On the evening of September 4, 2025, the highly anticipated Metroidvania game Hollow Knight: Silksong was released on PC and consoles. The new release from Team Cherry created significant excitement.
According to data from SteamDB, a few hours after the game’s release, its peak concurrent users on Steam reached 535,213. As a result, Hollow Knight: Silksong climbed to the 18th place on the list of the most popular games in Valve’s store history, surpassing the online numbers for the open beta of Battlefield 6 (521,000 users), Valheim (502,000 users), and many other titles.
Among the games released in 2025, Hollow Knight: Silksong ranks second in terms of peak concurrent users on Steam — it was only surpassed by Monster Hunter Wilds, which had a peak of over 1.38 million concurrent users.
For comparison: the peak concurrent users for the first Hollow Knight on Steam are significantly lower. It reached 72,916 users, with this number achieved just two days before the sequel’s release. Until recently, the best record for Hollow Knight was considered to be 20,324 users online.
Judging by the Steam rating, most of the first players liked Hollow Knight: Silksong. It currently has 31,900 “very positive” reviews, with 90% of them praising the new game.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is available on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch; it is also included in the Game Pass subscription.
Source:
SteamDB
