Posted on: September 9, 2025
ManaUser
Verified ownerGames: 108 Reviews: 12
Overhyped
The art is cool and unique, but unfortunately the actual gameplay is very monotonous.
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Hollow Knight
Description
Hollow Knight Expands with Free Content
Godmaster - Take your place amongst the Gods. New Characters and Quest. New Boss Fights. New Game Mode. Glorify Charms. Available now!
Lifeblood - A Kingdom Upgraded! New Boss. Upgraded Bosses. Tweaks and Refinements across the whole game.
The Grimm Troupe - Light the Nightmare Lantern. Summon the Troupe. New Major Quest. New Boss Fights. New Charms. New Enemies. New Friends.
Hidden Dreams - Mighty new foes emerge! New Boss fights. New Upgrades. New Music.
Brave the Depths of a Forgotten Kingdom
Beneath the fading town of Dirtmouth sleeps an ancient, ruined kingdom. Many are drawn below the surface, searching for riches, or glory, or answers to old secrets.
Hollow Knight is a classically styled 2D action adventure across a vast interconnected world. Explore twisting caverns, ancient cities and deadly wastes; battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs; and solve ancient mysteries at the kingdom's heart.
- Classic side-scrolling action, with all the modern trimmings.
- Tightly tuned 2D controls. Dodge, dash and slash your way through even the most deadly adversaries.
- Explore a vast interconnected world of forgotten highways, overgrown wilds and ruined cities.
- Forge your own path! The world of Hallownest is expansive and open. Choose which paths you take, which enemies you face and find your own way forward.
- Evolve with powerful new skills and abilities! Gain spells, strength and speed. Leap to new heights on ethereal wings. Dash forward in a blazing flash. Blast foes with Fiery Soul!
- Equip Charms! Ancient relics that offer bizarre new powers and abilities. Choose your favourites and make your journey unique!
- An enormous cast of cute and creepy characters all brought to life with traditional 2D frame-by-frame animation.
- Over 130 enemies! 30 epic bosses! Face ferocious beasts and vanquish ancient knights on your quest through the kingdom. Track down every last twisted foe and add them to your Hunter's Journal!
- Leap into minds with the Dream Nail. Uncover a whole other side to the characters you meet and the enemies you face.
- Beautiful painted landscapes, with extravagant parallax, give a unique sense of depth to a side-on world.
- Chart your journey with extensive mapping tools. Buy compasses, quills, maps and pins to enhance your understanding of Hollow Knight’s many twisting landscapes.
- A haunting, intimate score accompanies the player on their journey, composed by Christopher Larkin. The score echoes the majesty and sadness of a civilisation brought to ruin.
- Complete Hollow Knight to unlock Steel Soul Mode, the ultimate challenge!
An Evocative Hand-Crafted World
The world of Hollow Knight is brought to life in vivid, moody detail, its caverns alive with bizarre and terrifying creatures, each animated by hand in a traditional 2D style.
Every new area you’ll discover is beautifully unique and strange, teeming with new creatures and characters. Take in the sights and uncover new wonders hidden off of the beaten path.
If you like classic gameplay, cute but creepy characters, epic adventure and beautiful, gothic worlds, then Hollow Knight awaits!
Hollow Knight is © Copyright Team Cherry 2017
Popular achievements
Attunement
Collect 600 Essence
common
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30.63%
Beast
Destroy Herrah the Beast
common
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31.16%
Release
Defeat the Broken Vessel
common
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33.78%
Charmed
Acquire your first Charm
common
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63.43%
Honour
Defeat the Dung Defender
common
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34.71%
Enchanted
Acquire half of Hallownest's Charms
common
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32.92%
Falsehood
Defeat the False Knight
common
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53.98%
Grubfriend
Rescue half of the imprisoned grubs
common
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31.58%
Test of Resolve
Defeat Hornet in Greenpath
common
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51.87%
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Time to beat
26.5 hMain
41.5 h Main + Sides
64.5 h Completionist
41.5 h All Styles
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IGN
9.4/10
Hollow Knight’s rich world and incredible depth of content will make you want to explore its caves for dozens of hours.
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9.3/10
Hollow Knight has some frustrations, but the urge to see what's in the next room is a constantly compelling imperative moving you forward
Read full review »PC Gamer
92/100
Hollow Knight is a new classic, with a dense and detailed world full of secrets to discover.
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Posted on: September 15, 2025
marshmallow_dev
Verified ownerGames: 6 Reviews: 1
No Map In This game
The game has no map. Or it has one, but it's just decorative. Genius design in a metroid game, where a map is essential. The map doesn't show you where the player is, where save stations are or which rooms still have stuff in them to do. Resident Evil has solved this design problem 20 years ago. I don't know why modern designer are so stupid. But respect for not having difficulty settings. This enable the designers so have a difficult design challenge, which can result in better design. I think the difficulty is good. After 3 hours, I have no motivation to continue, because I the metroid genre has the problem of not telling the player where to go. Again, this was solved with RE 20 years ago. But metroid designer are too stupid to learn.
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Posted on: September 16, 2025
oliver.garcia.rg_7
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Posted on: November 23, 2019
Sarxis
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Not Ori...
but also not bad.
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Posted on: January 10, 2020
24H7h
Verified ownerGames: 27 Reviews: 4
One of the best Metroidvanias
One of the best Metroidvania games out there. It is challenging but fun.
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