Hollow Knight Has Sold Over 15 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 August 2025 / 16,711 Views
Team Cherry has told Bloomberg the Metroidvania game, Hollow Knight, has sold over 15 million units.
"As of today, the game has sold 15 million copies, Team Cherry told me, making it one of the most successful independent video games ever," reads the article from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.
Hollow Knight released for PC in February 2017, for the Nintendo Switch in June 2018, and for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in September 2018.
It was announced today that the sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, will launch on September 4 for the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC via Steam, GOG, and Humble Store, and Xbox Game Pass.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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We're getting Silksong before GTA6.
Great sales. Especially for a genre that is relatively niche.
Wonderful, this game is incredible!
Didn't deserve those sales, played then quit 2 minutes later, my God the amount of stupid and annoying screen shake gimmick is fooking dumb!! Is the idiot developer trying to give us headache or something??
And no there's no option to turn off that bullshit
