Black Myth: Wukong has set the second-highest peak player record in Steam’s history, a spectacular launch for the Chinese action RPG that put it at the top of the global top sellers list. It’s also a great game: we called it “a mythical action RPG with remarkably bizarre characters and daring boss battles” in our 87% review. That should be the only story for Black Myth: Wukong today, but it’s not—what would otherwise be a celebratory launch has been dogged by controversy that studio GameScience seems unwilling to address, including in a recent interview with PC Gamer.

Streamer guidelines for Black Myth leaked before release, revealing a list of “don’ts” that included “feminist propaganda, fetishization, and other content that instigates negative discourse” as well as “conten…