Hollow Knight is full of risks round each nook, and with out understanding precisely the place to go and what to do, you possibly can simply be left scratching your head in frustration. IGN’s Sport Assist group has put collectively a Hollow Knight wiki, together with a walkthrough, boss guides, collectible areas, and extra, so that you’re one step forward in your journey by means of the Hallownest.
Essential Hollow Knight Guides
Whether or not you are enjoying Hollow Knight for the primary time or seeking to brush up in your Metroidvania expertise earlier than Hollow Knight: Silksong releases on September 4, 2025, now we have loads of guides to help you as you discover the sport’s deep, darkish depths.
Full Hollow Knight Walkthrough
When you’re not sure the place to go subsequent, our Hollow Knight walkthrough is right here that will help you out. Whilst you can technically go to any location in any order, we advocate utilizing our development information should you want a structured method.
Our walkthrough factors out collectibles as they seem, so there isn’t any want to return to an space to do cleanup. It additionally options checkmarks so you possibly can verify off your progress as you go and hold monitor of the place you are at with collectibles, elective bosses, and extra.
You will discover our Hollow Knight Walkthrough right here. When you’re searching for ideas for a particular boss combat, head to our Bosses information.
Hollow Knight Collectibles
There are many collectibles in Hollow Knight, every essential to your journey. Arguably a very powerful is Masks Shards, which improve The Knight’s well being pool, permitting you to take extra hits. There are 16 Masks Shards, the areas of which you’ll be able to monitor in our All Masks Shards in Hollow Knight – Places Information.
Vessel Fragments are equally as precious, rising your obtainable Soul and subsequently permitting you to forged extra Spells and heal extra earlier than your Soul Meter runs out. There are 9 Vessel Fragments to seek out – use our Vessel Fragments information to trace them down.
Charms are used so as to add extra results to The Knight, supplying you with a bonus in opposition to Hollow Knight’s many powerful foes. They are often tough to search out if you do not know the place to look. Go to our Charms information, which incorporates the precise location of all 45 Charms, and use our useful checklists to trace your progress towards gathering all of them.
Talking of Charms, you may want to gather Grubs to get two of them. Grubs are scattered all through the depths, held captive in glass jars. As you discover and launch them, the Grubfather will reward you with a big handful of helpful objects, together with a Masks Shard, Pale Ore, and as talked about, Charms. Head to our All 46 Grub Places information for assist rescuing them.
Take a look at our Collectibles web page for the total listing of our Hollow Knight Collectibles guides.
Hollow Knight Objects, Gear, and Upgrades
As you make your means by means of the Hallownest, you may unlock numerous upgrades, together with Talents, Spells, and improved Nails. Our Objects, Gear, and Upgrades information tracks them multi functional place so you realize precisely the place to go to unlock The Knight’s subsequent improve.
It additionally lists Quest Objects, a lot of that are used to progress facet quests, so should you’re somebody who likes to stray off the primary path and full elective content material, this shall be of assist to you.
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