Simplified Chinese becomes the most-used language on Steam

Black Myth Wukong launched last year to a huge influx of players, with the action-adventure title selling over 25 million copies in just 6 months. While a surprise to some, the Chinese-developed title received a ton of support from players in the region – with China now representing the greatest number of accounts on Steam.

As part of Valve’s recent Game Developers Conference talk (reported by GameDiscover), the company offered a new breakdown of Steam’s user stats. According to the platform holder, Simplified Chinese is now the most-used language on Steam, taking up 33.7% of all active accounts (with English landing at second place with 33.5%).

It’s worth noting that these figures come from Steam’s own internal reports as opposed to the semi-regular Steam hardware survey, meaning that this breakdown is likely to be much more representative of the current state of the platform.

Of course, home consoles are quite heavily controlled by the government in China, leaving PC as easily the most accessible gaming console (aside from phones).

With even more major Chinese-developed titles set to launch over the coming months and years, it will be interesting to see how this breakdown continues to evolve with time.

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