There was actually no probability Hollow Knight: Silksong wasn’t going to be a significant hit for Crew Cherry; the one query was how a lot of successful it was going to be. We not must guess, as a result of the sport is out and everybody appears to be onboard.
Silksong has formally turn out to be one among Steam’s largest releases of 2025, and positively probably the most vital launches for any indie sport.
Rapidly after Silksong went reside final night time on Steam, it began taking pictures up Steam’s Most Performed chart, overtaking heavy-hitters like Path of Exile 2 (which, by the way, simply had a significant replace that boosted its spot), and perennial multiplayer titles like PUBG.
Silksong had no bother touchdown into the highest 5 – and staying there. Even on the time of this writing, the sport occupies the quantity three spot, just under DOTA 2, and Counter-Strike 2 with over 317,000 in-game.
Its peak concurrent was a staggering 535,213 gamers (by way of SteamDB), which it managed to attain round 14 hours in the past. Silksong can also be, after all, Steam’s present number one top-seller, with the sport and soundtrack bundle at quantity two. It’s particularly spectacular that it solely spent one week within the high 100, little doubt the results of its gamescom revival and subsequent release date news.
The unique Hollow Knight even noticed a lift off the again of that reemergence, beating its own all-time Steam concurrent player record simply two days in the past, as many booted up (and acquired) the sport in anticipation of the expansion-turned-sequel
And, identical to how beloved that sport was, it appears Silksong is getting the identical degree of affection from gamers. Because it stands, Silksong has an Overwhelmingly Positive Steam user review rating, primarily based on almost 16,000 opinions.
All that point spent in improvement has additionally seemingly resulted in a refined sport, as a result of there’s barely any point out of bugs or another technical issues. Given this unimaginable momentum, it’s attainable the weekend will increase Silksong’s numbers even additional.
