Hollow Knight Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-24
- Exceptional boss fight design
- Outstanding soundtrack and music
- Engaging and well-crafted story
- Beautiful visuals and art direction
- Poor navigation and unclear direction
- Extreme difficulty causes frustration
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 566,231
- Positive
- 548,74196.9%
- Negative
- 17,4903.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 43,165,572
- Estimated revenue
- $647,051,924
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3040.35%
- Estimated copies lost
- 23,175
- Estimated revenue lost
- $347,393
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3050.4% Avg playtime 0.9h | 5820.7% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 2,9383.4% Avg playtime 51.8h | 82,10595.5% Avg playtime 83.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 235.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 148.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 18,278.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 365 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
85,930 total
Organic purchasers78,07990.9%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations7,8519.14%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
85,930 total
First impression0-2h1,6011.86%
Voted up: 78%
Mid game2-10h16,31019.0%
Voted up: 94%
Late game10-20h11,32613.2%
Voted up: 95%
Endgame20h+56,69366.0%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
91.7%
Global baseline 96.2%
1,301 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 566,231 total.