With Silksong Imminent, More People Are Playing Hollow Knight on PC Than Ever Before

Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming retired successful little than 2 weeks, and you cognize what that means, right? Yup, that means it's clip to play (or replay) the archetypal Hollow Knight! Which is precisely what a batch of folks are doing.

Hollow Knight, released connected PC successful 2017, has reached an all-time precocious concurrent subordinate number contiguous connected Steam (per SteamDB), 8 years aft release, astir surely owed to the Silksong news. At the clip this portion is being written, it's sitting astatine 23,840 concurrent players, an all-time peak.

Prior to this, concurrent subordinate counts person been sitting astir astir 10,000 for months connected end, usually a spot below. But aft the Silksong quality yesterday, they began climbing, reaching 16k yesterday day and dipping somewhat overnight earlier shooting up again contiguous successful a playercount that seems poised to ascent adjacent higher passim the time and into the weekend. The erstwhile all-time precocious was implicit 20k players successful 2022.

This is apt owed to a surge of players moving to replay Hollow Knight, oregon play it for the archetypal time, up of the merchandise of Silksong connected September 4. There has been nary shortage of involvement successful Team Cherry's standout Metroidvania successful the years since its launch, arsenic we present cognize it's sold 15 cardinal copies crossed each platforms.

The sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, looks to beryllium adjacent bigger than the basal crippled of Hollow Knight if the trailer shown yesterday is immoderate indication, and it sounds similar there's adjacent much Silksong to travel aft launch. We got to play a small spot of Silksong astatine gamescom this past week, with our previewer saying it "shows small motion of disappointing."

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