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Action RPG Black Myth: Wukong, developed and published by Game Science, released in 2024. It has garnered 872,820 Steam reviews with a 97% positive rating. The game draws from mythology and features Souls-like combat.
Overview
Black Myth: Wukong is a 2024 Action game developed by Game Science and published by Game Science. On Steam it has gathered 873,186 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $60. The pairing of developer Game Science with publisher Game Science is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 39.3 million to 91.7 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Black Myth: Wukong can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
873,186
Positive
97%
Steam appid
2358720
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.039.3M to 91.7M
units (median: 65.5M)
≈ $1346.4M to $3141.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$60 | +15 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Black Myth: Wukong at roughly 39.3 million to 91.7 million copies, with a median around 65.5 million, derived from its 873,186 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2244.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $31.20Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $31.20 to $59.99, averaging $57.47 across 1 discount window, with a historical low of $31.20 on 2026-05-11.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Black Myth: Wukong sold?
- indielist estimates Black Myth: Wukong has sold between 39,293,370 and 91,684,530 units (median 65,488,950), derived from its 873,186 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Black Myth: Wukong?
- Black Myth: Wukong was developed by Game Science and published by Game Science.
- When was Black Myth: Wukong released?
- Black Myth: Wukong was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Black Myth: Wukong have on Steam?
- Black Myth: Wukong has 873,186 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Black Myth: Wukong within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Game Science's other releases and Game Science's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Black Myth: Wukong sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Black Myth: Wukong page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.