- Hollow Knight: Silksong has been a huge steam success on first day
- The demand for the game slowed down the PC store for a review
- After one day its top contemporary player count of over half a million
Now that Hollow Knight: Silksong is out, it has been impossible to contain hype and demand for the long -awaited game.
As we mentioned in our Silk song Live Coverage Blog, Console and PC Storefronts – including Steam, Nintendo Eshop and PlayStation store – couldn’t bear brown from hundreds of thousands of players who fell on them like a plague of gaming pieces.
Steam was especially hit hard, with users running into a litany of problems. These included (but were not limited to) Silksongs Store site is not loaded, users are unable to add the game to the shopping cart, and several occurrences of the game are added to the shopping cart, probably as a result of furious clicks.
Now that the dust has settled, online database steamdb has updated day 1 -statistics to Hollow Knight: Silksong. At the time of writing, the game has reached a top simultaneous number of player numbers of 535,213.
Not only is it a little more than the recent Battlefield 6 Open beta (which reached a highlight of 521,079 players), it is also currently the 18th highest top contemporary player count on record.
Besides, if you take multiplayer-focused games as Counter-Strike 2At Monster Hunter WildsPUBG: BATTLGROUNDS, and Dota 2, Silksong Seems to have the seventh highest top play number among one-player-focused games. In this regard it is only behind Baldur’s Gate 3At Hogwart’s inheritanceBanana (?), Elden RingAt Cyberpunk 2077At and Black myth: Wukong.
And it’s on steam alone. Personally, I bought the game from GOG to a DRM-free version, while Valve’s storeplace excited under the pressure. I can also imagine Silk song Have done similar well on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X | S, especially thanks to its Day-One Xbox Game Pass launch.
