Hollow Knight: Silksong launches to over half a million concurrent players on Steam alone

Following half a decade of hype, excitement and anticipation, Hollow Knight: Silksong has finally officially released. Given just how long fans have been waiting, it was clear that the indie title was going to have a massive launch. Even so, Silksong seems to be exceeding all expectations – having peaked at over half a million concurrent players on Steam alone within hours of its arrival.

With a peak concurrent player count of 535,213 users on Steam, Hollow Knight: Silksong is already one of the biggest games on the platform’s history CCU-wise, currently sitting as the 18th most played game ever on Steam – resting between the Battlefield 6 open beta (521,079) and Path of Exile 2 (578,569 players).

Perhaps even more impressive however is the fact that upon its official launch at 2PM UK time yesterday, Silksong managed to break Steam; the Nintendo eShop; PSN and the Xbox Store – likely due in part to the game lacking any pre-orders (meaning fans were hammering each respective store as soon as the game went live).

It was recently announced that the original Hollow Knight had sold over 15 million copies since its arrival back in 2017. Given just how big Silksong’s launch appears to be, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the sequel hit 10 million copies within its first month.

Regardless, after 7 or so years of waiting, Silksong is actually finally officially here.

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KitGuru says: Did you run into any issues trying to purchase Silksong? Were you expecting the launch to be this massive? How long do you think it’ll take Silksong to reach 15 million copies? Let us know down below.

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