Hollow Knight: Silksong

 PC
Metascore
90

Universal acclaim - based on 44 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 44
  3. Negative: 0 out of 44
  1. Gamekult
    Sep 9, 2025
    70
    Hollow Knight: Silksong is quite the thorny case, because you can easily be disappointed in the face of its numerous hardships. By shipping a much more difficult experience, Team Cherry may lose some players. A daring choice we could praise if it was more slickly executed. Team Cherry had a real treasure but lost pearls along the way. But Silksong is no bad game. It remains a singular poetic experience, different from 8 years ago. Sceptics will need to accept the game has real qualities, from its univers to its improved combat mechanics. So then, we remember Silksong was born as a DLC. And it could have been an excellent DLC.
  2. VGC
    Sep 13, 2025
    60
    Hollow Knight: Silksong is caught in a web of trying to bind two conflicting genres together, with the expectations and norms of each half damaging the other. The beauty of its art design and precise, joyful feel of its movement are inarguable wonders, but the tiring and demotivating nature of its sadistic approach to challenge ripples throughout the entire experience of exploration and combat. It's more of what was good about Hollow Knight, but it failed to avoid some very clear pitfalls in design on its long path to release.
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  1. 3DJuegos
    Sep 13, 2025
    Silksong is one of the best games of this year. A marvellous adventure game with a great (and hard) combat system, an incredible sense of exploration, and tons of secrets and remarkables moments. [Recommended]
  2. Kotaku
    Oct 28, 2025
    Silksong still yields so much to see, and there are inarguably more nooks and crannies than ever to explore in Pharloom, but Hallownest’s elegant and understated mystique is absent here, and it is instead replaced by a labyrinthine behemoth–complete with many proverbial Minotaurs–though one that instills in you the pressure of obligatory completionism rather than the liberating sense of adventure.
  3. Polygon
    Sep 16, 2025
    In Silksong, there’s always a new horror that will replace whatever last vexed you. You could become discouraged, and likely, you will, at least for a while. Eventually, though, you’ll tap into one unassailable truth: you are capable of more than you realize.
  5. Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Sep 9, 2025
    Silksong, I can and will get mad at you. But I can’t STAY mad at you. You brilliant, beautiful bastard of a game.