Games like Hollow Knight: Silksong
If Hollow Knight: Silksong is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hollow Knight, Nine Sols and MIO: Memories in Orbit — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and epic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Hollow Knight: Silksong is a Metroidvania sequel from Team Cherry set in a vast haunted kingdom. Players control Hornet through an interconnected world, engaging with fast-paced combat, movement-techniques, and platforming-parkour. The mechanics include ability-combos, build-variety through crests and tools, and consequence-based-choices that reviewers note subtly shape the world. Players describe the atmosphere as immersive and contemplative, with the world feeling alive during exploration. The combat feels more dynamic than the original installment, and movement mastery provides uniquely rewarding moments. The game released in 2025 at $19.99 USD, spans a massive length, and carries a hard difficulty rating. It holds a 93% positive score from 139,225 Steam reviews and is verified on Steam Deck.
About Hollow Knight: Silksong: Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Players who liked Hollow Knight: Silksong also play
Steam players who put hours into Hollow Knight: Silksong also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Top pick for Hollow Knight: Silksong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hollow Knight: Silksong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Third-strongest match for Hollow Knight: Silksong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Rebel Transmute
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Ranked #4 for Hollow Knight: Silksong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Ranked #5 for Hollow Knight: Silksong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Ranked #6 for Hollow Knight: Silksong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
In a bizarre universe where the oppressed are on the brink of oblivion, Dandara has awoken to reshape the world.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Ranked #7 for Hollow Knight: Silksong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Ranked #8 for Hollow Knight: Silksong fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
"Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Hollow Knight: Silksong
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Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight: Silksong cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Hyper Light Drifter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight: Silksong cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hollow Knight: Silksong cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hollow Knight: Silksong cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares build variety and an epic mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight: Silksong cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hollow Knight: Silksong cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
The Messenger
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hollow Knight: Silksong cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight: Silksong cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hollow Knight: Silksong at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Hollow Knight: Silksong on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hollow Knight: Silksong on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hollow Knight: Silksong on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hollow Knight: Silksong on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hollow Knight: Silksong on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Rebel Transmute
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
In a bizarre universe where the oppressed are on the brink of oblivion, Dandara has awoken to reshape the world.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight: Silksong.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Frequently asked about Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Is Hollow Knight: Silksong verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hollow Knight: Silksong is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Hollow Knight: Silksong cost?
- Hollow Knight: Silksong is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hollow Knight: Silksong?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hollow Knight: Silksong are Hollow Knight, Nine Sols, MIO: Memories in Orbit.
- Who developed Hollow Knight: Silksong?
- Hollow Knight: Silksong was developed by Team Cherry.
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