With 30 million people signed up already, imminent open-world RPG Wuthering Waves is another Chinese action darling to watch
May. 21, 2024And it’s out tomorrow
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Ahead of launch tomorrow, action-RPG Wuthering Waves has amassed a staggering 30 million pre-registrations around the world across mobile and PC platforms.
Wuthering Waves, if you don’t already know about it, is another sublime-looking open-world action RPG from a Chinese developer, and it’s right around the corner with a May 22 launch in sight. Ahead of launch last week, developer Kuro Game announced in the tweet below that a grand total of 30 million players around the world had pre-registered for Wuthering Waves' launch.
That’s a hell of a lot of players by just about anyone’s metric. If you cast your mind back a fair few years to the launch of Genshin Impact, which similarly arrived on mobile and PC platforms simultaneously, HoYoverse’s game totaled just over10 million pre-registrationsbefore launch, a milestone that Wuthering Waves has absolutely obliterated.
If you’re one of the 30 million hopeful players out there, the good news is that Wuthering Waves is available to download right now ahead of its launch tomorrow. The pre-download instructions are mercifully simple - just create an account with developer Kuro Game, download the client, and install Wuthering Waves, which is coming in at just over 18GB on PC.
Wuthering Waves is the latest in a pretty long line of stellar-looking Chinese free-to-play games. We obviously have Genshin Impact from developer HoYoverse, but keep in mind that the impressiveZenless Zone Zerois still off on the far horizon, set to launch at some unknown point in the future on mobile and PC, before coming toPS5at some point later on.
If you didn’t already know, Wuthering Waves held a closed beta session last year, and following this, Kuro Game revealed90% of the game had been rewritten. This was apparently based off player feedback from the initial session, so here’s hoping the game makes a better impression at launch tomorrow.
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