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After many long years in the making, Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally here, and it broke records (and Steam) mere minutes into its launch.

As the most wishlisted game on Steam, perhaps this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Still, we can’t help but be in awe of what the Australian trio behind Team Cherry has managed to pull off.

Perhaps what makes this record even more impressive is that the original Hollow Knight got a new all-time peak player count the day before Silksong launched.

That peak was 72,916 players, according to SteamDB, which is a huge achievement for a 2D indie Metroidvania that released all the way back in 2017.

An impressive figure, though one that can’t compete with Silksong’s numbers.

Hollow Knight: Silksong hit 89,646 players only 20 minutes after the game launched at 3PM BST 4th September 2025, according to SteamDB.

This number will only grow, and we will keep an eye on what the peak player count ends up being.

As Silksong wasn’t available for pre-order, the number of people scrambling to buy it and install the game managed to crash Steam, with SteamDB going down with the ship too.

Seeing as Silksong released quite early for US players and late in the day in Asia and Oceania, we may see some significant peaks and troughs, and it could be that only by the weekend, we’ll be able to witness Hollow Knight: Silksong’s true power.

Time will only tell, but we can’t wait for the dust to settle so that we can get a proper measure of how the hugely anticipated title performed – and if it has met players’ expectations.

No review code was made available, so players will be making a leap of faith. Make sure to check back in on RadioTimes.com for review roundups and post-launch coverage!

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We all know the name like the back of our hands by now, but is Hollow Knight: Silksong a sequel or a prequel?

The long-awaited follow-up to Team Cherry’s hit 2017 metroidvania is out this month. If you’re wondering whether you need to play Hollow Knight first, it might be helpful to know which game comes first in their shared world’s chronology.

So, is Silksong a sequel? Is Silksong a prequel? Let’s get into it!

Is Hollow Knight: Silksong a sequel or prequel?

According to Team Cherry developers, Hollow Knight: Silksong is a sequel that takes place after the events of Hollow Knight.

While there has been quite a lot of speculation about this, information has been surprisingly scant online. The answer actually comes from a since-deleted blog post from Team Cherry.

In fact, the blog post was the very one in which the team first revealed Silksong to the public. It stated: “Hollow Knight: Silksong is the second game by Team Cherry (that’s us!) and the full-scale sequel to Hollow Knight.”

It goes on to confirm that Silksong originally started life as a DLC, but “it quickly became too large and too unique to stay as a DLC”, prompting the decision to turn it into its own standalone game.

Incidentally, this is one of the many reasons why Silksong took so long to make.

So, there you have it, straight from the horse’s mouth. While we know that Silksong is a sequel to Hollow Knight, what we don’t know is how directly the two will be linked.

Whether Silksong directly picks up where Hollow Knight left off or chooses to tell a separate story, building upon the events of the first game remains to be seen.

We’ll just have to wait and see what Team Cherry has planned when the game finally launches this week.

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