Hollow Knight: Silksong kills it on its launch day on Steam with over half-a-million concurrent players

There was actually no likelihood Hollow Knight: Silksong wasn’t going to be a significant hit for Crew Cherry; the one query was how a lot of a success it was going to be. We not have to guess, as a result of the sport is out and everybody appears to be onboard.

Silksong has formally change into considered one of Steam’s greatest releases of 2025, and positively probably the most vital launches for any indie sport.

Rapidly after Silksong went stay 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, slightly below DOTA 2, and Counter-Strike 2 with over 317,000 in-game.

Its peak concurrent was a staggering 535,213 gamers (through SteamDB), which it managed to attain round 14 hours in the past. Silksong can 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 prime 100, little question 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 purchased) the sport in anticipation of the expansion-turned-sequel

And, similar 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, based mostly on almost 16,000 evaluations.

All that point spent in growth has additionally seemingly resulted in a cultured sport, as a result of there’s barely any point out of bugs or every other technical issues. Given this unimaginable momentum, it’s attainable the weekend will increase Silksong’s numbers even additional.