Hollow Knight

I only own one copy of this game, and it´s from this store. Silksong will be the first and maybe only game I will ever get day 1, and it will also be from GoG.

A huge metroidvania with dark atmosphere and great challenges, the combat is smple, but clever, with charms that can be equipped to vastly change the way you approach the different fights. You can play it straightforward and be done with it in a few hours, but if you are a fan of the genre you know is not that simple, you have to explore every nook and cranny to get extra charms, abilities and spells that will grant you access to more secret areas and most importantly, the secret bosses. This game has a baseline somewhat challenging, but can turn up the challenge to "insane" if that is your thing, the path of pain, the arena of fools, godhome, and an optional permadeath game mode, is all there to challenge you and the limits of what is humanly possible, it will make you want to beat it just out of spite, no matter what it takes (including buying a new controller). The art style is equally clean and simple, but the sound design is amazing and the music is superb, so many good tracks playing in the background keeping you company in your adventure. If the game faulters in some way is in the narrative, it approaches the story the "dark souls" style, telling you little and just giving you snips of backstory every once in a while, and no matter how much I love souls or metroidvania games I think that's shoddy design and lazy writing. Overall this is an amazing metroidvania that will challenge you as much as you want to be challenged and then some, is definetively up there with Symphony of the Night, Ritual Of the Night or Zero Mission, even tho I had to google what the story was all about after "beating" it. (beating in quotes because I still have some challenges to beat in Godhome)

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

Beautiful art, most of the time it is super fun. Then you bump against some really tough mini-bosses or have to walk a long way back and it loses some of its fun. Not a game you can play for 30 minutes at at time.

EDIT: I learned, how to play this. My best gaming experience in 2025 so far. Completion rate 90% and looking for more :)