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How long isHollow Knight: Silksong?

by Team Cherry

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35 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 11 hours and 70 hours

Hollow Knight: Silksong among the 121 metroidvanias here

The whole tier list
SPlayed tier

#1

of 121

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

77%
got past 2 hours
+34 on the kind's 43%
56%
past 20 hours
+47 on the kind's 9%
84%
launched it
+26 on the kind's 59%
338
libraries own it
1 in 7 of the 2,453 read here
Hollow Knight: Silksong ↓
#1 Hollow Knight: Silksong#121
S#1 Hollow Knight: Silksong77% past 2h
S#2 Hollow Knight73% past 2h
16% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

A bargain: 57¢ an hour, cheaper than 179 of 184 metroidvanias here.

Does Hollow Knight: Silksong hold up?

Wears thin

Do the first two hours of Hollow Knight: Silksong tell you?

In the first two hours88%recommend it

After that90%recommend it

10 in 100 said no: 10 after the window had closed.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 35 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 11 hours and 70 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 426,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It is recommended most by players at 2–5 hours: 90% of them. Among players at 10–20 hours that falls to 82%.

4% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 88% of those recommend it. After the window, 90% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 95% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 19 hours in.

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When would you get there?

5weeks

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 35 hours on Friday, December 18.

Half of its reviewers had played between 11 and 70 hours: Nov 24 to Jan 22, 2027 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Hollow Knight: Silksong?

The filter

Fanatic

10 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Servant and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. LiberatedDefeat the Bell Beast−1585% hold it
  3. Pharloom's WelcomeDefeat Lace in Deep Docks−877% hold it
  4. ServantDefeat Fourth Chorus−275% hold it
  5. FanaticDefeat WidowFiltered −1065% hold it
  6. Judge−560% hold it
  7. Last DanceDefeat the Cogwork Dancers−258% hold it
  8. TragedianDefeat Trobbio−652% hold it
  9. HarmoniousLearn the Citadel's Threefold song−448% hold it
  10. White KnightDefeat Lace in the Cradle−147% hold it
How this is counted

85% of the players who launched Hollow Knight: Silksong hold Liberated, its first story achievement on Steam, and 47% hold White Knight, its last. The steepest drop comes between Servant (75%) and Fanatic (65%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Where did you leave it?

Stopped part way? Your Steam profile brings back the story so far, read aloud, up to the last story achievement you hold. Nothing past it.

No Steam, or played it elsewhere?

Is Hollow Knight: Silksong worth it?

Is Hollow Knight: Silksong worth it? Mostly.

  • A steal

    3× the hours of a typical metroidvania, for the same money

  • Loved

    90% recommend it after the refund windowmost metroidvanias: 89%

  • Gets played

    84% of owners here have played itmost metroidvanias: 59%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 35 hours come to 57¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 90% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 57¢ an hour, Hollow Knight: Silksong is cheaper per hour than 179 of 184 metroidvanias here: the typical one of 184 metroidvanias here charges $1.71, so the same $19.99 buys 3× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (metroidvanias) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Is Hollow Knight: Silksong better now than at launch?

How this is counted

Its Steam reviews began in September 2025. Of those posted in the first 30 days, 86% recommend it; of those posted in the last 12 months, 94% do.

One token is 2% of the reviews first posted in its first 30 days, and in the last 12 months. Each counts with the verdict it carries today, so a review its author has since changed shows the new one. The biggest comebacks and falls.

Where can I play Hollow Knight: Silksong today?

Almost anywhere

PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2 and 3 more.

  1. todayXbox Series2025
  2. todayPS42025
  3. todayPC2025
  4. todaySwitch 22025
  5. todayPS52025
  6. todayXbox One2025
  7. todaySwitch2025
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Hollow Knight: Silksong came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like Hollow Knight: Silksong?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Hollow Knight: Silksong, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Hollow Knight: Silksong would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

@danonyyy holds this page

  1. 1st@danonyyy278 h
  2. 2nd@mobpsycho123 h
  3. 3rd@attila-the-heather98 h
  4. 4th@teddy-bear-inc91 h
  5. 5th@catch76 h
  6. 6th@definecoffee70 h
  7. 7th@derk69 h
  8. 8th@mrtester54 h

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with Hollow Knight: Silksong?

  • S

    The middle pick of 16 players on the Steam tier list

  • 1 in 7

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

    • @definecoffee
    • @attila-the-heather

    In the Top 4 of 2 players here

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.

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  2. 2

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  3. 3

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  4. 4

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  5. 5

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    Hollow Knight: Silksong, but a third of the hours, and even better loved

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  6. 6

    ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

    Hollow Knight: Silksong, but darker, and half the hours

    Loved · 94%Games like ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

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How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Hollow Knight: Silksong: a kind of game it is that Hollow Knight: Silksong is not, a feature its tags carry that Hollow Knight: Silksong's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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