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Where are the sales coming from? I would guess the majority are coming from within China?
I guess I'm just surprised that a Wukong game would be such a hit with westerners, especially in the very saturated soulslike genre. I also haven't seen anyone say anything about the game other than "it's a soulslike", so I'm wondering what's resonating
The primary driver of Wukong's sales success is its popularity in China, where developer Game Science is based. Games industry analyst firm Niko has an in-depth article by Daniel Ahmad breaking this down. 93% of Wukong's Steam reviews are in simplified Chinese, and Steam shattered its previous download bandwidth record (set during Cyberpunk's launch) by a whopping 28 terabytes per second on Wukong's August 20 launch—82% of that traffic originated in East Asia. Gameplay videos and previews of Wukong have also been dominating Chinese social networks like bilibili.
Thanks. I thought so
The only reason I haven't joined the Black Myth bandwagon is that I HATE RPG elements in videogames. How bad are those elements in this game?
we are finally returning to monke
The only game that comes close is Palworld’s 19 million players in two weeks
Somehow i'm not surprised that slavery and exploitation simulator with cutesy packaging being advertised by their devs as slavery and exploitation simulator get so popular
as industry analyst Daniel Ahmad pointed out on X, "The Everything App,"
This is more annoying than “X, formerly Twitter”
Liz on TrueAnon calls it that, but when she says it it sounds derogatory.
anyone here tried it yet? looking for something fun to play.
Is the game actually good though? Every "soulslike" I've tried has been super janky and not in a good way.
it's ok. So far the jank seems to be mostly that they don't have an input queue so you can easily cancel your own abilities and burn cooldowns. There are also a ton of invisible walls.
Graphics are great but the level design isn't very good compared to other soulslikes and for sure fromsoft games.
It's also not really like Sekiro where you parry things, instead you dodge stuff and really have no ability to block so it's even more dodge spammy than DS3 or Elden Ring. I don't really think this is the future direction of the genre. Given how fast From has been making bosses I think the direction is more like Lies of P where you rely on perfect blocking more than dodging. It's just too hard to keep up with all the attacks by dodging.
Bosses are mostly easy but there are some "difficult" ones that are mostly hard because they are spammy and you need RNGesus on your side to win.