Hollow Knight: Silksong launch breaks global game storefronts

Today’s (September 4) release of Hollow Knight: Silksong crashed global stores right across Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam’s digital platforms.

As fans clamored to purchase and download Team Cherry’s highly anticipated follow-up to the indie smash Hollow Knight, players found themselves unable to complete their purchases or even load the game’s page on online stores.

Nintendo ended up having to briefly take its store offline completely, whilst attempts to purchase the game on Steam triggered “something went wrong” error messages, and players on PlayStation were struggling to find the game on the PSN Store at all.

Xbox Game Pass subscribers similarly struggled to download the sequel via either their apps or the Xbox console.

Team Cherry’s solo adventure is already one of the biggest games of all time according to SteamDB, securing a spot in the Top 20 biggest Steam games ever by concurrent count — a record likely to be repeatedly smashed as we go into the weekend.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is Steam’s most wishlisted game of 2025, appearing on 4.8m wishlists.