Hollow Knight: Silksong surpasses half a million concurrent players following launch

Hollow Knight: Silksong has reached over half a million concurrent players a day after its release on September 4, 2025.

That’s according to SteamDB, which recorded a peak of 535,213 players for Silksong on the platform.

Team Cherry’s long-awaited title also made it into the Top 20 biggest Steam games ever by concurrent count.

This happened during and after Silksong’s release crashed global digital storefronts across Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and Steam.

Its popularity resulted in Nintendo taking its store completely offline, and users attempting to purchase the title on Steam were being met with error messages.

Silksong is Steam’s most sought-after game of the year so far, appearing on 4.8 million wishlists.

The game’s predecessor, Hollow Knight, hit a new peak of over 71,000 concurrent players on Steam in the run up to Silksong’s release.

The 2017 game has already beaten that peak, having now almost reached 73,000 players.