Black Fable: Wukong gross sales have reached a frankly insane milestone simply three days after the sport’s launch, developer and writer GameScience has introduced.
Per a submit on the sport’s official X (previously Twitter) account, Black Fable: Wukong has offered 10 million copies since launch. As a reminder, the sport was launched on August twentieth, which was simply three days in the past.
GameScience thanks gamers for his or her “help and love” for the sport, wishing everybody a “nice gaming weekend” within the submit. The developer additionally consists of some paintings of the participant character clutching his therapeutic gourd.
Not solely has the sport reached 10 million gross sales, nevertheless it’s additionally managed to realize a complete of three million concurrent gamers throughout each platforms on which it is at the moment accessible (PC and PlayStation 5, in case you are questioning).
It is honest to say the rise of Black Fable: Wukong has been meteoric, to say the least. Since being introduced again in 2020, hype for the sport has constructed and constructed, leading to Wukong being the most-wishlisted sport on Steam previous to its launch.
After its launch, the sport shortly started to climb the Steam charts, topping the 24-hour concurrent participant depend checklist inside only a handful of hours. Additional success appeared inevitable, and, certainly, so it has confirmed.
The rapidity of Wukong‘s rise can, it appears, largely be attributed to Chinese language gamers. As this (paywalled) article from GameDiscoverCo factors out, round 88% of the sport’s participant base is predicated in China, and 94% of Wukong‘s Steam opinions are in simplified Chinese language.
Provided that Black Fable: Wukong‘s developer is Chinese language, it maybe stands to motive that almost all of the sport’s gamers could be within the studio’s native nation. Nonetheless, it demonstrates the ability of China as a demographic on the subject of gaming.
Black Fable: Wukong is on the market proper now on PC and PlayStation 5, with an Xbox Sequence X|S model deliberate for later down the road. You’ll be able to learn my assessment right here if you wish to know why I believe it deserves its immense success.