I was wondering why the Store page wouldn’t load.

And those number are with it releasing on gamepass day one too

really. i had no idea hollow knight was that popular, for me it was just a plucky little indie metroidvania. i don’t even recall seeing much about it online in recent years. guess the fandom must have kept to themselves.

It appears that they have.

I’ve been replaying Hollow Knight this week, and despite it being years since I played, I still had the muscle memory. So I was just blazing through, I mean once you do the crazy parcore in the castle the other challenges are pretty easy

The skills do not transfer over, I’m almost as bad as I was going into the first game

So far, this game is exactly what was promised… You’re Hornet from the last game, in a new place, with a new story

It’s like playing Hollow Knight for the first time again

This time.

Not always though. Many good to great games fall through the cracks and never make much money.

That’s like 10 million dollars on the first day with just steam. Insane actually

The Hollow Knight fandom has literally been going schizophrenic for the past 6 years because nobody knew or not if Silksong was actually on development, or if it was going through development hell, or even if it was going to be cancelled, and it didn’t help that the devs were SILENT for that entire time. Turns out, the game was actually being made this entire time and only took this long because they kept adding every idea they had into it, so it was actually going through development heaven lol

Path of pain changes a man.

Silksong also didn’t presale and by extension had no way to early download. I think they didn’t want data miners and spoilers.

It wasn’t actually the download infrastructure that crashed steam, it was the payment APIs (my cart didn’t work for a full 2 1/2 hours!)

We were sacrificing people on reddit in the Hollow Knight sub in order to get the game released before I left there. I still volunteer as tribute.

Steam pre-downloads are encrypted.

They probably weren’t expecting this much, and didn’t pre-scale the server instances. Having more capacity than you need is expensive.

I am playing the original Hollow Knight before streaming Silksong on twitch, and holy shit I have never felt this ASS at a platformer before. 90% of the time I’m falling off platforms by accident or somehow falling off and AVOIDING EVERY PLATFORM FOR NO REASON and falling all the way down. Usually into acid.

Yeah, the fandom never died. There’s just no other platformer like it, the controls are so tight and the game itself is extremely well polished

People still do speed runs of Mario 64 and ocarina of time, Hollow Knight is like… Objectively the best 2D platformer of all time. It is singular, the games that inspired it and the games that copy it don’t compare

Although so far, Silksong has not disappointed, it took forever but it’s actually living up to expectations so far

It genuinely does. I never thought I was the kind of person who could complete the path of pain. It was very painful. It took days. But I did it, and I realized I could be that kind of person if I just refuse to give up. I could be any type of person if I want it enough

Lol… Wait until you play Silksong. Hollow Knight is about straight lines and timing, if you want to be Hornet you have to learn to dance in the air

You need positioning, timing, and angles. You have to dance into their guard and hit with precision, you can hit them while dodging their strike, you have to dance in between them and the hotbox of their attack

Sleeping and stepping away helps.

Steam isn’t what had the issue. It was the payment processor. You can tell because multiple digital storefronts all died at the same time.

Ok, like what? Got a top five they were really great but no one noticed?

You better believe that Rockstar will be doing preorders as well. Those sales will be spread out over weeks, so won’t experience the congestion caused by Silksong.