Hollow Knight: Silksong Is Out Now — but It's So Popular It's Crashing Storefronts Including Steam

Hollow Knight: Silksong is retired now, but the immense unreserved to bargain and download the crippled has caused immoderate storefronts to crash.

Steam, for example, is struggling to header with the influx of customers, with Silksong’s store leafage presently resulting successful an mistake page. All this, remember, for a $20 indie game.

Silksong has crashed Steam.

IGN unit study occupation trying to bargain Silksong from the Nintendo eShop, the PlayStation Store, and Xbox. Silksong is simply a day-one Game Pass title, but subscribers are reporting occupation downloading it from the Xbox App and connected Xbox consoles.

Even the Nintendo eShop is having problems.

Silksong is 1 of the astir anticipated games of 2025. Over six years aft its archetypal announcement and arsenic the astir wishlisted crippled connected Steam, Silksong yet launched today, September 4, crossed PC, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and S priced $19.99 and weighing successful astatine 7.62GB.

Despite the motorboat struggles, astatine the clip of this article's work Silksong already had implicit 100,000 concurrent players connected Valve's platform, truthful intelligibly immoderate fans were capable to get into the game. To enactment that fig into perspective, Hollow Knight's highest concurrent subordinate number is 72,916, truthful the sequel has already smashed done 1 milestone contempt Steam's issues.

Little was known astir Silksong up of launch, truthful players are lone present discovering its secrets. One of the archetypal revelations is the achievements database (Silksong has 52 Achievements and 53 Trophies to unlock and discover).

While you hold for storefronts to recover, beryllium definite to cheque retired IGN's Silksong coverage, which includes the communicative of the superfan down the YouTube Channel Daily Silksong News, who tin yet remainder aft an unthinkable 1,693 days of videos.

And if you're playing (or replaying) Hollow Knight earlier Silksong, instrumentality a look astatine IGN's recently refreshed Hollow Knight walkthrough and elaborate Hollow Knight interactive representation to marque definite you don't miss immoderate collectible locations.

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