Black Myth: Wukong Launches August 20 for Xbox Series X|S - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 June 2025 / 6,866 Views
Developer Game Science announced the action RPG, Black Myth: Wukong, will launch for the Xbox Series X|S on August 20. Pre-orders will open on June 18.
The game first released for the PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store in August 2024.
Read details on the game below:
Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. The story is based on Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.
Explore a Land of Vast Wonders
A world unseen, where new sights rise with every stride. Enter a fascinating realm filled with the wonders and discoveries of ancient Chinese mythology! As the Destined One, you shall venture through breathtaking landscapes in the classic tale of Journey to the West, creating a new epic of uncharted adventures.
Confront Mighty Foes, Old and New
Heroic Monkey, might and fame, adversaries rise, to test his name. One of the major highlights of Journey to the West is its diverse cast of adversaries, each with unique strengths. As the Destined One, you shall encounter powerful foes and worthy rivals throughout your journey. Fearlessly engage them in epic battles that know no surrender.
Temper Your Mastery of Varied Spells
Spells unbound, knowledge’s flight, infinite abilities take their height. Spells, transformations, and magic vessels in all manifestations, complementary yet adversarial, have long been iconic combat elements in Chinese mythology. As the Destined One, aside from mastering various staff techniques, you can also freely combine different spells, abilities, weapons, and equipment to find the winning formula that best suits your combat style.
Discover Heartfelt Tales Behind Every Facade
Within beings of every kind lies the story of a life. Beneath the ferocity and craftiness of your foes lies an engaging tapestry of their origins, personalities, and motivations waiting to be revealed. As the Destined One, you will uncover the stories behind a variety of characters, delving beyond your battles with them, to taste the love and hate, greed and fury they once had and still carry with them.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
More Articles
A year……to the day????? Lol
Thats just how long it took to figure out the Series S issues. It was just a coincidence that it took exactly a year and should no way be interpreted as a moneyhat.
How often do timed exclusives actually come out the day they end? Like less than 5%? Can you even name one actually?
You cannot really believe that? :) This is clearly the timed exclusive window ending...
Actually if you look at the history of the studio, they do all their big releases on the same day. 8/20. The consipricy theories are getting out of hand.
People don’t have enough drama in their lives so they have to create it.
The game was also announced on August 20th 2020. I read this date is considered Sun Wukong’s birthday.
Nope, surely not. First of all, chinese lunar calendar dates don't fall on the same day each year in western calendar.
Then, the Birthday of Sun Wukong is in the first lunar month, which is more in the beginning of the year. More fitting would be the Monkey King festival, which is in the eight lunar month in the autumn. Just, this doesn't pan out either, it falls on October 7th this year.
So no, I don't see the announcement fitting any date relevant to the myth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_of_the_Monkey_God
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_King_Festival
You can take a birth date from a lunar month and put it into the Gregorian calendar very easily. Chinese people have birthdays in the Gregorian calendar, my wife’s birthday is the 11th of September. That’s the literal day she was born.
Neither of those festivals are actually from mainline China, and both have conflicting dates(spoiler: Sun Wukong is not a real person). I have no idea where the 20th of august date comes from or what the significance is, but it could be anything. We celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas for example, which is absolutely not the birthday of Jesus and just the date that corresponded to an existing holiday.
And you were just telling me in the SH:F article that platforms aren't allowed to talk about release date until that "exclusive" time has passed. I guess with MS allowing pre-orders 2 months in advance also proves there was no paid exclusivity for this one.
All the evidence was pointing to there being no timed exclusivity and I still believe that to be the case. There just seems to be some special connection with the date.
Its not a conspiracy when its literally the most likely scenario...
8/20/20 - Announcement trailer
8/20/21 - Trailer #2
8/20/22 - Trailer #3
8/20/23 - First hands on Previews
8/20/24 - PS5/PC releases
8/20/25- Xbox release
8/20 is the birthday of the Monkey King God, celebrated in China
Sony keeps doing Sony things even with their competition releasing their games on PS.
I love my PS5...
But alot of yall Sony fans are in denial about their business practices
Yep, they've been caught moneyhatting timed exclusivity deals on games already announced for Xbox too many times now. This is the most egregious example yet, they moneyhatted it like 3 months before an announced release date for the Xbox version, and then suddenly the developer was claiming Series S was the issue, clearly to cover for Sony's last minute hat. A. it doesn't take a year to fix Series S issues when it runs on PC's with lower specs than Series S (and quite well I might add), and B. releasing like almost exactly a year after PS5 is way too sus, not when 1 year is by far the most common timed exclusivity deal length.
You need a tissue? did you get your big pitch fork out for MS money hatting practices when they were buying GTA 4 DLC / Mass effect / Stalker 2 / The medium? How about the recent War hammer remaster mysteriously not releasing on PS5? you gonna put on the tin foil hat and rip MS apart with money hatting conspiracy theories too?
GTA 4 DLC and Mass Effect 1 were 4 Xbox heads ago, let it go already (also Mass Effect is confirmed to have not been a timed hat, the developers chose to make it an Xbox 360 exclusive since they were familiar with Xbox's hardware design and development tools from their earlier work on KOTOR and Jade Empire on the OG Xbox). As for STALKER 2, GSC went with Xbox since they were using Unreal 5 and Xbox has Unreal Engine masters at The Coalition and Ninja Theory who could assist them (it was also only a 3 month deal as confirmed in leaked paperwork, the longer than 3 month delay is likely due to the ongoing War with Russia which slowed down development for the entire game. Likewise, Bloober confirmed The Medium was Xbox timed console exclusive for 9 months because Xbox provided them with an Xbox Series development kit sooner than Playstation did a PS5 dev kit. Not familiar with the Warhammer situation as I don't follow the series, but I'm sure there is some innocuous reason, Xbox doesn't care much about exclusives these days, even their own first party games release on PS5 now alot of the time.
Oh you mean like how MS money hatted stalker 2 and war hammer remaster to not be on ps5? I don't see this much crying on those news from the xboys in this site huh? oh look I found your comment with no signs of calling MS evil for money hatting - https://www.vgchartz.com/article/464772/warhammer-40000-space-marine-ndash-master-crafted-edition-announced-for-xbox-series-xs-pc-and-game-pass/
Hypocrisy in full display
$ony money
I would stay far away from a series s version. I can only imagine how poor the image quality is going to be running that unreal engine 5. All that motion blur/smear that has ruined alot of AAA games on series s.
I don't think you played a lot (or any for that matter) of games on the Series S then.... While they are definitely not the best version (and nobody will argue that); they are pretty well done usually and very playable .
Hellblade 2, stalker, Indiana jones, to name a few, with poor visual issues
Like I said, you clearly did not play any game on the Series S and just blabering about what you see on YouTube about it. For the cost of the console, the "visual" are prefectly fine and expected to be like that, nothing wrong with it.
"Poor visual" = "Not at Xbox Series X level" in your mind...
I've had my series s longer than you. To make certain games work on the series s, they end up with glaring problems that make Xbox one titles look better in comparison. There is nothing worse than severe motion blur mixed in with ranged texture issues that make in impossible to see what exactly is Infront of you in motion. Which is why i saw there are Xbox one games/ even 360 with better cleaner images
Again, you are mixing up poor visual with expected visuals.
The Series S is perfectly capable to run AAA games at low settings (same with a lot of PC, etc.).
Again, doubting, in any case, you ever owned a Series S to start with. And if you expected the games to run like the Series X (which seems to be the case); then you just did not understand what the Series S is for, in the first place...
"Impossible to sese what is in front..." I mean lol Sure bud...
You clearly haven't played any . Yes the series s is capable of great visuals, if optimised well. What's happening is you have games using engines meant for greater hardware, and then to make it work,they scale back in other areas, but with mixed results. And since taa is the default anti aliasing used these days, coupled with other visual scalebacks, and some other issues that could be further optimised with time, you left with bad textures, excessive motion blur, draw distance issues affecting visibility, and it leaves me wishing i had Xbox 360 visuals instead.
I'd rather old gen textures where i can at least make out the details and what I'm looking at, instead of ultra realism with heavy motion blured textures and i can't make out the textures clearly.
I don't blame the series s, I blame the Devs. But as it stands
, my series s is now only used as a movie player
If the Series S version doesn't look good, I hope it isn't the devs that get blamed for it.
this means ms is getting ready to announced halo for ps5.. expect all these other timed exclusives like sh2, ff 16 remake and rebirth and some others maybe too to be announced around ps5 ports.. they talked about spacing the m out to keep xbox players happy.
How does "this" means that? I mean... You really need to explain how you connect those 2 dots lol
Exactly, it's just another move in the MS trojan horse strategy!
