Despite bringing Steam to its knees, Silksong attracted more day one players than the Battlefield 6 open beta

• Hollow Knight: Silksong has been a huge Steam success on day one
• Demand for the game slowed the PC storefront to a crawl
• After a day, its peak concurrent player count sits at over half a million

Now that Hollow Knight: Silksong is out, it's been impossible to contain the hype and demand for the long-awaited game.

As we mentioned in our Silksong live coverage blog, console and PC storefronts - including Steam, Nintendo eShop, and the PlayStation Store - could not bear the brunt of hundreds of thousands of players descending upon them like a plague of gaming locusts.

Steam was especially hit hard, with users running into a litany of issues. These included (but were not limited to) Silksong's store page not loading, users being unable to add the game to cart, and multiple instances of the game being added to cart, likely as ...