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Hollow Knight: Silksong won Steam's Game of the Year at the 2025 Steam Awards, reflecting its widespread popularity and anticipation since its September release, along with other awards like Best Game You Suck At and Best Game on Steam Deck for Hades II.
Team Cherry announced the Sea of Sorrow expansion for Hollow Knight: Silksong, featuring new areas, bosses, and tools, set for 2026, along with a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of the original Hollow Knight that includes all platform updates. The original game is also receiving updates and bug fixes, with some available on PC now. The game has sold over 7 million copies, and both titles have received high praise from IGN.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is receiving a free expansion called Sea of Sorrow in 2026, featuring new areas, bosses, and tools, while the original game is also being updated with enhanced features and a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. The updates aim to improve gameplay and graphics across platforms.
Team Cherry released the second major update for Hollow Knight: Silksong, introducing a new dithering graphics toggle, clarifying achievement requirements, and fixing numerous bugs to improve gameplay. The patch is currently available on Steam's beta branch, with a full release upcoming.
Early reviews for Hollow Knight: Silksong are highly positive, with an OpenCritic score of 98 based on 10 reviews, praising its design and gameplay, and suggesting it could be a strong contender for Game of the Year in 2025.
The article discusses the challenging gameplay of Silksong, comparing it to other difficult games like Hollow Knight and Souls-like titles, and debates whether its punishing difficulty enhances or detracts from the fun and elegance of movement and game design.
Silksong is breaking Steam player count records, surpassing 562,000 concurrent players and possibly nearing 600,000, while the original Hollow Knight also hits new highs with 85,000 players, both showcasing massive popularity and fan excitement for these games.
Silksong, the highly anticipated sequel to Hollow Knight, has received positive initial impressions from players and critics, highlighting its challenging gameplay, beautiful art, and engaging characters, while also noting some differences from the original, such as increased difficulty and faster pace.
A critic revisits the 2017 indie hit 'Hollow Knight' ahead of the release of its sequel 'Silksong,' and now considers it a masterpiece that trusts players to find their own purpose.
Hollow Knight is praised as one of the best Metroidvania games ever, distinguished by its subtle tutorialization, clever use of visual and environmental cues, and a design that empowers player exploration and agency, making it a masterful example of game design that deeply engages players psychologically.
A Reddit post from 10 years ago about the original Hollow Knight highlights the game's remarkable journey from modest expectations to over 15 million copies sold and immense popularity, with Hollow Knight: Silksong finally releasing after years of anticipation on September 4, showcasing the franchise's incredible growth and success.
Hollow Knight: Silksong, the highly anticipated sequel to Hollow Knight, will be released on September 4th for $19.99, maintaining a similar price point to the original game to maximize accessibility and sales, and will be available across multiple platforms including Xbox Game Pass from day one.
Hollow Knight continues to break records with a surge in players on Steam, reaching over 56,000 concurrent players just before the release of its highly anticipated sequel, Silksong, on September 4, indicating the game's enduring popularity and excitement among fans.
With the release of Hollow Knight: Silksong imminent, many fans are revisiting or discovering the original Hollow Knight, which has sold nearly 15 million copies, and the hype is leading to record concurrent users on Steam. The article invites readers to share whether they are playing Hollow Knight for the first time or returning for another run as they prepare for Silksong's launch on September 4, 2025.
The anticipation for Hollow Knight: Silksong has led to a surge in players revisiting the original Hollow Knight, causing its Steam concurrent peak to repeatedly break records, reaching over 39,000 players shortly after the release date was announced for September 4, 2025.