Black Myth: Wukong

Black Myth: Wukong is a single-player action RPG from Game SciencePublisherGame ScienceGame Science is the Chinese studio behind Black Myth: Wukong, the breakout single-player action RPG of 2024. As a single-player game it ships no anti-cheat; its only system-level protection is Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM, not a kernel anti-cheat.1 game in this family →, a Chinese studio in Shenzhen, released August 20, 2024 on Windows and PlayStation 5, with Xbox Series following in 2025. Built on Unreal Engine 5EngineUnreal Engine (Epic Games)Epic Games' Unreal Engine is the most widely used engine in big-budget PC games. Versions 4 and 5 power a substantial share of the modern competitive shooter market, including Valorant (UE4), Fortnite (UE5), PUBG (UE4), The Finals (UE5), and Delta Force (UE5).20 games in this family → and drawn from the classic novel Journey to the West, it was the biggest single-player launch of its year: it peaked at over 2.4 million concurrent players on Steam, the highest count ever for a single-player game there and second all-time behind only PUBG, and sold more than 10 million copies within days. It won Best Action Game at The Game Awards 2024.

Black Myth: Wukong asks far less of your system than the online games in this guide: there is no anti-cheat driver, because there is no multiplayer to protect. What it has is Denuvo Anti-Tamper, DRM that typically performs a license check rather than watching your machine while you play; the trade-off people debate with Denuvo is potential performance overhead, not kernel-driver access. The main process is b1-Win64-Shipping.exe. If the word Denuvo gives you pause, the thing to know is that this is the anti-tamper DRM version, not a kernel anti-cheat.

Black Myth: Wukong is single-player, with no multiplayer mode, so it ships no anti-cheat at all: no Easy Anti-Cheat, no BattlEye, no kernel anti-cheat driver. Its only system-level ask is Denuvo Anti-Tamper, and the distinction matters. Denuvo Anti-Tamper is digital rights management, anti-piracy protection that wraps the game's executable to resist cracking and checks the license; it is not a kernel anti-cheat scanning your machine for cheat software, and it is not Denuvo's separate Anti-Cheat product. The main Windows process is b1-Win64-Shipping.exe, the Unreal Engine shipping binary. As trust asks go, this is near the bottom of the scale in this guide: the biggest game of its year asks almost nothing of your kernel.

Game Science was a newer studio and Black Myth was its breakout, so the long publisher record is short, but two things on the public record are worth knowing. The first is the streamer-guidelines episode: the game's co-publisher, Hero Games, sent some content creators an email, verified as legitimate by multiple outlets, that paired a review key with guidelines asking them to avoid certain topics in their coverage, reportedly including politics, what it called feminist propaganda, and terms such as COVID-19. Some creators declined to cover the game over it. We note this factually without taking a side. The second is the recurring Denuvo performance debate, where Denuvo's owner states there is no perceptible effect and community testing has been mixed, with no definitive controlled test specific to this game. Sources include GameSpot, PC Gamer, VGC, and Dexerto.