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Hollow Knight
Team Cherry
· Feb 24, 2017
Metroidvania
Platformer
Souls-like
Difficult
Great Soundtrack
+15
S
Like Score · tier S
12K
qualityScore
▼
25 · 7d
Price
$14.99
Reviews
497K
96% positive
Inbound MLT
8,681
peers liking this
Lifetime units
24.6M
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Overwhelmingly Positive
Live
· refreshed Aug 9
Store ↗
|
Community ↗
01
Sales
$342.28M est
02
Like Score
12K · 8.7K
03
Reviews
496K
04
Overlap
20 peers
Lifetime gross spend
$342.28M
est
grossAtFullPrice $369.13M · promo blend
Net to developer
$220.43M
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
24,624,765
▼ 93.4%
0 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$0
0% of LTD
0 units · $0.00 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 497,470 reviews collected over 9.5 years; balanced multi-language audience; non-Early-Access.
01
Revenue · monthly
Gross consumer spend USD
Gross
01
Like Score
qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus
12,250
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
S
·
▼ 25
7d
D
C
B
A
S ●
Inbound
8,680
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
121
Avg pos%
95%
→ 12,250
Score history · 30d retention
13,337 (29d ago)
12,250 (now)
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Biggest games linking to you
Steam puts Hollow Knight in their “More Like This” · 8,680 inbound · top 10 by audience
Geometry Dash
583K reviews · 93% pos · RobTop Games · 2014
Undertale
302K reviews · 96% pos · tobyfox · 2015
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
258K reviews · 95% pos · FromSoftware, Inc. · 2019
DARK SOULS™ III
277K reviews · 94% pos · FromSoftware, Inc. · 2016
Cuphead
196K reviews · 96% pos · Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc. · 2017
Dead Cells
155K reviews · 97% pos · Motion Twin · 2018
Hollow Knight: Silksong
382K reviews · 89% pos · Team Cherry · 2025
Celeste
130K reviews · 97% pos · Maddy Makes Games Inc. · 2018
Helltaker
128K reviews · 97% pos · vanripper · 2020
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
136K reviews · 96% pos · Moon Studios GmbH · 2020
03
Hollow Knight’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
Hollow Knight: Silksong
89%
382K
#2
Rain World
94%
46K
#3
Nine Sols
94%
39K
#4
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
95%
179K
#5
Dead Cells
97%
155K
#6
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
95%
258K
#7
Cuphead
96%
196K
#8
Blasphemous 2
91%
16K
Review score
9
/ 9
Overwhelmingly Positive
% positive
96.9%
cohort 71%
481,038 pos · 15,315 neg
Total reviews
496K
tracked
496,353 crawled
Velocity · all-time
204 / day
est
496,353 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
88.1%
flat
11.9% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
29 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
36.4%
180,465
97%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
22.0%
109,169
96%
ES
Spanish
10.4%
51,458
99%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
10.3%
51,220
99%
RU
Russian
8.1%
40,140
95%
KO
Korean
2.1%
10,517
95%
ES
Latin American Spanish
1.8%
9,111
98%
FR
French
1.8%
8,918
98%
TR
Turkish
1.3%
6,603
94%
DE
German
1.2%
6,087
97%
PL
Polish
1.1%
5,507
96%
TW
Traditional Chinese
0.8%
3,889
96%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
5,685
79
%
positive
1.1% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
101,944
95
%
positive
20.5% of reviews
10-100h
319,507
98
%
positive
64.4% of reviews
100h+
69,217
99
%
positive
13.9% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 481,038
Negative 15,315
34.4k
25.8k
17.2k
8.6k
0
19·12
20·11
21·10
22·09
23·08
24·07
25·06
26·05
26·08
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
496,353 reviews
Free product
9,120
/ 496,353
1.8% of total
97% positive
Early access
0
/ 496,353
0.0% of total
— no data
Key activation
50,006
/ 496,353
10.1% of total
96% positive
Steam Deck
3,981
/ 496,353
0.8% of total
91% positive
Steam purchase
437,227
/ 496,353
88.1% of total
97% positive
Recommended
481,038
/ 496,353
96.9% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
15,315
/ 496,353
3.1% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
496,353
/ 496,353
100.0% of total
97% positive
Reviewers tracked
495,673
indexed
20 peers with shared reviewers
Strongest peer
Hollow Knight: Silksong
17.9%
88,640 shared reviewers
Net-new audience
95%
est
470,889 reviewers no peer shares
Avg overlap
5.3%
3 clusters
across 20 top peers
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Audience overlap · top peers
Of this game’s reviewers, % who also reviewed each peer
Sort:
% overlap
shared
sentiment
% overlap ▼
Game
Overlap
Shared
Sentiment
Hollow Knight: Silksong
89K shared · 93% pos
17.9%
88,640
93%
Terraria
30K shared · 97% pos
6%
29,811
97%
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
29K shared · 96% pos
5.9%
29,228
96%
Celeste
29K shared · 98% pos
5.9%
29,016
98%
Undertale
27K shared · 97% pos
5.4%
26,932
97%
Hades
26K shared · 97% pos
5.3%
26,325
97%
ELDEN RING
26K shared · 95% pos
5.3%
26,169
95%
Cuphead
24K shared · 97% pos
4.9%
24,487
97%
Portal 2
24K shared · 99% pos
4.9%
24,068
99%
DARK SOULS™ III
23K shared · 96% pos
4.7%
23,407
96%
Geometry Dash
23K shared · 93% pos
4.7%
23,197
93%
Stardew Valley
22K shared · 98% pos
4.5%
22,168
98%
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
22K shared · 96% pos
4.4%
21,833
96%
Dead Cells
21K shared · 97% pos
4.2%
20,586
97%
Don't Starve Together
20K shared · 95% pos
4%
19,843
95%
Bloons TD 6
19K shared · 97% pos
3.9%
19,111
97%
ULTRAKILL
19K shared · 97% pos
3.7%
18,503
97%
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
18K shared · 97% pos
3.6%
17,690
97%
Lethal Company
18K shared · 97% pos
3.5%
17,559
97%
Subnautica
18K shared · 98% pos
3.5%
17,526
98%
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