The fear that Hollow Knight: Silksong would be so amazing that players would ignore every other game release in September was not justified. Many developers, independent ones in particular, postponed launching their titles to avoid clashing with Silksong, which we now see was unnecessary.
Looking at Steam sales in September so far, Silksong was #1 in global revenue during the week of Sept. 2, the time of its release. Despite an astronomical count of over 500,000 concurrent players on Silksong two days after, the game slowly dropped in the sales charts in the following weeks. It was #4 on the week of Sept. 9, losing to Borderlands 4. For the week of Sept. 16, it dropped to #14, getting surpassed by Dying Light: The Beast, Silent Hill f, and the indie game Jump Space.
