The long-awaited release of Hollow Knight Silksong recently took place. The game was #1 on Steam's wishlist.
Steam servers recovered from the sharply increased load, players gradually began to connect, and as a result, Hollow Knight Silksong demonstrated a peak online presence of 535 thousand players.
The new product from Team Cherry turned out to be in 18th place in the list of the most popular games in Steam history — between Path of Exile 2 (578 thousand) and the open beta of Battlefield 6 (521 thousand).
If we consider only the releases of 2025, then Silksong was able to bypass only one project — Monster Hunter Wilds with a peak online presence of 1.3 million players.