US EditionDespite Bringing Steam to Its Knees, Silksong Attracted More Day One Players than the Battlefield 6 Open Beta
Hollow Knight: Silksong set a new Steam record with over 535,000 concurrent players shortly after launch, ranking as the 18th highest peak on the platform, SteamDB reported.
- Hollow Knight: Silksong launched across all platforms on September 5, 2025, quickly becoming the best-selling release on Steam.
- The release came almost ten years after the previous installment and sparked such overwhelming excitement that Steam and other digital stores experienced outages due to the surge in demand.
- Within four hours of its launch, Silksong attracted a maximum of 535,213 simultaneous players on Steam, surpassing the Battlefield 6 open beta and securing the third spot on Steam’s most-played list behind Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2.
- It reached 100,000 players within just half an hour of launch and ranks among the top 20 games on Steam for peak simultaneous player numbers, with forecasts indicating it may hit one million players by the weekend.
- This rapid achievement positions Silksong among the top-performing indie releases on Steam, suggests strong and sustained sales across various platforms, and underscores Team Cherry's notable influence in the market despite the absence of official sales data.
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** Hollow Knight: Silksong crashed both Steam and the Nintendo eShop yesterday. ** The game became the 18th most played title on Steam in history. ** At one point, it had 535,000 players playing it simultaneously.
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