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Title: Hollow Knight: Silksong fans have brought down Steam

Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:21:16 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/hollow-knight...

Hollow Knight: Silksong is officially available for purchase, after six long
years of waiting. The anticipation is at a fever pitch. Fans have swarmed to
Steam to purchase the game and, well, it looks like they overloaded the
system and shut it down. The same thing seems to be happening to the Nintendo
eShop and the Xbox Store.

Multiple social media users and data from services like DownDetector are
noting that the service is down for many people, with a massive spike in
reports pretty much the moment Silksong became available. This could be a
coincidence but it's probably not. Silksong is one of the hottest releases in
recent memory.

In any event, we've reached out to Steam and will update this post when we
hear back or when the platform has returned. Congrats to those who already
got their hands on the game.

This is a developing story.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/hollow-knight...
steam-142116085.html?src=rss

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