Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hollow Knight: Silksong is an adventure game developed by Team Cherry and released in 2025. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 6.

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 52 achievements to unlock.

Hollow Knight: Silksong holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 521 votes.

The main story runs about 51.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 82 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $19.99, that works out to about $0.39 per hour of the main story, or $0.24 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-3240, AMD FX-4300, 4 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1GB), Radeon HD 7750 (1GB). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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The cheapest verified price right now is $19.99 at GOG. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Argentina is the cheapest region we track at $6.99 (about $6.99), while United Kingdom pays £16.75 — 3.2 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 8 on Steam, which is about $8.19.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong launched on 4 September 2025, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Silent Hill f, Hell is Us and Cronos: The New Dawn. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Silent Hill f, Hell is Us, Cronos: The New Dawn.

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