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