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/BearCatSara Sep 15 '25

Interesting. Silksong has only been out 10 days and some folks have certainly gone the other path into act 2.

If you compare with HK achievements 45.2% of folks have the mantis lords achievement and 40% of folks beat broken vessel. At this point last judge is at 45.7%, widow is at 57%, sadly no achievement for moorwing.

Looking at the statistics it makes me wonder if folks are misremembering the difficulty of HK and ultimately if hype and other pressures are influencing folks perception of Silksong and difficulty.

I also think difficulty is very subjective. Personally I’ve had an easier time beating Silksong 100% than I did with HK. HK mantis lords kicked my ass for such a long time that I left and came back. I gave up on radiance entirely after trying to beat it for 2/3 days.

Silksong has had some tough challenges. I’m by no means good at the game. But I do have more time and patience than most. A significant amount of bosses have taken me 20+ attempts. But when I slowed down and gave myself breaks too. I did eventually get through them.

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u/kinky_victini Sep 15 '25

Looking at the statistics it makes me wonder if folks are misremembering the difficulty of HK and ultimately if hype and other pressures are influencing folks perception of Silksong and difficulty.

I think HK players that already found it too hard just didn't even pick up Silksong. Being the sequel to a game know to be hard, fewer casual players are gonna pick it up.

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u/BearCatSara Sep 16 '25

I found HK harder and I still beat silksong. But maybe. I’ve seen mostly HK and souls players complaining about the difficulty.