Six years after it was announced, it's here. Hollow Knight: Silksong has been released across all major platforms.
I've already talked about the metroidvania game's setting, so here's the release trailer for Silksong.
The game is available on PC (Steam, GOG, Xbox Game Pass), PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series One, Xbox Series S/X, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. Hollow Knight Silksong costs $19.99 in the U.S., €19,50 in the EU region, £17 in the U.K., A$ 29.50 in Australia, and CA$25.99 in Canada.
I wanted to see what the regional pricing was in India (it's $10 here), but when I visited the game's listing, Steam threw out an error. Silksong had actually managed to crash Steam's servers. I came across a couple of screenshots on social media that showed an error message, but here's the one I got (within 15 to 20 minutes of the game's release).
Steam was not the only one that was down, reports indicate that Nintendo's eShop, Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN), and the Xbox Store were all down for a while. I'm used to Steam crashing when major sale events like the Summer Sale or Winter Sale start, but never on a game's launch. Anyway, Valve managed to restore Steam access quickly.
According to SteamDB's stats, 535,213 gamers played Hollow Knight: Silksong on Steam on launch day. . This number was achieved within the first hour of the game's launch. That's incredible, isn't it? I've never seen any game crash all game stores at the same time, let alone an Indie title. That shows you how popular Silksong is.
Perhaps the fact that the game didn't have pre-orders played a large part in this, people rushed to the storefronts to buy it, and it could have caused the servers to crash. That speaks volumes of Silksong's affordable price. The game's requirements are really low, you just need 4GB of RAM, 1GB of vRAM, and 8GB of storage to play the game. Plus it was a day 1 release on Windows, macOS, Linux and Game Pass.
This could be a valuable lesson for bigger studios to learn from Team Cherry's strategies. The original Hollow Knight sold 15 million copies, can Silksong break that record?
Have you played the game?
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