Hollow Knight
2017 · Team Cherry · ~30h to finish
Steady, honest pressure plus a map that makes you earn the right to know where you are standing.
Real resistance. Expect to work for it.
Price on Steam
USD · United States · checked 2h ago
The fingerprint
- Assist options shave roughly 0.3 points off, if you use them.
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IGDBWhere it bites
SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT- 20% · ~4hReaction
the duel a few hours in that decides whether this game is for you
▲ 9 - 40% · ~9hExecution
the optional three-boss arena that is also the best fight in the game
▲ 30 - 50% · ~13hPunishment
the mid-game boss with an unusually long walk back to it
▲ 3 - 100% · ~40hExecution
the optional platforming corridor built purely to end you
▲ 37
Assists & accessibility
0/1 SOURCEDMOTOR & INPUT
- Fully remappable controls [unsourced]
Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.
What it is
A hand-drawn metroidvania set in a ruined insect kingdom, with a charm-based build system, a huge interconnected map and a large roster of optional bosses.
Where to go from here
Argue with these asksThe same shape with the volume down, for when that one took it out of you.
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