Hollow Knight: Silksong has sold 3.2m copies on Steam alone since its release, according to analyst estimations.
Ahead of its release, Silksong was the most wishlisted game on the platform with 4.8m wishlists. It seems the majority of these have converted into full sales. That’s all led to large numbers of concurrent players – Silksong reached a concurrent player peak of over 587k two days after release, making it the 17th most played game on Steam.
These sales are according to analysis from GameDiscover in its latest newsletter, which adds Silksong has sold around 500k copies each on PlayStation and Switch (both consoles), as well as reaching 1.5m downloads on Xbox Game Pass.
Of course, part of that success is down to the popularity of the original Hollow Knight. According to GameDiscover’s data, there’s a 78.78 percent overlap in audience between the two games, with 22 percent of all Hollow Knight players on Steam buying the sequel.
The original game sold 15m copies, with sales skyrocketing due to extended hype around Silksong.
Another part of that success is the game’s price – it came in cheaper than many expected, causing debate across the industry around the appropriate cost of indie games.
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