Hollow Knight: Silksong has sold more than 4.2 million – Report
Blog Andrew Joseph 18 Sep , 2025 0

Hollow Knight: Silk Earlier this month, like a hurricane, it has raised the numbers that major developers would envy. silk Pulled five million players In just a few days, it was considered in the download on the game pass. Now, Silksong is closing 5 million sales across all platforms, according to a new report.
this Gamediscoverco Newsletter Its latest sales estimate for Hollow Knight: Silksong has been shared. An estimated 3.2 million copies have been sold on Steam, while the game is believed to have 500,000 copies on both PlayStation 4/5 and Switch 1/2. This will bring current sales to 4.2 million, without considering any sales in the Xbox Consoles family. These Xbox sales figures are not easy to obtain, but Silksong downloads on Xbox Game Pass are estimated to be 1.5 million.
Alinea Analytics Starting from the week of September 7 to 13, its Steam sales data were also shared. Border 4 Sales were 749,000, ranking first, followed by 530,000. Surprisingly, Silksong's debut pushed the original Hollow KnightSales reached 205,000, ranking fourth this week. According to Alinea, this is the third consecutive week of Hollow Knight that has broken more than 200,000, although 15 million have been sold so far.
The Cherries’ silk success has not been without some complaints in the industry. Hell is usCreative Director Jonathan Jacques Bellet Recent criticism of the Cherries Silk was dropped on September 4, only two weeks notice. Hell was our date for six months, and Jacques-Belletête believes that sales of his game were negatively affected by the sudden arrival of silk.
Some players think the game is too difficult, which immediately leads to Silk mods Designed to make it easier. The Cherries then released their own Patch that reduces the difficulty of silkThe studio is currently Working on the second patch Resolve the error.