Silksong: 500k+ players in the first hours and the fall of windows — Analysis of the XRUST launch

four hours after the release-and the world of dungeons is buzzing like a hive: Hollow Knight: Silksong Top-posters of Steam, transplanting at 500,000 simultaneous players and looking into the historical table Records. This happened rapidly, almost without preludes — like a hornet attack, only through living servers. At the peak of demand, the site rained up by mistakes: Steam, Eshop, PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store wheezed from the influx — and did not survive immediately.
At Xrust.ru, we call this “the effect of the resonance of expectations”: seven years of whisper — and one loud click of launch. And the numbers, it seems, have not yet said the last word.

Xrust Silksong: 500K+ players in the first hours and the fall of windows — the analysis of the XRUST launch