The Daily Populous Friday September 5th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by gameluster.com and submitted by TokyoDrifblim

Today is finally the day, as Hollow Knight: Silksong is out right now! Unfortunately however, the launch is so enormous that it just crashed Steam’s platform on PC. All Steam pages are currently down at the time of writing, including game pages, the store front page, charts and more. The outage coincided precisely with the launch of Silksong, with fans across social media desperate to get into the game with no way to purchase it.

The release of Hollow Knight: Silksong is one of the most anticipated launches in modern gaming history, especially as the sequel to one of the biggest indie games of all time. There are other ways to play Silksong as you can read for yourself in our launch guide, but for now it seems Steam isn’t an option for PC players. It’s also available on GOG, Humble Bundle and PC Game Pass if you’re a PC user looking for a quicker way to play.

This is a developing story and will be updated as more comes in. Keep your eyes on GameLuster for more Silksong coverage and Steam server updates.

Proof-Necessary-5201 on September 5th, 2025 at 00:12 UTC »

Isn't Hollow Knight an indie platforming game? How is it so big?

KyotoCrank on September 4th, 2025 at 16:03 UTC »

That's awesome. I love that for them. This goes to show that quality is everything. Make a good game, and take your time doing it, and fans will come running when it's ready.

I hope Steam has stabilized by the time I get home

Funny-Film-6304 on September 4th, 2025 at 15:00 UTC »

Just glad I downloaded Avatar Frontiers earlier today, to play for the next weeks xD Not really interested in Silksong, it's crazy that the game release crashed Steam.

Edit: Guys, not everyone is into these kind of games....Enjoy Silksong, I'm not saying it's a bad game. It's just not for me. I spent 10h in Hollow Knight before accepting, that it'll just frustrate me.

And it really is crazy, that a 7GB game breaks that many stores. I get that 100+GB games achieve that, because each installation takes quite a long time on average. But 7GB are typically downloaded in a short time. The amount of people starting the download at the same time must've been crazy high.