Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has launched to 114,000+ concurrent gamers on Steam, making it one of many largest launches for a non-FromSoftware Soulslike recreation but.
It is at the moment the eighth largest recreation on Steam by concurrent participant depend, smashing via the 100,000 concurrent participant barrier and clocking up 114,132 gamers within the final 24 hours. By comparability, and based on information provided by SteamDB, Lies of P‘s highest concurrent peak is slightly over 30,000 gamers, Lords of the Fallen is 43,075 gamers, and The First Berserker: Khazan is simply shy of 33,000.
Concurrent gamers is not the one metric we must always use when measuring how profitable a recreation is, after all, nevertheless it’s a great start line, despite the fact that it would not account for gamers on different platforms.
Regardless of the launch-day success, nonetheless, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers initially launched to ‘overwhelming damaging’ consumer evaluations on Steam however has since upgraded to ‘principally damaging’ as gamers report points with “extraordinarily terrible efficiency,” a “utterly lifeless” principal character, and “clunky” fight and gameplay. On the time of writing, simply 21% of the 6,500+ evaluations left on Steam are optimistic.
“Needed to offer this recreation a great probability. I used to be excited for this. I had seen the principally damaging score and checked the issues and I can say now that as of this second, they’re right,” wrote one reviewer. “The sport has some huge efficiency points. I attempted simply taking part in as a result of typically gameplay can greater than make up for missing in different areas. I used to be sadly not in a position to see a lot of the fight. I did struggle the opening tutorial boss, I did struggle via just a few camps of enemies, and, at one level, through the boss struggle, I used to be having fun with it and having enjoyable. I used to be unable to expertise extra of that because of the overshadowing efficiency points.”
“UE5 video games is [sic] a hit and miss in terms of efficiency, and on this case it is a miss sadly (at the very least for my system),” added one other. “This recreation wants a free demo for this precise motive.”
It is not all unhealthy, although. “I am one of many fortunate ones: the sport runs effective on my machine. No crashes, no stutters, no slideshow fight,” mentioned a happier reviewer. “And that makes one factor crystal clear — Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is being unfairly crucified by gamers with rubbish PCs and nil optimization data.”
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a Soulslike action-RPG set within the land of Shu through the darkish and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty. You play as a mysterious warrior bothered by a horrific feather illness, who uncovers hidden secrets and techniques and battles supernatural enemies in an historic empire teetering on the sting of collapse.
“Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is yet one more nice Soulslike so as to add to the ever-increasing pile, that includes glorious fight, fantastic stage design, an unbelievable talent tree, and fearsome bosses,” IGN wrote in our Wuchang: Fallen Feathers assessment, which returned an 8/10 rating. “Simply be careful for some steep issue dips and spikes, and a reliance on cheap-feeling ‘gotcha!’ ambushes.”
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers launched earlier immediately, July 24, 2025, for PS5, Xbox Collection, and PC through Steam and Epic Video games Retailer. Microsoft has additionally introduced it to Recreation Cross day one for these subscribed to the Final tier.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and marketing consultant with 15+ years expertise working with among the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.