Profile updated
Platforming and combat mechanics define this indie production, which secured a 2025 release window. The title maintains a 93% positive rating across 139,594 reviews on Steam. This high volume of user feedback confirms significant market reach for the project.
Overview
Hollow Knight: Silksong is a 2025 Action game developed by Team Cherry and published by Team Cherry. On Steam it has gathered 380,613 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Team Cherry with publisher Team Cherry is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 11.4 million to 26.6 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Hollow Knight: Silksong can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
380,613
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1030300
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
9,330
Fresh snapshot · · 24h peak 11,039
Sales estimate
v1.011.4M to 26.6M
units (median: 19.0M)
≈ $130.4M to $304.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 50 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Hollow Knight: Silksong at roughly 11.4 million to 26.6 million copies, with a median around 19.0 million, derived from its 380,613 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $217.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
55 observed days · window low $14.99Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-06-18.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosureLatest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 04:43 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Hollow Knight: Silksong sold?
- indielist estimates Hollow Knight: Silksong has sold between 11,418,390 and 26,642,910 units (median 19,030,650), derived from its 380,613 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Hollow Knight: Silksong?
- Hollow Knight: Silksong was developed by Team Cherry and published by Team Cherry.
- Who published Hollow Knight: Silksong?
- Hollow Knight: Silksong was published by Team Cherry, developed by Team Cherry. See Team Cherry's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Hollow Knight: Silksong released?
- Hollow Knight: Silksong was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Hollow Knight: Silksong have on Steam?
- Hollow Knight: Silksong has 380,613 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Hollow Knight: Silksong worth playing?
- Steam players rate Hollow Knight: Silksong 89% positive across 380,613 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Hollow Knight: Silksong can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Team Cherry's other releases and Team Cherry's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hollow Knight: Silksong sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Hollow Knight: Silksong page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
You might also like
Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.
See more games like Hollow Knight: Silksong →