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Black Myth: Wukong
Developer(s)Game Science
Publisher(s)Game Science
Producer(s)Feng Ji[1][2]
Designer(s)Jiang Baicun[1][2]
Programmer(s)Zhao Wenyong[1]
Artist(s)Yang Qi[1][2]
Composer(s)8082 Audio
EngineUnreal Engine 5
Platform(s)
Release
  • PlayStation 5, Windows
  • August 20, 2024
  • Xbox Series X/S
  • TBA
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Black Myth: Wukong[a] is a 2024 action role-playing game developed and published by Game Science. The game is inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West and follows an anthropomorphic monkey based on the character of Sun Wukong from the novel.

Black Myth: Wukong was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on August 20, 2024, with an Xbox Series X/S version planned for release at a later date. The game received generally favorable reviews from critics. It sold 10 million units as of August 23, making it one of the fastest-selling games of all time.

Gameplay

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Black Myth: Wukong is an action role-playing game,[3][4][5][6] with Soulslike elements.[4][7][8] It is a single-player game,[6][9][10] which is played from a third-person perspective.[5] It is inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West.[3][5][7][11]

The player controls a monkey protagonist referred to as the Destined One, who is based on Sun Wukong from the novel.[7][6] The protagonist's weapon is a staff, which is based on the Ruyi Jingu Bang from the novel.[7][12] The staff can extend and shrink in size during combat.[7] The three staff stances, which are the smash stance, the pillar stance, and the thrust stance, provide versatility in fights.[6][11][13] The combat mechanics involve resource management.[8] Focus can be accumulated by landing light attacks, executing well-timed dodges, and other means.[14] A focus point is gained when the meter for focus is filled up.[8] These points can be used to initiate a varied combo, chained to light attacks, or to charge a heavy attack on its own.[8] Stamina is depleted by sprinting, dodging, and attacking.[15]

Black Myth: Wukong (left) features characters from the Journey to the West (right, first edition), such as Rakshasi who wields the Plantain Fan.[16][17]

Spells have cooldowns and consume mana.[5][7] They are categorized in mysticism, alteration, strand, and transformations.[18] The protagonist uses transformations to shapeshift into a different creature or being.[3][7] An example is the transformation Red Tides, which takes the form of Guangzhi, a wolfman who wields a flaming glaive.[7] The transformations come with their own movesets and health.[3][7] They are available on cooldown, but do not cost mana.[8] They last until their might, which is depleted by attacking, or health runs out.[7]

Spirits provide a skill and passive effect if they are equipped.[19][20] Defeated yaoguai chiefs may leave behind their spirits, which can be acquired if they are absorbed into a gourd.[21] Spirit skills function as transformations to do an unique attack.[20] Qi is used to activate spirit skills.[5][20] An example of a spirit is the Wandering Wight, who does a headbutt attack.[19]

The game follows a mostly linear progression interspersed with expansive areas.[7] There are keeper's shrines, which act as checkpoints for the player, along the way.[22] Throughout the world, the protagonist encounters various yaoguai as enemies.[3][7] The game's difficulty cannot be changed by players, but it does not remain the same throughout a playthrough.[23]

Synopsis

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Premise and setting

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The Stork Tower is one of many landmarks featured in the game.[24][25]

Black Myth: Wukong is told over the span of six chapters[3][8][7][5] and features multiple endings.[5] In the story, the Destined One sets out on his journey to retrieve lost relics.[3][5] The game introduces cultural and natural landmarks derived from the real world into its setting. It features, for example, several locations from Shanxi Province, such as the Yungang Grottoes,[26] Little Western Paradise,[24] Nanchan Temple,[24] Iron Buddha Temple,[24] Guangsheng Temple,[24] and Stork Tower,[24] as well as locations from other provinces, such as the Kaiyuan Temple in Fujian Province.[27]

Plot

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After successfully escorting Tang Sanzang and recovering the Buddhist scriptures, Sun Wukong ascends to Buddhahood, but ultimately rejects life in the Celestial Court, instead choosing to live on his mountain in peace. However, the Celestial Court is angered that Sun Wukong would disobey them and sends an army led by Erlang Shen to force him to return to the Court. Sun Wukong duels Erlang, but is incapacitated by the circlet that binds him to the Court and is sealed in a stone; however, right before he is sealed, Sun Wukong manages to split his power into six Relics, each one corresponding to one of Wukong's six senses that are scattered and hidden all across China. Over the next few centuries, the Monkeys of Mount Huaguo, led by their elder the Old Monkey, would send out a number of young warriors to try and recover the Relics so they can revive and free Sun Wukong. One such Monkey (who becomes known as the Destined One) sets out on his quest to find the Relics.

  • First Relic: He first heads to the burnt down ruins of Guanyin Temple and recovers the first Relic, Sun Wukong's "Craving Eyes", by defeating Heifeng Guai, who apologizes and claims he was forced by the Court to oppose the Destined One.
  • Second Relic: The Destined One then heads to Yellow Wind Ridge where he defeats the Yellow Wind Sage and recovers the severed head of the Bodhisattva Lingji, which was used to store the second Relic, Wukong's "Fuming Ears". As an appreciative gesture, Lingji hands it over to the Destined One.
  • Third Relic: The Destined One continues his journey to the Little Western Paradise, where he frees Zhu Bajie from imprisonment and they both defeat Yellowbrow. Maitreya proceeds to thank them for defeating Yellowbrow, who stole his artifacts as well as the third Relic, the "Hubris Nose" which he then gives to the Destined One.
  • Fourth Relic: The Destined One and Bajie then arrive at the lair of the Spider Demons to find the fourth Relic, but Bajie is captured by the matriarch, the Violet Spider, who plans to marry and devour him for having "ruined" her centuries earlier (it is implied he fathered her youngest daughter after a tryst with her). The Destined One rescues Bajie and battles both the Violet Spider and the Hundred-Eyed Daoist Master, resulting in their deaths and the acquisition of the fourth Relic, the "Envious Tongue".
  • Fifth Relic: The Destined One and Bajie continue to the Flaming Mountains, where they find the Red Boy attempting to steal the fifth Relic from the Bull Demon King. The Destined One defeats Red Boy, who then commits suicide to avoid the humiliation of defeat. This enables the Destined One to take possession of the fifth Relic, Sun Wukong's "Grieved Body". At this point it is explained that, rather than willingly dividing his power into six Relics, Sun Wukong's body was butchered by Erlang, who shared his powerful remains between the yaoguai kings.
  • Sixth Relic: With five of the Relics now in possession, the Destined One and Bajie return to Mount Huaguo to find the sixth and final Relic. On the way, they find that Sun Wukong's old weapon, armour and cloud have been hidden in the region, thus they decide to recover them before the Court does. They reach the summit of Mount Huaguo and enter the stone, discovering that it contains Sun Wukong's lingering memories. There, the Old Monkey reveals the truth: what was to be the sixth Relic, Wukong's Mind, was lost when he died, as it is its nature. Thus, the original Sun Wukong was never to be revived and instead, the journey was meant for the Destined One to be forged into someone's worthy of Wukong's powers and mantle, becoming in a sense the sixth Relic, the "Freed Mind", himself and the new Sun Wukong.

Endings

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In order to achieve reincarnation, the Destined One is forced to battle the stone body of Sun Wukong, who has no mind and no soul. Upon the defeat of Wukong's stone body, there exists two endings:

  • If the Destined One did not fulfill any of the optional requirements for other endings, he fails to inherit Sun Wukong's legacy. He is forced to wear the same circlet that bound Sun Wukong to the Celestial Court and his body remains trapped inside the rock waiting for a new Destined One.
  • If the Destined One defeated Erlang Shen in an optional boss fight prior to the final battle, he successfully inherits Sun Wukong's memories and refuses to wear the circlet, preventing himself from being bound to the Celestial Court.

Development

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The development team scanned landmarks such as the Dazu Rock Carvings.[28]

Black Myth: Wukong is a game developed and published by Game Science.[12][29][6] The decision to make a single-player game was made on February 25, 2018.[30] The development team moved from Shenzhen to Hangzhou in December 2018.[30] They considered the cost for research and development to be high from the start of the project, so they did not have high expectations for profitability initially.[28] Nevertheless, they wanted to create a single-player game in their own style with a focus on traditional cultural themes.[28] They discussed themes such as xianxia and wuxia, but were most enthusiastic about the Journey to the West.[31] The team chose to use Unreal Engine 4 and familiarized themselves with it in the level for Mount Huaguo, which briefly appeared in the announcement trailer, before they put work on it down and started on the level for the Black Wind Mountain.[1][30]

The game features statues, including the statue of Kang-Jin Star (left), from the Yuhuang Temple in Jincheng, Shanxi Province.[27] The character Kang-Jin Star appears in her humanoid and dragon forms as an enemy boss.

Black Myth: Wukong was first announced with a trailer showcasing gameplay in its pre-alpha build on August 20, 2020.[32][33] The trailer demonstrated the game built on Unreal Engine 4.[32] It showed the protagonist exploring the environment and fighting various foes[32] in a location known as the Black Wind Mountain.[2] Within one day, the trailer had nearly two million views on YouTube and ten million views on Bilibili.[34] As Game Science's development team was small, the trailer was released to attract people to the studio to help build the game.[1][35] Therefore, the principle of the trailer was to show the level for the Black Wind Mountain in its current state, rather than make adjustment for the sake of the demonstration.[1] The team started with seven people and had thirty people around the time of the announcement.[2] In the past, they would recruit within their own personal network, but they realized that this was not enough for the project.[1] The popularity of the trailer far exceeded their expectations and had resulted in over 10 thousand applicants, but they maintained their plans to recruit between ten and fifteen people for the time being to not expand too quickly and lose their original vision.[1]

The artist Xiong Zhuying performed the Shanbei storytelling, using song and the instrument sanxian, for the character Headless Monk.[36]

The game is developed on Unreal Engine 5;[37][38] it was initially developed on its previous iteration, Unreal Engine 4.[23][35] The move to the newer version was revealed through a trailer on August 20, 2021.[39][40] Game Science explained that, in 2021, they had switched to Unreal Engine 5 as this would help with their pursuit for realism in the style.[23] In designing the environment, the development team conducted on-site studies of various locations.[28] They made scans of many buildings and statues to recreate them or use them as a basis in the design.[28] In 2022, the city of Hangzhou, where Game Science was located, gave the developers a grant for the game.[41] The sound, including the music and voices, was co-produced by 8082 Audio.[42][43] The game features an adaptation of the theme song "Yungong Xunyin", composed by Xu Jingqing, from the 1986 television series Journey to the West.[44] The game's end credits listed 140 people for the development team.[45]

Feng Ji revealed that they planned Black Myth: Wukong to be the first installment in a Black Myth series, which would explore different stories in Chinese mythology.[1][2] The game was internally referred to as B1, meaning Black Myth One, in reference to its status as the first work in the series.[1] They already have ideas for two other titles in the series, but have not publicly revealed them.[1]

Release

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Black Myth: Wukong was released for PlayStation 5 and PC (Windows) on August 20, 2024, at 10 AM (UTC+8).[46][47] An Xbox Series X/S version is planned, although the release date has not been announced.[38][46]

In January 2023, Game Science published a promotional short film celebrating the upcoming Year of the Rabbit which revealed that the game would be released in the summer of 2024.[48][49] During The Game Awards in December 2023, they released a trailer announcing the release date as August 20, 2024.[50][51] In June 2024, they disclosed that the Xbox Series X/S version of the game was delayed for optimization on the platform.[52][53] Reports suggested that this may be due to the technical limitations of Xbox Series S;[54][55][56] some sources suggested a memory leak on Xbox as the possible issue.[57][56] IGN reported that the delay was, according to an unamed source, because of an exclusivity deal with Sony and not technical issues.[58] However, Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb stated, after speaking to his sources, that Sony had no marketing deal in place to keep the game as an exclusive.[59][60][61]

Black Myth: Wukong received four editions: Digital Standard Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition, Deluxe Edition, and Collector's Edition.[46] The Digital Standard Edition contains the base game.[46] The Digital Deluxe Edition, additionally, provides in-game bonus content and a selected digital soundtrack.[46] The content consists of the weapon Bronzecloud Staff; the equipment Folk Opera Mask, Folk Opera Almsgiving Armor, Folk Opera Leather Bracers, and Folk Opera Buskins; and the curio Wind Chimes.[46] The two physical editions, the Deluxe Edition and the Collector's Edition, contain an activation code for the Digital Deluxe Edition on WeGame for JD.com purchases or Steam for overseas purchases.[62] The Deluxe Edition comes with the physical collectibles: Steel Case, The Constricting Headband, Chaos at the Peach Banquet (color print on silk scroll), Wind Chime (necklace), Thunderstone (ring), Gold Sun Crow (pin), Stamps and Postcard, and Warranty Certificate.[46] For the Collector's Edition, these are: Steel Case, Confront Destiny (protagonist figurine), Teaching of the Heart Sutra (color print on silk scroll), Wind Chime, Thunderstone, Gold Sun Crow, Stamps and Postcard, and Warranty Certificate.[46] A physical disc is not included in any edition.[46] Game Science stated that they are exploring options to offer physical discs, but that limitations in offline resources have made it difficult to offer physical discs simultaneously with the release.[62]

Black Myth: Wukong was the most-wishlisted game on Steam from May 2024.[29][63] Pre-orders for the game launched on June 8, 2024.[64] This came with the in-game content Trailblazer's Scarlet Gourd, which is also obtainable through in-game progression.[46] As reported in early August, the game ranked first on Steam's global top sellers chart.[65] When the game's preload went live shortly before release, the download bandwidth usage on Steam reached its highest-ever peak at 70 terabytes per second, superseding the previous record held by Cyberpunk 2077 in 2020.[66] Hero Games, a marketing partner, reportedly sent some content creators an email with an activation code for the game and guidelines to not discuss topics including politics, feminism, and other things in their coverage of the game at launch.[67]

Reception

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Black Myth: Wukong received "generally favorable" reviews on PC[68] and "mixed or average" reviews on PlayStation 5[69] from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.

Nikkei Asia reported that Black Myth: Wukong marked a noticeable shift toward premium games and international audiences in the Chinese video game industry.[97] During the pre-release, Soulframe Liang, the director of Phantom Blade Zero, commented that, if Black Myth: Wukong succeeds in the domestic and international market, people would be confident about other games in their industry and that he thought that it would indeed be a large success.[63] The popularity of the game managed to boost PlayStation 5 sales, reaching the top in video game hardware sales on Alibaba's Tmall for example, in the Chinese market.[98][99] The game led to a substantial increase of tourism to the real-world locations of scenes in the game.[100] The character Fourth Sister has become a popular subject for cosplay on Bilibili, Douyin, and other platforms.[101]

The game won "Best Visuals" and was nominated for "Most Epic" at Gamescom in 2023.[102]

Sales

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On the day of release, Black Myth: Wukong reached over 2.2 million concurrent players on Steam, which placed it as the second highest game of all time by this metric, surpassing other popular games such as Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077.[103][104] Within hours, it broke the record for the highest number of concurrent players for a single-player game on Steam.[104][105] Bloomberg reported that this ascent could help the game "seal its place in industry lore."[106] On August 22, the game reached its all-time peak of over 2.4 million concurrent players on Steam, only following PUBG: Battlegrounds.[107][108]

Game Science announced that Black Myth: Wukong had sold 10 million units, derived from data as of August 23, 2024, at 9 PM (UTC+8), and had reached 3 million concurrent players across all platforms.[107][109][110][111] The game is one of the fastest-selling of all time.[112] The physical editions were in high demand, with 700 thousand people signed up to purchase a supply of only 30 thousand units on the retailer JD.com for example.[113]

Notes

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  1. ^ simplified Chinese: 黑神话：悟空; traditional Chinese: 黑神話：悟空; pinyin: Hēishénhuà: Wùkōng

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