Given that the hype for Hollow Knight: Silksong has been thunderous enough to shake the internet to its core throughout the past several months, it's hardly a surprise that the game has rocketed out of the gate now that it finally launched on September 4. What is surprising, though, is just how explosive that release has been (it even briefly crashed the Steam store).
As SteamDB data shows, Silksong near-instantaneously shot up to over 500K concurrent players on Valve's PC gaming platform Steam after launch, and it hasn't dipped below 300K since then — even during the least active hours in the dead of night. As I write this, it stands at just over 480K, and earlier on Friday, it achieved an astounding peak of 562,814.
