Early reviews put Hollow Knight: Silksong as the joint-highest rated game of 2025

In order to fulfill its early Kickstarter promises, Team Cherry opted not to give out early review codes for Hollow Knight: Silksong. Given its ambitious scope, it’s taken some time for critics to get through the long-awaited sequel. With early reviews finally trickling out, Hollow Knight: Silksong is now currently sat at the top of 2025’s highest rated games – right alongside Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

With a Metacritic score of 93, Hollow Knight: Silksong is currently tied for first place as the highest rated game of 2025 alongside Josef Fares Split Fiction and the hit RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

It is worth noting that Split Fiction and Clair Obscur both feature far more critic reviews than Silksong, with the three titles sitting at 110, 83 and 17 reviews respectively. As mentioned however, this is due to reviewers not receiving codes for Silksong early – and so as additional reviews pile in we should get a more complete picture of the consensus.

That said, user reviews for the game tell a similar story, albeit at a grander scale, with Silksong currently resting at 9.1/10 on Metacritic based on almost 3,000 reviews. In a similar vein, Silksong’s score on Steam is equally high with a 91% very positive rating across 56,000 English reviews.

Of course, regardless of its final score, Hollow Knight: Silksong is already one of the most successful games of 2025, with its launch breaking pretty much every digital platform while going on to surpass 500,000 concurrent players on Steam alone during its first 24 hours. It looks like we might have another Game of the Year contender on our hands.

KitGuru says: What do you think of Silksong so far? Is it your GOTY? What would you score the game? Let us know down below.

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