Hollow Knight: Silksong Shoots Up Steam's Most-Played Games Chart Hours After Launch, With Huge Concurrent Player Numbers as Storefront Issues Ease

Hollow Knight: Silksong is already a immense deed connected Steam contempt causing Valve’s storefront to crash, posting monolithic concurrent subordinate numbers.

At the clip of this article’s publication, and arsenic those storefront problems ease, Silksong was connected a immense 453,993 concurrent players connected Steam, making it the 3rd most-played crippled connected Valve’s level down lone Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2.

This fig looks acceptable to rise, too, arsenic much radical download the crippled up of its archetypal play connected sale. The question present is, conscionable however large volition it be? It’s already the 29th most-played crippled connected Steam of all-time, with the likes of Helldivers 2 successful its sights.

Silksong is 1 of the astir anticipated games of 2025. Over six years aft its archetypal announcement and arsenic the astir wishlisted crippled connected Steam, Silksong yet launched today, September 4, crossed PC, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and S priced $19.99 and weighing successful astatine 7.62GB.

Of course, Silksong’s existent subordinate number volition beryllium overmuch bigger crossed each platforms. Neither Sony, Nintendo nor Microsoft marque subordinate numbers public, but Silksong crashed those storefronts, too, truthful it volition beryllium monolithic everywhere. And let’s retrieve Silksong is simply a day-one Game Pass title. Yep, this one’s enormous, possibly adjacent the biggest indie crippled motorboat of each time.

Little was known astir Silksong up of launch, truthful players are lone present discovering its secrets. One of the archetypal revelations is the achievements database (Silksong has 52 Achievements and 53 Trophies to unlock and discover).

Be definite to cheque retired IGN's Silksong coverage, which includes the communicative of the superfan down the YouTube Channel Daily Silksong News, who tin yet remainder aft an unthinkable 1,693 days of videos.

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