10 Games To Play For People Who Love Hollow Knight: Silksong

Because the one-year anniversary of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s launch approaches, some gamers, having now crushed the sport way back, is perhaps left with a Hornet-shaped gap of their hearts. Whereas there’s a free DLC, Sea of Sorrow, due someday this 12 months, given the series’ history, it’s attainable we could not see it for a while but. Silksong is a singular metroidvania flavored with troublesome bosses and unforgiving areas that will encourage a severe case {of professional} envy within the builders at FromSoftware. Nonetheless, I’ve assembled right here 10 video games that I feel can scratch the identical itches Silksong does.

Hole Knight

Let’s get the “duh” alternative out of the way in which first. Silksong is a sequel, bettering on plenty of the fight and platforming programs its predecessor, Hollow Knight, established. Hornet, the protagonist of Silksong, was additionally initially a boss that confirmed up a number of occasions all through Hole Knight, and the 2 video games are linked by a shared narrative thread of extra, corruption, and eventual doom. Enjoying Hole Knight after Silksong kinda appears like that second in a shonen anime when the protagonist sheds their weighted armor. The sequel’s fight is a lot more durable and the platforming a lot extra unforgiving that Hole Knight appears like a quaint stroll within the park compared, however one undoubtedly value taking.

Blasphemous/Blasphemous 2

Of all of the video games on this listing that don’t have Hole Knight in its title, Blasphemous and its sequel are the video games most like Silksong. I’m speaking fight, exploration power-ups, and an expansive world suffused with sorrowful non secular imagery. Very like Silksong, Blasphemous calls for that you respect your enemies lest they simply kill you in your carelessness. The 2 video games share an air of gilded rot. In Silksong the world is crushed beneath the load of a despotic but holy determine worshiped in a crumbling temple. The identical is true of Blasphemous. Made by Spanish recreation studio The Sport Kitchen, the sport pulls its inspiration immediately from Catholic non secular festivals and painter Francisco Goya’s work A Procession of the Flaggellants. The result’s a recreation wherein you’re feeling misplaced, each bodily and spiritually, whereas ache drips fairly actually from each orifice. 

Dante’s Inferno

Whereas wholly completely different by way of gameplay, artwork fashion, and even graphical dimensions, Dante’s Inferno is what you play if you wish to proceed to discover Silksong’s vibe of rotten faith—but additionally wish to have far more goofy-ass enjoyable with it. Dante’s Inferno is EA’s straight-up God of Conflict clone, proper all the way down to the massive glowy buttons that hover over an enemy’s head when it’s time to carry out a ending transfer. It’s imagined to be an motion recreation riff on Dante Alighieri’s epic poem wherein a knight coming back from the Crusades ventures to hell to avoid wasting his beloved’s damned soul. However the entire recreation tries so hard to faucet into that hyper-violent, edgelord vibe of the late aughts that it wheels again round right into a Divine Comedy that I can not take critically, however nonetheless take pleasure in enjoying.

Blippo+

You’re not gonna discover a single factor Blippo+ has in frequent with Silksong. As an alternative of a metroidvania, it’s a—methods to put this—an immersive narrative expertise the place the primary gameplay mechanic is channel-surfing by late-night TV exhibits? As you flip between packages styled after The Pleasure of Portray, public entry information broadcasts, and Svengoolie, a narrative begins to emerge that additionally has nothing to do with any of the narratives current in Silksong. So why does this recreation make the listing? When Silksong lastly introduced its launch date, it primarily blew a gap in late 2025’s online game calendar. Tons of video games shifted their own release dates to get out of the sport’s means, very like everyone’s doing this year with GTA VI now. Blippo+, which had an earlier launch on the PlayDate, stored its Change and PC launch date of September twenty third, once we had been all smack-dab in the course of Silksong fever. Likelihood is you missed this recreation. Now that the Silksong haze has cleared, you possibly can test it out.

Animal Effectively

Animal Well, the puzzle platformer revealed by YouTuber videogamedunkey, mimics the environmental moodiness of Silksong. Very like Pharloom, the world of Animal Effectively is huge, various, quiet, and infrequently feels haunted. It is a puzzle platformer with no fight however there are a ton of secrets and techniques you, as a blobby lil man, can use your parkour expertise to unlock, revealing hidden areas to discover.

1000xResist

Whereas there’s an overabundance of so-called “dad games,” there are comparatively few examples of “mom games.” (Think about that.) Silksong, with its narrative themes and characters like Lace, Grand Mom Silk, Bell Beast, and extra, is what I’d name a mother recreation. So too is 1000xResist. In it, you play as a clone of your mom, who you kill within the recreation’s opening moments. Individuals who’ve dug into the lore of Silksong and completed the sport would possibly now perceive why I’ve chosen to check the 2. Your process is to filter by the recollections of mom, going again to a time earlier than she grew to become the progenitor answerable for a world crammed along with her clones. 1000xResist is an unimaginable narrative recreation that’s gathered quite a few nominations and gained a Peabody Award for its wonderful storytelling.

Tremendous Metroid

Super Metroid is Silksong’s great-great-great style grandmommy—for it, too, is a mother recreation. It’s the supply from which we derive the “Metroid” half in “metroidvania,” and a Silksong advice listing, certainly any listing of “issues it is best to play if you happen to loved this metroidvania-type recreation,” can be incomplete with out it. Tremendous Metroid is a quiet recreation. Neither Samus nor any of the sport’s bosses communicate, and the sport itself doesn’t communicate to you thru dialogue or hints both, forcing you, in your solitude, to determine shit out for your self. And the trial-and-error means wherein you do determine it out is wonderful. The second when a curious participant decides to set off an influence bomb in a room manufactured from glass, solely to have that tumbler shatter, revealing a brand new space: elegant. There’s a cause there’s an entire style named after it.

Elden Ring

Elden Ring and Silksong are kin not solely as a result of they’ve related soulsborne mechanics but additionally due to the sheer scale of their respective worlds. Simply if you suppose you’ve reached the sting of Pharloom, Silksong‘s second act opens up an entire new world that may very well be a recreation unto itself. That’s what it felt like exploring Elden Ring, too. There may be a lot depth and selection to every location that it feels decadent, like there’s no means the builders gave us this a lot. Each enemy is dripping with tragic symbolism—senseless zombies as soon as human however now consumed by their vocation, zealots who’ve turned piety into monstrousness, and a lot extra. Silksong additionally accommodates a number of the most egregious, infuriating, and patently unfair boss runbacks to ever exist in a recreation, ones that will put even the toughest encounters in Elden Ring to disgrace. At the very least that recreation was variety sufficient to place its respawn factors proper in entrance of the boss arenas.

Mina The Hollower

Cease me if you happen to’ve heard this one earlier than. An indie studio releases a major hit, then takes a very long time to develop a follow-up, is forced to delay the new game, however lastly releases it to massive critical success. Whereas not fairly following the precise story of Silksong’s growth, Mina the Hollower actually comes shut. The 2 video games share a vibe of “indie status,” doing a lot with far smaller budgets than their AAA cousins. And the place Silksong appears like a love letter to basic Nintendo video games like Metroid, Mina the Hollower is simply that for The Legend of Zelda, with a Sport Boy-inspired soundtrack that’s nothing however absolute bangers.

Celeste

Celeste has no fight, until you rely the fights you may have with your self on whether or not or to not proceed the harmful ascent up the titular Mount Celeste. In case you loved the puzzle platforming bits of Silksong together with Mount Fay, the Sands of Karak, and (shudders) Bilewater, however don’t have the endurance to battle monsters in-between, Celeste is your recreation. Celeste is simply as narratively lovely as Silksong, and includes a ton of non-compulsory challenges that improve the platforming problem.