The Silksong Effect? September Sees Lowest Number of Steam Releases in Years

The Silksong Effect? September Sees Lowest Number of Steam Releases in Years

03 Sep 2025 02:00

Hollow Knight Silksong has attracted a lot of player attention. Other industry participants have to adjust their plans.

After the release date of Hollow Knight Silksong was announced (September 4), the authors of various projects began to postpone the release of their games in order not to clash with the Team Cherry project.

Steamcito_ar was curious to see how many games are planned for release in September 2025. He studied SteamDB data and it turned out to be the most "unloaded" month in recent years:

«7 out of 10 [game developers] canceled their release, leaving 575 out of 1,713 projects. This monthly number of releases has not been observed since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 (559 releases).»

Steamcito_ar graph (auto-translated)
Steamcito_ar graph (auto-translated)
Hollow Knight: Silksong
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Hollow Knight: Silksong

Приключенческий боевик
2021 г.
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Boris Piletskiy
03 Sep 2025 02:00
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