"Silk Song" Steam debuted very popular! At the same time, online players exceeded 100,000

　　Team Cherry Studio's highly anticipated Metroid-like City of Demons "The Hollow Knight: The Song of Silk" quickly detonated the Steam platform after its release on September 4. In just a few minutes, the number of online players exceeded 100,000 at the same time. This highly anticipated independent game since its official release in 2019 has finally made a brilliant debut on this highly anticipated day.

Although rumors of the game being released soon have been circulating in 2025, it was not until August 21 that the official confirmation of the release date was officially confirmed - what surprised players was that the waiting time was only a few weeks left. During the development cycle of the past seven years, the development team has always kept a low profile, and there has been no sequel to the game event. Now that the game is officially released, the number of Steam players has instantly soared to an astonishing number (other platforms are expected to be also popular), which undoubtedly has become a celebration for players.

According to real-time data, the number of online players at the same time exceeded 100,000 minutes after the release of "Silk Song" on the Steam platform, and as of press time, it had reached 112,000. This achievement is not easy: after the game is released, the Steam server broke down due to the inability to withstand the enthusiasm of players. It is worth mentioning that the previous work "The Hollow Knight" had the highest simultaneous online record of 73,000 people, which was just refreshed the day before the sequel was released. Since the development team did not issue the review code in advance, the feedback from players remains to be seen.

　　For many years, due to the studio's lack of transparency and the long development cycle for sequels, the community has repeatedly speculated that the game has fallen into "development hell". But Team Cherry recently clarified that the development process was actually very smooth, explaining that the small team was just enjoying the creative process with excellence. Players now laugh at the fact that this long wait is actually in a "development paradise".

Although it became a carnival day for fans of the series on September 4, the release of "Silk Song" also led to the adjustment of the schedule of many games: the humorous independent game "Baby Steps" was postponed to September 23, and the developers jokingly claimed that the protagonist Knight was "allergic to the wasp"; works such as "Faeland", "Little Witch in the Forest", "Devil's School" and "CloverPit" were also postponed to the end of the year.