The scored reviews are starting to come in for Silksong about 4-5 days after its September 4 release. With no early copies going out to critics, everyone needed to (or should have) waited a while before publishing. This is…I’ll say long enough, sure. By this point we don’t know how intensely these early reviewers have binged, so I won’t judge.
While Metacritic has not handed out a score yet, OpenCritic is currently tracking one, and as it stands, Silksong has a stunning 98 there, dipping down from a perfect 100 which I saw last night.
The catch here is that this is only based on 10 reviews. The 98 dip is because of a new Noisy Pixel review that gave it a 9/10. How dare they! Over on Metacritic, despite no listed score yet, all reviews are 10/10 minutes an Xbox Series X one from GamersRD that’s an 8.5 and a Switch 2 one from Power Unlimited that’s a 9.5. But we have many, many reviews yet to come, and most of these are likely to be unscored from more major outlets until the game is more fully exhausted by those reviewers.
Hollow Knight Silksong
Hollow Knight Silksong
What are some of these early reviews saying?
Screenrant (10/10): “Hollow Knight: Silksong has a long road ahead of it, and I’m ready to follow it on its entire journey. Whether that includes a swath of free updates just like the original game, or potential DLC, I’ll be there. In fact, I’m still there, slowly chipping away at a 100% completion rate. I won’t be putting this one down for weeks.”
CGMagazine (10/10): “Hollow Knight: Silksong takes the masterclass design of its predecessor and elevates it to set a new gold standard in Metroid-like design.”
Game 8 (98/100): “Silksong took everything that made Hollow Knight memorable and made it even better. It’s a faster and more demanding experience that somehow feels natural for Hornet’s journey. Pharloom is a labyrinth of beauty and menace, each corner stuffed with secrets that make getting lost feel like part of the design.”
Silksong, perhaps expectedly, has thrown a grenade into the GOTY race, which was already crowded with the likes of Blue Prince, Death Stranding 2, Donkey Kong Bananza, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Split/Fiction and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Expedition 33 seemed like the frontrunner, but seven years of waiting for Silksong resulting in an amazing product may do the impossible and take the crown this year. That said, we all win given the sheer amount of incredible games out in 2025.
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