2024 was full of great games, but one of the most striking successes of the year was Black Myth: Wukong. Developed by Chinese studio GameScience, Wukong built on the familiar template of Journey to the West to deliver a stylized action experience that married fluid fights and streamlined systems with the punishing difficulty of Soulslike games. China’s game market has been continually growing, and Wukong represented a major leap compared to the mobile games that represent a lot of the nation’s biggest global output.
