Bitten by the hardware bug, Hollow Knight: Silksong gets ultrawide support

Good quality for the ultrawide monitor-owning Nic Reubens of the world: Hollow Knight: Silksong will, dissimilar its narrow-eyed predecessor, natively enactment stretchy displays up to the 21:9 format erstwhile it yet releases tomorrow. Silksong marketing-man-at-large Matthew Griffin shared immoderate demonstrative screenshots connected Xitter, confirming that it won’t necessitate immoderate of the weird bodging that Hollow Knight did to capable retired those bigger screens.

Maybe that’s not of large interest to the metroidvaning masses: Steam’s astir caller hardware survey suggests that players whose superior show tots up to either 2560x1080 oregon 3440x1440, the 2 astir communal 21:9 resolutions, marque for little than 4% of users. But dammit, accounting and accommodating for offbeat niches is what PC gaming does best, and Silksong launching with ultrawide enactment indicates it was built arsenic specified from the start. That’s important, arsenic modding successful oregon different forcing ultrawide ratios connected games that weren’t expecting them tin sometimes reveal, astir the edges, ocular clunkiness that guiltless 16:9 eyes were ne'er meant to see. Unloaded chunks of level, enemies whose animations haven’t started yet, that benignant of thing.

Image credit: Team Cherry

It’s the 2nd affirmative update connected Silksong’s techy credentials successful caller days, aft it was softly marked arsenic Steam Deck Verified connected its Steam store page. That was arguably much of a formality, fixed the archetypal runs and controls conscionable good connected Valve’s handheld, and Silksong (while prettier to my eyes) doesn’t look to marque overmuch successful the mode of other hardware demands. Though speaking of resolutions, Hollow Knight ne'er officially supported the Deck’s 16:10 facet ratio either – I confess that I forgot to cheque this erstwhile I played Silksong astatine Gamescom past month, but you’d deliberation that if 21:9 is doable, 16:10 would beryllium an implicit doddle.

We’ll find retired time (Thursday 4th September), I suppose, erstwhile Silksong yet beats the vapourware allegations. Here beryllium the nonstop merchandise times.