More people playing Hollow Knight on PC than ever before when compared to the Silk Looming Man

Hollow Knight: Silk is Out in less than two weeksyou know what this means, right? Yes, that means it's time to play (or replay) the original Hollow Knight! This is exactly what many people are doing.

Hollow Knight was released on PC in 2017, already Today, the highest number of concurrent players was reached on Steam (Per SteamDB)Eight years after its release, it was almost certainly due to Silk News. At the time the article was being written, it sat at 23,840 concurrent players, which was a historical peak.

Prior to this, the number of concurrent players was about 10,000 months, usually more than below. But after yesterday's Silk News they started climbing, reaching 16K yesterday afternoon, slightly dipping overnight, and then shooting again in today's game, which seems ready to climb all day and weekends. The previous all-time high was more than 20k players in 2022.

This is likely due to the player who released Silk on September 4, playing for the first time in the running Hollow Knight or first playback. There has been no interest in the Cherry Team Team's outstanding chariot since we know it now 15 million copies sold On all platforms.

The sequel “Hollow Knight: Silk” looks like Greater than the basic game of the Hollow Knights If there were any signs of the trailer shown yesterday, it sounded like there was There are more silks after launch. We must go Play some silk on Gamescom last weekour previewer says “there are almost no signs of disappointment”.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior journalist at IGN. You can find her post on bluesky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Is there a story tip? Send it to [email protected].