Hollow Knight: Silksong is popping out in lower than two weeks, and you already know what which means, proper? Yup, which means it is time to play (or replay) the unique Hollow Knight! Which is precisely what quite a lot of people are doing.
Hollow Knight, launched on PC in 2017, has reached an all-time high concurrent player count today on Steam (per SteamDB), eight years after launch, nearly actually because of the Silksong information. On the time this piece is being written, it is sitting at 23,840 concurrent gamers, an all-time peak.
Previous to this, concurrent participant counts have been sitting roughly round 10,000 for months on finish, normally a bit beneath. However after the Silksong information yesterday, they started climbing, reaching 16k yesterday afternoon and dipping barely in a single day earlier than taking pictures up once more as we speak in a playercount that appears poised to climb even greater all through the day and into the weekend. The earlier all-time excessive was over 20k gamers in 2022.
That is seemingly resulting from a surge of gamers operating to replay Hollow Knight, or play it for the primary time, forward of the discharge of Silksong on September 4. There was no scarcity of curiosity in Staff Cherry’s standout Metroidvania within the years since its launch, as we now know it is offered 15 million copies throughout all platforms.
The sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, appears to be like to be even larger than the bottom recreation of Hollow Knight if the trailer proven yesterday is any indication, and it seems like there’s much more Silksong to return after launch. We acquired to play slightly little bit of Silksong at gamescom this previous week, with our previewer saying it “exhibits little signal of disappointing.”
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