Hollow Knight: Silksong

GameSpot

Jordan Ramée·Sep 24, 2025

Critic90/100

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Hollow Knight Silksong takes all the best parts of its predecessor and somehow makes them even better.

Game Informer

Matt Miller·Sep 16, 2025

Critic90/100

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is beautiful, nuanced, and deeply rewarding, but it’s also tuned to be grueling in ways that aren’t always fun in the traditional sense.

Nintendo Life

Alana Hagues·Sep 15, 2025

Critic100/100

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Hollow Knight: Silksong's beauty is beguiling, hiding an interior that's deliberately harsh but endlessly rewarding. Everything feels deliberate, pushing you to learn, improve, and perfect, or simply just explore a little more. And what a world it is to dig into.Somehow, Team Cherry has surpassed my expectations tenfold and delivered a mesmeric blend of balletic combat and movement with persistence, joy, and an incredibly invigorating map at the centre. I've never felt better surmounting the challenges put in front of me, and I'm already raring to do it a second time.

IGN

Tom Marks·Sep 14, 2025

Critic90/100

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An unapologetically challenging sequel packed full of sharp platforming, enticing exploration, and nail-biting combat.

PC Gamer

Tyler Colp·Sep 13, 2025

Critic90/100

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A 2D action game that'll make you work to see what all the hype was about.

Eurogamer

Christian Donlan·Sep 11, 2025

Critic100/100

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Pretty and charmingly mean-spirited, Hollow Knight: Silksong is a game filled with revelations - and genuine personality.

Rock Paper Shotgun

James Archer·Sep 9, 2025

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I want to give Hollow Knight: Silksong a thrashing. A fully suited C-suite bollocking. I want to verbally repay unto it every cruel death, every pernickety jumping puzzle, every time-thieving runback it’s inflicted on me across the past five days. But I can’t. For…

GamesRadar+

Oscar Taylor-Kent·Sep 5, 2025

Critic80/100

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is a near perfect followup to its justifiably revered predecessor. Unfurling from its cocoon, this Metroidvania has evolved on just about everything I loved about the original.

Push Square

Simon Fitzgerald·Sep 5, 2025

Critic90/100

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The love, care, and attention that's gone into making Hollow Knight: Silksong is already very evident in its vast array of gorgeous environments, earworm audio, and tough but fair platforming challenges. Pharloom is a land we just can't get enough of, and we can't wait to see where Team Cherry will take us as we work towards the conclusion of the campaign.