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It would come as no surprise to hear that Hollow Knight is one of the most successful indie games of all time, right? An immensely popular Switch launch (a quarter of a million sales in its first two weeks) and six years of waiting for one of the most hyped-up sequels ever is bound to do that. But it turns out that the melancholic metroidvania has sold even better than we expected.
In a new interview with Bloomberg (paywalled), studio co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellan stated that Hollow Knight has sold around 15 million copies since it launched back in 2017. 2.8 million of these sales came before Silksong was announced in 2019, and an additional 12 million have come in the years since, the devs stated.
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