Silksong is so popular, even people in the Piracy subreddit are encouraging others to just buy it: ‘If we can afford to support them, we should’

Hollow Knight: Silksong finally went live today—you may have heard something about that—and its arrival absolutely demolished Steam, which simply could not hold up under the crushing demand of Skongmania. As Steam crumbled like a train bridge made of soggy noodles, GOG did what it does best: Took a shot from the shadows. “It appears…

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The Silksong subreddit spent launch day sharing boss strats for Steam’s ‘cart phase’, banishing each other to the Skongless year of 2019, and—let’s see—posting hole

Our long nightmare is finally over. After years of prolonged and intensifying mania, Silksong is here, which means the long-suffering souls of the Silksong subreddit can finally know a semblance of peace. Our Harvey Randall has traditionally served as our chief chronicler of that community’s beautiful, baffling collective derangement, but sadly the UK writers are…

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Silksong already has the 18th highest all-time peak player count in Steam history as it draws over 500,000 concurrent players in its first 4 hours

The day is finally upon us. The gates are open. The silk is singing, the bugs are depressed, and after six years of waiting, people are finally playing Hollow Knight: Silksong. A lot of people. While the Skong-frenzied masses left Steam’s store server infrastructure a smoking ruin for a few hours, it only delayed what’s…

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