&#8217;s top five. Wukong&#8217;s launch was already predicted to be strong, with the game being Steam&#8217;s number one seller for several weeks, but the concurrent player figures are quite staggering for a single-player, offline game. 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