Hollow Knight on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 406,532 reviews of which 394,495 were positive and 12,037 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.6 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 12.18€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Hollow Knight into these genres:

Metroidvania Souls-like Platformer Great Soundtrack 2D Difficult Indie Singleplayer Atmospheric Exploration Adventure Story Rich Hand-drawn Multiple Endings Action Dark Fantasy Open World Cute Controller Side Scroller

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

Finishing this game had me feelin some type of way. Like when you have the uncontrollable need to read every wiki-page available and watch every YouTube video in existence. The best feeling.

Dec. 2024

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??????

Dec. 2024

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.

Oct. 2024

Hollow Knight and I have an interesting history. I started off feeling very "meh" about it. The boss fights were incredibly long without a health bar to know how close I was getting, several bosses were difficult because of ads or environmental hazards rather than the actual boss being hard, and so many bosses were were optional that I missed a vast amount of content in my first playthrough. I "beat" the game on my first playthrough and thought that was pretty much it, put the game down and moved on to the next thing. It wasn't until at least a year later that I watched a random youtube playthrough of Hollow Knight that I realized I didn't just miss one or two bosses, but I missed entire regions, abilities, and amazing charms. I am also someone who is normally quite thorough in exploration. I decided to get back into the game and I played Hollow Knight the way it was actually intended. Having the basics down, I experimented with spells, charms combinations, and different strategies. The experience was night and day. Boss fights became much faster, and were no longer tedious now that I was doing consistent damage at close and long range. I explored every inch of the map (looking for Silk Song), found every boss, and took on the Pantheon. Even as a souls veteran who is used to challenge, the Pantheon was the hardest challenge I've faced yet taking me over 8 hours to finish P5 alone. If you stick to it, it is also extremely rewarding once you've climbed that mountain. Hollow Knight is one of those rare gems that depends on what you put into it. If you only explore the surface level, you'll have a nice experience that likely won't be anything special. The caves are vast and you'll enjoy the sense of exploration and being lost. However, if you invest time to explore, master mechanics, and take on all of its challenges, you will quickly find Hollow Knight rising to the top of your list of favorite games. it will also make you sad that Silk Song isn't out yet.

May 2024

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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