Hollow Knight: Silksong
Worth it · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 28.2h
- Value
- $0.71/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1GB), Radeon HD 7750 (1GB), 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. It has been discounted 3 times in the 13 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 14 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hollow Knight ($14.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats RV There Yet? ($7.99, scores 79).
2 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 14,662 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
28.2 hours to finish it, 65 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 423,623 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
90% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Cite this score
Hollow Knight: Silksong scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1030300/hollow-knight-silksongReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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