Black Myth: Wukong director reportedly expresses disappointment over Game Awards snub

Black Myth: Wukong director Feng Ji has released a lengthy statement thanking fans for their support following The game Awards and expressing his disappointment that GameScience’s action title didn’t take the top game of the Year award.

The hugely popular single-player title won the Action game and community-voted Player’s Voice awards at The game Awards, but missed out on game of the Year, which was won by Sony’s Astro Bot.

In a post on Chinese social media site Weibo, which has been machine translated, Feng Ji allegedly claims that he even wrote his acceptance speech for The game Awards two years ago.

The post reportedly says, “In the end, it won Best Action and Player Voice, especially Player Voice, which is gratifying. But I must admit that there are disappointments and regrets… The nominated games this year are all excellent, but I don’t really understand the selection criteria for this year’s game of the Year. I came here for nothing!

“From yesterday until now, I have also seen great dissatisfaction, reluctance and unhappiness in the comments of many players, most of them expressed in a humorous and deconstructive way, which is hilarious,” the translation continues.

“I can fully understand this unwillingness to sympathize with this unhappiness because I know that behind these emotions there is no pain or malice, but self-esteem and self-confidence.”

It is unclear whether the tone of the post is sarcastic or joking, as several phrases in the post have a humorous tone.

However, after The game Awards, former Sony Santa Monica writer Alanah Pearce claimed that an anonymous game Science developer was seen crying when Astro Bot was announced as the game of the Year winner.

VGC has contacted GameScience for comment.

Black Myth: Wukong has been a huge commercial success since its release earlier this year, selling over 20 million copies on PC and PS5.

Within days of its release, it attracted more than 1.44 million concurrent players on Steam, according to tracker Steam Charts, meaning it’s already the fourth-largest game on the platform in terms of concurrent players.

According to China-based journalist and game industry consultant Daniel Camilo, game Science wants to release an expansion for the game to coincide with the Chinese New Year, which begins on January 29, 2025.

VGC’s Final Impressions of Black Myth: Wukong called the game “a beautiful, if slightly boring, boss race”, and said: “It’s absolutely gorgeous and technically powerful, but its gameplay and narrative leave something to be desired.”