Black Myth: Wukong can be considered the game with the highest popularity on Steam in 2024.
This is understandable as it has broken countless records on Steam, even surpassing many blockbusters with more than 2 million plays at the same time. But for Steam Deck, Game Science's game cannot maintain its appeal for too long.
The proof is that as October was about to end, according to Valve's list of most played games on handheld systems, Black Myth: Wukong was not even in the top 10.
Looking at this ranking, perhaps many people will be surprised that the name at the top of the table is Baldur's Gate 3 – Game of the Year of 2023. Although it has created quite a big fever in the industry. last year, but until now, Baldur's Gate 3 still maintains a large number of popular gamers and the game itself has a much higher replay value than Black Myth: Wukong. Up to now, there are still countless mysteries about Baldur's Gate 3 that gamers have not been able to discover. However, there is an important reason why Black Myth: Wukong is not so successful on Steam Deck: because this game is not configured to run well on this platform. Similar cases also happened with Silent Hill 2 or Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2.
Another big surprise is that Metaphor: ReFantazio came in third place. This achievement is very surprising when remembering that the game was only released on October 11 but has quickly created an impressive effect. Diablo 4 with a new quality update called Vessel of Hatred has also risen to 4th place.
This November, Steam Deck gamers will probably look forward to the appearance of Red Dead Redemption as well as Valve being able to soon fix the access error for GTA Online. Of course, that is also optimizing the configuration for Black Myth: Wukong, Silent Hill 2 or Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2.
