How Black Myth: Wukong rose to the top of Steam's wishlist

January's normally a quiet time of the year for video games, with few reveals, even fewer releases, and most of us content to hunker down and catch up with the winners from the previous year's awards season as studios muster themselves for the year ahead. But January 2021 was different, as a trailer for an unknown game from an unknown studio blazed across the internet like a swift swing from a combat staff. This game was Black Myth: Wukong, a new, dark take on the classic Chinese story Journey to the West.