
The long-awaited game Hollow Knight: Silksong launched on 4 September 2025 and caused digital storefronts across the globe to crash within minutes, leaving thousands of gamers unable to buy the game as demand overwhelmed platforms like Steam, PlayStation Store, and Nintendo eShop.
At exactly 3:00pm BST, Silksong went live on Steam. Within moments, user complaints flooded online outage trackers as store pages failed to load, purchases were blocked, and error codes appeared. Between 3:00pm and 5:30pm, many Steam users were completely unable to access the game.