Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Clocks Up 114,000+ Concurrent Player Peak On Launch Day, But Reports Of Poor Performance Dominate Player Reviews

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has launched to 114,000+ concurrent players connected Steam, making it 1 of the biggest launches for a non-FromSoftware Soulslike crippled yet.

It's presently the eighth biggest crippled connected Steam by concurrent subordinate count, smashing done the 100,000 concurrent subordinate obstruction and clocking up 114,132 players successful the past 24 hours. By comparison, and according to information supplied by SteamDB, Lies of P's highest concurrent highest is simply a small implicit 30,000 players, Lords of the Fallen is 43,075 players, and The First Berserker: Khazan is conscionable shy of 33,000.

Concurrent players isn't the lone metric we should usage erstwhile measuring however palmy a crippled is, of course, but it's a bully starting point, adjacent though it doesn't relationship for players connected different platforms.

Despite the launch-day success, however, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers primitively released to 'overwhelming negative' idiosyncratic reviews connected Steam but has since upgraded to 'mostly negative' arsenic players study issues with "extremely atrocious performance," a "completely lifeless" main character, and "clunky" combat and gameplay. At the clip of writing, conscionable 21% of the 6,500+ reviews near connected Steam are positive.

"Wanted to springiness this crippled a bully chance. I was excited for this. I had seen the mostly antagonistic standing and checked the concerns and I tin accidental present that arsenic of this moment, they are correct," wrote 1 reviewer. "The crippled has immoderate monolithic show issues. I tried conscionable playing due to the fact that sometimes gameplay tin much than marque up for lacking successful different areas. I was unluckily not capable to spot overmuch of the combat. I did combat the opening tutorial boss, I did combat done a fewer camps of enemies, and, astatine 1 point, during the brag fight, I was enjoying it and having fun. I was incapable to acquisition much of that owed to the overshadowing show issues."

"UE5 games is [sic] a deed oregon miss erstwhile it comes to performance, and successful this lawsuit it's a miss unluckily (at slightest for my system)," added another. "This crippled needs a escaped demo for this nonstop reason."

It's not each bad, though. "I'm 1 of the fortunate ones: the crippled runs good connected my machine. No crashes, nary stutters, nary slideshow combat," said a happier reviewer. "And that makes 1 happening crystal wide — Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is being unfairly crucified by players with garbage PCs and zero optimization knowledge."

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is simply a Soulslike action-RPG acceptable successful the onshore of Shu during the acheronian and tumultuous precocious Ming Dynasty. You play arsenic a mysterious warrior afflicted by a horrific feather disease, who uncovers hidden secrets and battles supernatural enemies successful an past empire teetering connected the borderline of collapse.

"Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is yet different large Soulslike to adhd to the ever-increasing pile, featuring fantabulous combat, fantastic level design, an unthinkable accomplishment tree, and fearsome bosses," IGN wrote successful our Wuchang: Fallen Feathers review, which returned an 8/10 score. "Just ticker retired for immoderate steep trouble dips and spikes, and a reliance connected cheap-feeling 'gotcha!' ambushes."

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers released earlier today, July 24, 2025, for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. Microsoft has besides brought it to Game Pass time 1 for those subscribed to the Ultimate tier.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.