The adventure inspired by China's Journey to the West novel shot up the charts of Valve's PC gaming storefront overnight and has become the top-selling and most-played game within its first 12 hours out in the wild.
Black Myth leap-frogged records set by other single-player games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring, which occupy the seventh and eight spots on Steam's all-time peak concurrent chart.
That overwhelming day-one audience appears to be mostly overseas so far, with Simon Carless of the Game Discover newsletter estimating almost 90 percent of Black Myth's current players on Steam are from China.
It's a testament what the region can do to shatter numbers when properly mobilized both regionally and internationally in one big launch.
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