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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.

Developer
Team Cherry
Publisher
Team Cherry
Franchise
Hollow Knight
Release date
Feb 24, 2017
Store page updated
Apr 14, 2026
Price
$14.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

93.0/ 100

Based on 413 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 4,160
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 561,495
“probably the best game ever made, everything is absolute perfection”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.39
Difficulty +2.46
“finally winning is insanely satisfying after brutal 42-boss marathon challenge” (48)

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Story & World
+3.87
World +4.43
“beautiful atmosphere and interesting world” (67)
Отличная игра с красивой атмосферой, сложными боссами и интересным миром. Очень рекомендую!

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Content Volume
+2.97
Volume +4.16

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Visuals & Sound
+4.54
Audio +4.58
“one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a while” (34)

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Multiplayer
+3.57

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Community +2.80

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Fairness
+1.18

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +3.59

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Tech & Ops
+3.23

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Stability +1.70

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Feb 2017Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 4,128 reviews, peak 181/day
0100200
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 413 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English27%
  • Russian15%
  • Spanish14%
  • Portuguese14%
  • Chinese13%
  • Turkish4%
  • Other12%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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