{"id":6804,"date":"2025-09-04T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:54:00","slug":"hollow-knight-silksong-launches-with-over-500000-steam-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/gaming\/hollow-knight-silksong-launches-with-over-500000-steam-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollow Knight: Silksong Launches With Over 500,000 Steam Players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier today, we shared the exciting news about the <a href=\"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/hollow-knight-silksong-launch-crashed-steam\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6793\">launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong, and it was such a monumental event that it actually took down Steam&#8217;s servers<\/a> along with several other gaming platforms! Thankfully, things have settled down, and Steam is back up and running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that we can catch our breath, the numbers are in, and it&#8217;s absolutely mind-blowing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the very first day, within just a few hours, more than 400,000 players were diving into Hollow Knight: Silksong simultaneously on Steam, with it now going well over 500,000 players &#8211; what an amazing start!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/embed\/?appid=1030300\" height=\"389\" style=\"border:0;overflow:hidden;width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original <strong>Hollow Knight<\/strong> made a mark in the indie gaming world, racking up an impressive<strong> 15 million units sold worldwide!<\/strong> The excitement surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/tag\/silksong\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"486\">Silksong <\/a>has been building for years, and its launch at such an accessible price of around $19.99 has only added to the love from the gaming community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, Silksong is absolutely thriving as the third most-played game on Steam, boasting a vibrant community of active users. It&#8217;s outpacing heavyweights like <a href=\"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/tag\/helldivers-2\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"247\">Helldivers 2<\/a>, Apex Legends, and even the popular PUBG: Battlegrounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We can hardly wait to see just how far Hollow Knight: Silksong will go!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Silksong-Steam.png\" alt=\"Hollow Knight: Silksong\" class=\"wp-image-6805\" style=\"width:900px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Silksong-Steam.png 690w, https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Silksong-Steam-300x289.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list is-grid columns-2 wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, we shared the exciting news about the launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong, and it was such a monumental event that it actually took down Steam&#8217;s servers along with several other gaming platforms! Thankfully, things have settled down, and Steam is back up and running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6,9],"tags":[190,205,210,296,312,345,366],"class_list":["post-6804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-latest","category-lifestyle","category-pc","tag-gaming","tag-headline","tag-hollow-knight-silksong","tag-news","tag-pc","tag-silksong","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyonegaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}