Hollow Knight
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Hollow Knight is a metroidvania, souls-like and platformer game
developed and published by Team Cherry.
Released on February 24th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Japanese.
It has received 392,081 reviews of which 380,533 were positive and 11,548 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.6 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 (64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E5200
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 9800GTX+ (1GB)
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 9 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 1080p, 16:9 recommended
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS 10.13 (64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 470
- Storage: 9 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 1080p, 16:9 recommended
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E5200
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 9800GTX+ (1GB)
- Storage: 9 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 1080p, 16:9 recommended
Reviews
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One of the best games I've ever played. The storytelling, the graphic, the music, the gameplay, all perfect. I've only one question left...: WHERE IS SILKSONG??????
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This is definitely my favorite game of all time. It's absolutely beautiful visually, the story is amazing, the music is incredibly immersive, and it's replayable as fuck. I come back to it all the time and I still never get tired of it. I've been playing this game for 6 years at this point. An absolute masterpiece.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template
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i played hollow knight for the first time with my sister during covid. we were both absolutely atrocious at video games and our first playthrough of the most basic ending took almost 100 hours, passing the controller off whenever one of us got stuck. Still, despite being god-awful at it, that did not dissuade my love for the game. Those memories with my sister are some of the fondest I have for a game, and hollow knight ignited my passion for platformers as a whole. recently, I've been playing through it again, streaming it to my friend and flexing how "gamer" I am. I'm a lot better now, which is good since with my sister in college I'd have nobody to pass the controller to when I'm stuck, but every time I pull off a tense platforming moment or beat a boss I was struggling with I can't help but feel like I'm doing it to impress her. Hollow Knight took me on a journey and I loved every minute of it, even dying repeatedly to watcher knights for like three hours. :]
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Overview: Genuinely one of the best games ever made. If you love story rich 2d games with a good challenge, this game is perfect for you. That being said, this game is extremely difficult for newcomers in some aspects and it can be quite frustrating at times so its not exactly meant for everyone. However, the feeling of overcoming a difficult boss after a long hard grind, really feels like it pays off and it just makes everything feel so much more rewarding. The game will most likely take you about 30-40 hours on your first play through and if you're a masochist like me and go for the full 112% completion, it will probably take an additional 10-15 hours (if its your first time of course). The story: The main plot of this game is confusing when you first start out don't get me wrong. As you explore and progress through the game more and more though, the story starts smoothing out so trust me, it does get better if you find yourself bored at first. Do please take the time to explore the game, don't just rush through it. Dialogue from characters or pieces of text you can find in the world adds this certain richness to the game and not much is ever really told to the player specifically which makes you think a bit and piece things together on your own. The combat: Everything feels nearly perfect. It starts off slow and pretty basic but like other metroidvainias, you will find upgrades that add new additions to your movement and attacks. The beauty in the combat is figuring out and learning different ways of dodging and attacking on your own by just simply playing the game and determining what works and what doesn't. Also to top it off, the sound design for combat is gorgeous and everything feels so buttery smooth and satisfying. The soundtrack: One of the most beautiful video game soundtracks every composed. Different locations all have their own unique sounds and feels to them and the music for each location perfectly fits those feelings respectively. Boss fight themes are almost always bangers (certain bosses do have repeated themes but these bosses tend to not be as big of threats and are usually pushovers). The fight themes always make everything just feel more intense and do an amazing job of hyping you up. The art style: What is there to say? Its stunning. The difficulty: DISCLAIMER: THIS GAME IS HARD. Don't expect yourself to quickly beat bosses, especially the later game ones. They were all designed differently and no boss can be fought in the same exact way as another. Platforming is also quite difficult and this game does have its fair share of it. You will get better the more you play however, I promise, so don't get discouraged. It can be very frustrating at times but sometimes all you need is a break for a while and that usually helps overcome the games more difficult challenges. Replay-ability: Very very replay-able game. There is always something to come back to even if you finished the base game. Whether its god-home and you're trying to ascend the pantheons, or maybe you decide to speed-run the game or even complete it on steel-soul (this games version of a hardcore mode where dying is permanent). Overall, yes its very replay-able and trust me, certain bosses will want to make you come back.
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Online players
9,599
Developer
Team Cherry
Publisher
Team Cherry
Release
24 Feb 2017
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