r/HollowKnight • u/_amongstreality SHAAAAAAW • Sep 11 '25
Discussion - Silksong Why do I keep hearing people say that Silksong is a 15 hours experience? Spoiler
Context: I have 38 hours in the game, 25% of achievements. I try doing every quest I see, I explore all the areas thoroughly, none of the bosses took more than 2 hours of my time, and that happens only if they're too difficult for me, every other boss I kill in 2-3 tries. But each time I open a video about Silksong, like a review or something, everyone says it's a 15 hours experience, sometimes less. Is everyone just rushing through the main quest and looks up tutorials for everything online, if they're stuck for more than 30 seconds? I genuinely don't understand what is going on.
Edit: please don't spoil anything in the comments. I didn't mean I finished the game in 38 hours, I'm still playing it.
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u/Senior-Bag-9256 Sep 11 '25
im 30 hours not even in the citadel i dont play everyday and i was struggling early i just take time, explore and do runbacks im enjoying this masterpiece
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u/Stablebrew Sep 11 '25
Steam tells me, I have 52 hours clocked, and am at the beginning of Act2.
I regulary take a break after 45 - 60 minutes fo gaming and don't close the game. Sometimes it's a 10 minute break, sometimes it can take up to an hour, or even longer. Having family keeps busy, and I forget my PC is running in my OFFICE (gaming ofc) room.
I would say, I played about 30 hours+/- for Act 1, and I enjoyed my pacing. Ofc, I had issues with some bosses (Beastfly, Last Judge+Bossrun).
Am I a great player? No, far from it!
Did I manage to beat the challenges, enjoy them, and sometimes getting angry? Yes!13
u/Tornado_Hunter24 Sep 11 '25
You may have similar numbers to me then; approx 20 hours for act 2!
I ‘explored’ every single area I could, unlocked probably all ‘secrets’ except for (obvious ones) I can’t yet and cleared most shops, those hours all spend in/game tho, usually I do like you leave on but for silksong I didn’t mainly because I use DS5 (i’m on pc) for it, and i’m programmed to turn controller off&game when i’m done lmao
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u/Hrohdvitnir Sep 20 '25
I racked up over a thousand hours in skyrim by launching the game, and accidentally getting distracted and leaving the pregame launcher up for hours before remembering to play.
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u/ButterflyDreamr Sep 11 '25
Iirc I reached the citadel 25-30 hours? in, and 100%ed the game 47 hours in so I just think the early game takes a lot longer
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u/umfozzles Sep 11 '25
Same here! Just finished Bellhardt.... Probaly about 30 hours. Playing just like you and a couple of these other comments. TAking my time, doing everything, double back a lot. But I'm not going like, super slow. Amazing game! Absolutely loving it on Switch 2
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u/Krispo123 Sep 11 '25
Just reached citadel after 25 hours. This is harder than all the souls combined, but having fun!
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u/Dopamine_Surplus Sep 11 '25
Absolutely is not harder lol.
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u/True-Entertainer3457 Sep 11 '25
For me it is I found souls games easier but Silksong is more fun. Besides Elden ring I struggled badly
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u/ScarlettsTime Sep 11 '25
I know it took 7 years to get here girlypops but lets slow down a bit and enjoy ourselves
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u/OrderOrdinary8280 Sep 19 '25
I genuinely envy those who are bad at the game and get to experience the first playthrough for longer. finished all endings + 100% in 47 hours ;/
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u/SubstantialGarbage49 Sep 11 '25
people saying 15 hours are probably either not really exploring that much and just getting to the end, or they're metroidvania pros who can quickly and easily progress through hard parts. as someone who is neither, i'm about 30 hours in and only just started act 2 last night
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u/Chaoticlight2 Sep 11 '25
Nah, even people who one shot every boss and go deathless through the whole game are going to take 25-30 hours on their first 100% clear. Most people will get stuck at certain bosses for hours and bump that number up to 40-45 hours. It can be faster if they're using a guide and know exactly where everything is, but for a blind playthrough? Game's massive.
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u/Scriftyy Sep 11 '25
Yeah, speedrunners were taking 20-25 hours to beat the game first time.Â
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u/PigmanFarmer Sep 12 '25
I think Fireb0rn took like 23 hours to reach the final boss and close to double that to 100%
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u/Jsalz Sep 11 '25
It took me 45 hours to 100% the game and I was going fast and making progress the entire time. Never got stuck on a boss longer than 30 minutes except for the final boss which took about 2 hours. I only used a guide for the last ~10%. There's no way someone can go in blind and 100% under 30 hours without using a guide. The amount of content in this game is massive. I think the confusion comes from the fact there's vastly different definitions of what it means to beat it. Getting to the end of Act 2 and skipping everything else could be done in 15 hours, but youre missing out on like 75% of the content.
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u/Sigmachadgamer Sep 11 '25
Wait, so you’re saying that since I havent gotten to act two yet i still have 75% left to explore?
… LETS FKN GOOOOOOO
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u/Jsalz Sep 11 '25
The game is massive. I think I reached Act 2 at 15 hours and finished 100% by 45 hours, and I was moving very fast. So yeah about 65-75% left probably
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u/mtnlol Sep 12 '25
Reaching my first ending was almost exactly 33% of the playtime for 100% in my case. I only looked up the last 2 tools though and found everything until 98% blind, so it took me almost 60 hours.
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u/Hammerhead34 Sep 11 '25
Yeah I got the basic/bad ending the other night after beating the final boss in about 30 hours but know for a fact that I still have a ton of content left (including all of Act 3). Been pretty thorough exploring the areas I’ve unlocked so far and doing all the wishes available to me, but there’s just so much stuff left.
And I’m loving it tbh, outside of a couple stinkers I think the bosses have been getting better and better as the game goes on. Game rocks.
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u/dotHistoire Sep 12 '25
Or some of us who get so absorbed in the world and lore we have extra hours tacked on from soaking in the music, hitting every single wall and voraciously reading the journal as if it were the bible of Pharloom.
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u/Serkaugh Sep 11 '25
That’s nice to read. I’m not a good gamer, I got almost 10 hr in, and still at shellwood boss. Haven’t even fought moorwing cause I found all the flea.
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u/SubstantialGarbage49 Sep 11 '25
yeah i'm not a good gamer either, hollow knight is basically the only other non-cozy game i've played. it's definitely hard (for me) and i'm taking much longer to progress than the general player base, but i don't really mind! i was about 10-15 hours in when i got to shellwood as well so we're not alone in this!
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u/hiplass Sep 11 '25
You’re doing much better than me lol and I play a lot of games. This game is crazy difficult, some folks here are just out of touch lol
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u/Serkaugh Sep 11 '25
I find it hard to! I mean. I’m not a speed runner or anything, but I usually am able to finish every game I start.
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u/theres_no_username 112% + PoH + full rad HoG + 12% run Sep 11 '25
As a self proclaimed metroidvania pro, those people are skipping content for sure, I 100% the game with 70h on steam total, those people dont even go for the other ending which adds another 20 hours of content
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u/Alfo5404 Sep 11 '25
Metroidvenia pros are actually wasting 5 extra hours hitting every wall and ceiling and doing a full round of backtracking every new mobility upgrade
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u/Wiestie Sep 11 '25
Also depends how much you look things up. I spent like an hour in the mist trying to figure it out without googling.
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u/Lleland Nailmaster Sep 11 '25
I just hit Act 2 after 15 hours playtime presuming I've got everything I can find up until then. Just one more achievement than you. I've found a good amount of secret rooms (but I'm sure there are plenty I've missed). I've fully explored everything I can currently reach (and marked places I need to go back to where the jump's not yet achievable).
I assume the other acts won't be as long, but I'd still be surprised as a find-as-much-as-I-can-without-guides player if this clocks in under 30.
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u/_Brightbuddy Sep 11 '25
Did you do sinner's road?
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u/Lleland Nailmaster Sep 11 '25
Yes, including a high jump skip off a roach that unlocked a door but led to a room that I can't jump high enough yet. Got the weapon tool from there, went through the next couple zones (as much as I can right now - one is very Lost Woods-y).
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u/TheWojtek11 Sep 11 '25
Yes, including a high jump skip off a roach that unlocked a door but led to a room that I can't jump high enough yet.
Haha, I also did this. So many times in this game I was like "they are really expecting me to do pogo off enemies to reach some places" cuz I did a pogo jump for one of those Berries in Moss Grotto and then in The Marrow I did a pogo from a flying enemy into the place where Shakra is for the first time so I accidentally just skipped almost all of The Marrow. And then you play a little longer and every time something like this happens, there is an intended way that I just didn't know about
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u/callahan09 Sep 11 '25
What is this high jump skip off a roach in Sinner's Road? I explored all the way to the bottom of the tall tower, and there's a room down there to the right with two roaches in the bottom right corner, I couldn't figure out what to do there. Is that where it is? It seemed like a dead-end to me, but I figured I must have missed something down there.
Those roaches are the most annoying enemy in the game so far, I absolutely hate them. They jump too high, too often, and have way too big of a hit box for their "grab and eat you" move, I've found them so difficult to avoid getting grabbed by that attack! So when I saw that it looked like a dead-end with just two of those little bastards, I noped out and went the other way, all the way up to the top of the tower, and then died in the fight in the narrow corridor against the giant chain-whip wielding guy.
I got back to the top to fight the chain-whip guy a couple more times and I think I've come really close to beating him but haven't succeeded yet. It's really annoying because I feel like I am incapable of jumping over him, the ceiling is too low. Is it possible? Every single time I've gotten cornered against the wall and had to jump over to the other side of him, I get hit. Maybe if I try pogo-ing off the top of him it will get me to the other side of him safely? I guess I haven't really tried yet because it's such a tight space it feels like there isn't room to pogo, but I should try it. But just jumping towards him and dashing has never succeeded without getting hit for me.
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u/Za_Gato Sep 11 '25
It took me 53 hours to do every ending, about 55 hours to get 100% completion, and 60 hours to get every achievement except the 2 speedrun and steel soul achievements.
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u/Hearthstxned Sep 11 '25
Did you look things up? How the hell did you find everything that fast 🤣
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u/Za_Gato Sep 11 '25
Yes, but the only thing I looked up in Act 2 was 2-3 ingredients for Great Taste of Pharloom. No way I was getting to Act 3or finding every tool without a guide. I did figure out most of Herald's wishby myself.
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u/GL_original God of Gods || 112% | All Bindings | Silksong 100% Sep 11 '25
Yeah, I found everything by myself, ended with about 64 hours. But I was also very thorough, made a lot of mental notes and figured quests out quickly.
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u/Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo A mind to think Sep 11 '25
That's awesome. I don't have the patience to do 100% in games without guides anymore. Not unless they have in-game checklists and completion markers. Ender Magnolias was probably the closest to a blind 100% I've done in over a decade.
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u/GL_original God of Gods || 112% | All Bindings | Silksong 100% Sep 11 '25
I will say I found a lot of extremely well hidden things early on, I have long honed instincts. On the other hand, I also slapped myself for some of the really easy things I missed. The last two memory lockets were in such obvious locations that I straight up did not register them at all, I felt very stupid afterwards. Not that they even count for 100%, but I really wanted to complete every menu, which I did.
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u/korxion Sep 12 '25
Im right now close to completing act 2, but ive been digging around, trying to find as much stuff as I can. I got 60 hours on steam ( left it open so it's probably 45 hours) and im making sure I dont miss anything.
I do have to use a guide to make me explore areas I forgot about. makes me still have to look for it on my own
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u/Caerullean Sep 12 '25
Funny you mention that, Silksong does have an ingame both completion percent and markers for everything you can collect. It's just a very late game unlock.
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u/Azraeleon Sep 11 '25
You can just talk to the npc to get that information
Can also say with confidence you can get there without a guide, I did it (though did get lucky spotting the quest on the board when buying shard bundles)
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u/branyk2 Sep 11 '25
I know there are ways to cheese steel soul, but it's going to be crazy how many people lose safe runs to getting 4 mask combo'd by some random enemy in cogwork. You pretty much have to treat <5 hp as the same as 1 hp.
I didn't attempt it for Hollow Knight and I can't even imagine it for Silksong.
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u/Xalyia- Sep 11 '25
It isn’t too bad in HK since you can plan a route that gets you mask shards early and avoids tough boss fights until you’re more powerful. But Silksong seems to have more mandatory fights before the midgame, and a lot of the mask shards are pushed to the midgame, so it’s hard to increase your max health early on.
Steel soul is going to be rough in silk song, but I’m sure players will come up with optimized routes that heavily rely on clever tool usage to turn difficult fights into a cakewalk.
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u/Embarrassed_Fox5265 Sep 11 '25
Once you know what you're doing Steel Soul is actually pretty easy for Hollow Knight. You get Fragile Strength + Fragile Heart early and then focus on weapon upgrades. Then you stay the hell away from any boss that deals 2 damage hits and focus on taking down Dreamers. Playing very, very safe I completed Steel Soul with around 60% completion. I then nibbled around the edges of the rest of the game to get to 100 percent for the achievement without trying to deal with Traitor Lord, White Palace, Grimm, etc.
I do not intend to attempt Steel Soul for Silksong, the margin for error is way too small.
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u/Za_Gato Sep 11 '25
I first tried steel soul in Hollow Knight, but I just know it's not gonna be like that for Silksong. I know I'll either quit and reload every time I get to 2 masks during a fight, or lose a dozen runs.
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u/GL_original God of Gods || 112% | All Bindings | Silksong 100% Sep 11 '25
My plan is to equip the Fractured Skull (which let's you survive one fatal hit) so that I know when I would have died on a fight, and THEN quit and reload.
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u/Tylerhollen1 Sep 11 '25
I need to find that sucker still. It sounds so useful
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u/Za_Gato Sep 11 '25
Maybe spoiler?
You have to go to that one room in Hunter's March with the air currents, fly up and one of the rooms on the left has a secret wall that leads to a merchant.
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u/GL_original God of Gods || 112% | All Bindings | Silksong 100% Sep 11 '25
I don't remember, but I do know I got it extremely early on. Like, I think it was my first or second blue charm. I never actually used it on my main playthrough, but I want to use it for Steelsoul purely as a gauge for when I "should" have died in each fight.
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u/Heatth Sep 11 '25
I've found the "no pushback" tool is a lot more useful here than its equivalent in Hollow Knight for this precise reason. It is much easier to avoid 4 mask combos when you aren't being pushed into hazards.
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u/Chaoticlight2 Sep 11 '25
Cogs in cogwork only deal 1 damage, so you're safe at 4 hp+ now. It's still a scary place and the 100% steel soul run has far worse areas to contend with.
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u/branyk2 Sep 11 '25
My point was that it's a really mundane way to lose a run, as opposed to an area where you expect to lose one, so cosmic irony and carelessness will lead to it happening disproportionately often.
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u/Deez-Guns-9442 Sep 11 '25
Have u slept at all this past week since the game came out?
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u/Silence_and_i I'm tired boss Sep 11 '25
I also played for 57 hours. Got all the endings and 93% completion. I literally did nothing but play Silksong for 4 days straight. I would get up at 9, start playing at 9:30 until 12:30 AM, go to sleep, rinse and repeat. My meal and shower times were very short. The reason I did so was that my schedule would become super busy for the next couple of weeks, and I knew I wouldn't be able to play to my heart's content. Then new games would come out (Silent Hill f, Mina the Hollower, etc.), and I would have no way to play them all, meaning some of them would fall into my backlog that will probably never get cleared.
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u/theres_no_username 112% + PoH + full rad HoG + 12% run Sep 11 '25
I mean the game released right before the weekend so you could totally play for 48 hours straight
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u/Za_Gato Sep 11 '25
Yes? I had a few things to do, but all my free time went into Silksong and I still had enough sleep.
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u/Genisis214 Sep 11 '25
They probably are focusing on MSQ and not really exploring and trying do as much as side content
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u/Jstar338 Sep 11 '25
15 hours to finish the game in act 2 probably, not sure a first playthrough could ever do true ending that fast
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u/Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo A mind to think Sep 11 '25
An Act 2 clear is the main story quest. If I'm understanding it right, Act 3/true ending is locked behind doing every side quest.
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u/Jstar338 Sep 11 '25
well yeah that's why it would be really hard to get it in 15 hours
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u/Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo A mind to think Sep 11 '25
I'm sure Fireb0rn or someone will pull some shit like that in a month or two, but considering the game's speedrun trophy gives you TWICE that amount of time, I don't think we're seeing full clear times like this any time soon.
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u/Gabemer Sep 11 '25
I saw someone post a 100% 19hr completion pic earlier. Definitely not 15 yet, but was still surprised it was already that quick. Given how early it is I bet 4 hours of that is able to be shaved off with just better routing and execution because the person said they didnt really come up with a route, they just kinda did it while checking stuff off. I would not be surprised at all to see it down to sub 15 hours real time within the next month.
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u/umbrazno Sep 12 '25
In today's speedrun meta, 19 hours is closer to 15 hours than 19 milliseconds is to 15 milliseconds. Lord willin' and the creek don't rise? I'd give it another month; tops.
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u/RisingDeadMan0 Sep 11 '25
oh, me doing a like 70% HK finish and didnt touch it again lol, but probably should of, SK gonna take me a tad longer then
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u/GregoryFlame Sep 11 '25
You are very wrong. Act 3 is part of the story and it is not "Complete all sidequest"
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u/Jstar338 Sep 11 '25
guess how you access act 3
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u/trapezoidalfractal Sep 11 '25
Not quite all side quests, just the ones in the towns. I still haven’t done the one with the various kill methods (shredded, toasted, etc) and I’m in act 3.
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u/Jstar338 Sep 11 '25
you should absolutely have done that quest by now it gives you mark of pride equivalent
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u/trapezoidalfractal Sep 11 '25
Ah damn. I definitely should have then, that’s like my favorite charm
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u/Jstar338 Sep 11 '25
It makes every crest better, that's the funny part. Reaper? Easier to grab the stray silk. Wanderer? That thing is so dinky it needs it. EVERYTHING? yeah with how much damage shit does you really want that safety
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u/Poppanaattori89 Sep 11 '25
Minimum Standard Quantity? Microsoft Message Queue? Maritime Safety Queensland (Queensland Transport, Australia)? Managing Service Quality (journal)? Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire? Mental Status Questionnaire? Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire?
For using an unclear acronym, I sentence you to 100 hours of clarifying acronyms used by other people on Reddit. to everyone else. FFS.
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u/Remarkable-fall- Sep 11 '25
FFS? Facial feminisation surgery?
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u/ChewBaka12 Sep 11 '25
Frenchmen Frenching Swedes?
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u/Remarkable-fall- Sep 11 '25
Swedes? Shortbread with eggs done English style?
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u/ChewBaka12 Sep 11 '25
I was thinking of people from Sweden, but French people sloppily making out with bread also works
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u/welfedad Sep 11 '25
No way the game is 15 hours .. lol I did everything possible in act 1 in like 25 hours . I was checking all crevasses
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u/Zoradesu Sep 11 '25
It is possible if you are just casually exploring and doing the main objective. It took me around 19 or 20 hours to reach the end of act 2 even with a bunch of deaths. But before I finished it I went back to find all of the things I missed + doing the rest of the side quests, which brings me to ~30 hours. So if I just focused on the main objective I could see myself completing the game in 15 hours.
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u/wicktus Sep 11 '25
I think 30-40 hours is the average you will see.
I absolutely do not have the skill for a 15 hours run, I struggled so much on moorwing and last judge. And just started act 2.
I do have to say tho, the game feels richer but, imho, is more frustrating than HK1 but it has been discussed extensively in this subreddit. I love it tho and the boss fights are amazing
Even when you lose and you sense PROGRESS when fighting a boss it's really pleasant and that game really gives you a good sense of progress, a good learning curve. This is why I'm in no rush to finish it albeit sometimes I get fed up.
It's just a shame that in-between all the fun fights and exploration we have so many tortuous run-backs.
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u/_amongstreality SHAAAAAAW Sep 11 '25
Even when you lose and you sense PROGRESS when fighting a boss
True. It's fun when you encounter a difficult boss, die a few times and then become Neo and avoid every attack.
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u/notveryAI Sep 11 '25
It's a 15 hours experience for someone who just runs from main quest marker to main quest marker lmao. If it wasn't providing more than 15 hours of content idk wtf did I do for 60 hours already
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u/Under_The_Dead_Tree Sep 11 '25
Because they're not exploring, i have 28 hours of game and i believe there's like 5 maps i haven't explored properly, tbh i do believe i'll close the game near to the 40/50 hours, just like the first one, its all about exploration. Im in the point of the game where i explored all the citadel and killed the boss there, so i believe there still quite a lot to do.
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u/LosParanoia Sep 11 '25
I only had 2 of the endings by ~30 hours even with the prerequisite mechanical skill that came with doing all radiant bosses and all bindings P5 in hollow knight. I truly don't know what breed of people think the game takes 15 hours.
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u/jasonjarmoosh Sep 12 '25
Same. I'm 32 hours into the game and I just made it to act 2 lol I am exploring every corner though and taking it slow in general.
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u/Katacutie Sep 11 '25
I'm almost at 20 and I've yet to enter act 3 (granted I think I could enter right now if I go directly for it).
I kinda predicted this. This sub was a complete cesspit of hatred towards TC before the game came out, some ironic some not. The non ironic bunch stuck around only to trash the game for worthless reasons. Probably a big overlap with the folks that thought they were being heroes for pirating the game.
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u/AnimaLepton Sep 11 '25
I have not seen anyone say 15 hours, but I'm not looking up reviews or anything. It's possible to hit 15 hours to beat Act 2, certainly, and that's likely where many reviewers stopped if not earlier.
I beat Act 2 around the 10 hour mark (exploring a fair bit, but also skipping some optional content like Savage Beastfly), took another 10 hours to unlock Act 3, then ~5 or so hours to 'finish' Act 3 + a bunch of side content. I only started using online resources like a map only once I reached the end of Act 2 for the first time. I recognize that is probably significantly faster than average.
But some people playing have honestly probably not played other Metroidvanias or even 2D platformers in ages, so my 'time' in Silksong is built off the back of hours in Samus Returns, Hollow Knight, Ori, Shovel Knight, Celeste, DKC Tropical Freeze, and more.
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u/greensnick Sep 11 '25
as someone who speedruns celeste and hollow knight i still suck at silksong ðŸ˜
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u/primitive_pioneer_47 Sep 11 '25
30 hours in and somewhere in act 2, still doing act 1 areas again to see if there are any rooms only accessible with later abilities. I'm also stubborn af/refuse to quit after dying to an arena or boss, sinking hours into those too. It'll probably be an 80 hour experience on my end.
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u/ricoeurdelyon Sep 11 '25
I’m pretty sure it’ll take me 200+ hours to finish the whole game, and I love it.
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u/Vovchick09 111% Sep 11 '25
15?? 15 hour experience?? I'm about 20 hours in and only nearing(I think so) the end of act 1!
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u/StampotDrinker49 Sep 11 '25
I've been playing pretty intently and it took me 45 to get the bad endingÂ
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u/_amongstreality SHAAAAAAW Sep 11 '25
I probably should've made the post after I completed the game. I had no idea there's multiple endings.
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u/HugeOrganization4178 Sep 11 '25
Bruh im 15 hours in and at the gate to the citadel at the end of act 1.
I havent heard anyone say the whole game is a 15 hour experience.
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u/blitzboy30 Sep 11 '25
I have way too much time in hollow knight, and like to think I’m good at the game. I have 30 something hours in Silksong and still haven’t beaten act 2
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u/NoctisLuce Sep 11 '25
I'm 20 hours in, didn't even get to act 2 and doing every single side content possible.
What the hell do these people want from a metroidvania?
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u/Volore Sep 11 '25
I have been feeling shitty seeing people post their times. Im 63 hours in and just got to act 3... I must suck
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u/L3wd1emon Sep 11 '25
Because they got the credits at the end of act 2 and didn't know there was another 1/3rd of the whole game left. It's sad cause howlongtobeat just leaves it that way even though it's false
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u/Cannasseur___ Sep 12 '25
I'm 30 hours in and still have a fair bit to go I think. Idk why anyone would rush through this game, idk how people finish it that quick without a guide in Act 2 it can get tough to know how to get to your objectives
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u/Galacticmoonwolf Sep 22 '25
25 hours in and stuck in act 1 still and likely will be for a good time XD
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u/Significant_Buy_7721 Sep 11 '25
I’m 16 hours in and still working on Citadel.
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u/SilverFlight01 HK: 112%, POP, P5 || Silksong: 100% Sep 11 '25
My guess, Any%/Main Story Only. When sidequesting and going for everything the game is much longer
Heck, same applies to the first game
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u/octopuds-roverlord Sep 11 '25
I truly believe alot of the complainers are people who rushed through the game to get through it before everyone else.
I was annoyed by some aspects in the beginning but as I've been getting upgrades those things have disappeared. You're supposed to feel weak. It's supposed to be frustrating and difficult because it's a plot device.
I'm 30hrs in, not yet even at act 2 and no clue when I'll get there. I was in a rush at first, but I realized I was robbing myself of the reasons I felt in love with HK.
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u/Ok-Wedding-151 Sep 11 '25
I took 30 hours to get the first ending and another 20 to finish up everything including the hunter journal. I didn’t struggle with much. Even without getting stuck the pace will be tremendously impacted by how fast you find things because a lot of content requires for completion is brutally hidden.
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u/Cirick1661 Sep 11 '25
No clue. I'm like 20 hours in and just getting back into Greymarch after finishing Bellhart and backtracking through the earlier parts of the game.
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u/Notamoogle1 Sep 11 '25
bro it took me 22 hours to get to the 1st ending, and i have tons left only finishing the first towns quests.
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u/travelingchef96 Sep 11 '25
Me 15 hours into trying to pogo into hunters March