Hollow Knight: Silksong has already surpassed half a million concurrent players on Steam mere hours after its launch.
After years of hype, Team Cherry’s bug-filled Metroidvania finally released yesterday. On Steam, Silksong was the most wishlisted game on the charts and that’s now converted to a huge number of players.
At the time of writing, Silksong has an all-time peak of 535,213 players. That’s already the eighteenth highest all-time peak of concurrent players ever, beaten only by Monster Hunter Wilds in terms of games released this year.
And that player count will only increase over the weekend once more players download the game and get stuck in.
What’s more, this is just Steam. Silksong is also available across both Switch consoles, PlayStation, and Xbox, as well as on Xbox Game Pass, so there are plenty more people playing the game across all platforms.
Yesterday, the surge of players downloading Silksong immediately caused server chaos across almost every platform.
It’s clear Silksong is proving to be an exceedingly popular release – but does it live up to the hype? We’ll have a full review in the near future.
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