Hollow Knight
BANGER · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$7.4950% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.56/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 567,502
- Critics
- 87 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 27h
- To 100%
- 65.7h 2.4x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 63
Price and sales
- Sales
- 57 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 May 2022
- Sale every
- 52d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5,633 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
57 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 17 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Ori and the Will of the Wisps ($29.99, scores 77) and Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($9.99, scores 60), are both worse buys on this math.
$41.16 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $14.99.
More about Hollow Knight
87 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 27-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 10,951 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 27 hours. Doing everything runs 66, 2.4 times as long.
The rating rests on 567,502 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.49 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 121 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Seldom do games capture me the way this one has. Whether they're minor details or major ones, each part of the game helps constitute this whole. It's truly one of the greatest games I've ever experienced. I believe the game's difficulty is for everyone. It has a low skill floor and an immensely high skill celing. The speedruns, self imposed runs, game's own challenges, they all showcase just how deep the combat...
2 more reviews
Great game. The lore is also incredible, especially when you finally piece together why the final boss stabbed himself, as he's actually trying to help you . The soundtrack is amazing. The sealed vessel OST is the only thing that kept me sane during the path of pain. The only downside is that the credits are unskippable.
Nothing.. NOTHING will give me the same feeling as descending down the elevator into city of tears for the first time. The slow build up with the music progressively building up, the meeting with quirrel on the bench as you watch the rain fall. All building up to descending the elevator to the outside and the main chorus starts to play. 10 out of 10 I'm a little disappointed i wont get something like that ever...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1GB), Radeon HD 7750 (1GB), 9 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Hollow Knight scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/367520/hollow-knightReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.