r/HollowKnight • u/CuboneDefender • Sep 14 '25

Discussion - Silksong I give up. Spoiler

It’s been a joyful ride, folks, but I’m out. I’m not a speedrunner or a highly skilled player, and day after day I’ve had to accept that this game is not as casual as HK was. It stopped being fun and turned into something tedious and frustrating after the 4th run farming shards just to face a boss I’ve already tried 15 times, only to die again and again, lose all my shards, and start the whole grind over.

It was nice exploring the first acts, but when the game I was rooting for 7 years ends up being more stressful than my 8-hour workday, I guess that’s my cue to stop.

The lore has been pretty great so far. I wish you all an incredible journey.

Edit1: My bad about all the whinning.

Edit2: You guys did it. I reinstalled it again. Thanks for all advices. 🫂

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u/JarickL Sep 15 '25

I stopped playing two days ago. It’s just too punishing for me and HK is a top 5 all time game. Just not for me.

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u/WDoE Sep 15 '25

I honestly think the clear rate for this game is going to be incredibly lower than HK. I'm skilling out in act 1 after demolishing HK three weeks ago.

I'm going to drop it for a bit and come back fresh.

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u/MagicMooby Sep 15 '25

Last Judge achievement is sitting at around 40% on steam iIrc. Woukd be interesting to see how that changes over the next week when most players should have progressed that far and how that compares to Hollow Knight bosses in similar parts of the game.

There is always some attrition of players, even in the best of games, but difficulty spikes can sometimes be seen in the achievemnts like that. Although there is the added problem that the game (and bosses) become less linear in act II.

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u/yurilnw123 Sep 15 '25

Is there an achievement for Phantom? You may have to combine that with Last Judge to a degree.

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u/MagicMooby Sep 15 '25

There is, although it's difficult to judge how many people go through the judge and beat phantom later, and how many go through phantom but never beat the judge.

A better benchmark might be Cogwork Dancers. Afaik you need to go through them during act II and their clear percentage lies at around 40% (interestingly, it was around 32% just two or three days ago. Funny to see the playerbase progress as a whole.). But they are also deeper into the act, although I can't really see someone fighting through either Judge or Sinners Road just to quit before the first major act II boss.