As the lethal hunter Hornet, adventure through a kingdom ruled by silk and song! Captured and taken to this unfamiliar world, prepare to battle mighty foes and solve ancient mysteries as you ascend on a deadly pilgrimage to the kingdom’s peak.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the award winning action-adventure. Journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover secrets tied to your nature and your past.
Hollow Knight is © Copyright Team Cherry 2025
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Posted on: September 13, 2025
thermeister
Verified ownerGames: 16 Reviews: 1
Abusive to the player
Ridiculous pointless gauntlet rooms that leave you with no choice but to keep fighting again and again so you don't lose your stuff. And first you have to endure the tedious long walks to get there. There is no way I would recommend this game to others which means I give it one star.
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Edited on: September 18, 2025
Posted on: September 14, 2025
BeelzebossErik
Verified ownerGames: 33 Reviews: 1
Has potential, but baffling game design
After playing this a whole bunch (2/3 through Act II) and slogging through some absolutely hellish bosses and platforming sections, I'm putting this game aside for now. While technically great with immediate Linux compatibility, no software problems and full of lovingly drawn characters, this game suffers from a change in design philosophy compared to Hollow Knight. It is no longer about giving you a challenge and encouraging you to overcome it, it is now about wasting as much of your time as humanly possible. Seriously, this feels like the core concept of the game. - There is a new resource to grind for using tools, meaning if you ever get stuck on a boss, you'll have to go grind that. - Enemies jitter all over the place, making fights against even 1 flying enemy a tedious dance between getting hit by contact damage and never actually getting a hit in. - You will go through a hellish platform segment WHILE beset by flying enemies that shoot bouncing projectiles. After you make it through by the skin of your teeth, you realize this is a BOSS RUNBACK. - Tons of gank-rooms that don't seem to ever end, where just bad luck can make it impossible to avoid taking massive damage. Bosses also almost always spam random ads, because why not. And if you die, you better believe the runback will once again be AWFUL. - Difficult platforming sections also have runbacks. They also used to deal 2 mask damage to make you run back extra often, but luckily at least that's fixed now. - Platforming sections require a skill that consumes the resource you need to heal, just so you have to run back there more. - Difficult platforming sections where the runback is another, lengthy and difficult platforming section - Seriously, this game is OBSESSED with having you re-do content you have already completed over and over and over. Putting this down for now, I feel like I got my money's worth in the early game. Hopefully they fix it sometime to be actually enjoyable.
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Posted on: September 9, 2025
DentistOfPain
Verified ownerGames: 39 Reviews: 4
Far to petty
Many people will discuss how difficult this game is. It is not difficult. It is petty. Game design decisions were made that make this game decidedly less fun to play. if you die (twice) you lose your limited resource. if you lose your reource you cannot unlock the save spot. without the save spot you have huge setbacks on death and you lose your resource.
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Posted on: September 15, 2025
PFUDOR
Verified ownerGames: 105 Reviews: 1
A hate letter to Fans
Kind of gives the impression that they did not playtest this enough and forgot how to make a fun game.
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Posted on: September 8, 2025
CandyBoxFrog
Verified ownerGames: 1 Reviews: 1
Overall a letdown
I am so very crestfallen writing this review. I don't think Silksong is fun or good. Perhaps all of the praise for Hollow Knight made Team Cherry think, "wow, we can make great games" instead of, "wow, we made a great game". And maybe they spent some of the past 7 years convincing themselves that they made something really great again. Sadly, I do not think they have. I read the Jason Schreier/Bloomberg article about why Silksong took so long to make and I was unnerved by Team Cherry's apparent complete disconnection from their fanbase. But I mean, it is totally valid to want to create something you love and to believe that doing so will produce something authentic that others will genuinely love, too. But that did not happen with Silksong. Poor level and boss design, artificial difficulty, unfair/annoying/tedious BS, resource scarcity... a pale imitation of what was, essentially "Hollow Knight, but not as good". I desperately want to love this game, but it is not worth that. And I genuinely think Team Cherry should reflect on their design philosophy that left people like me in the dark and unconsidered for so long, who now after finally playing the game have the miserable feeling that "wow, this game really wasn't made with me, or anyone else, in mind."
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