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Hollow Knight: Silksong to tone down difficulty amid player outcry

Grant St. Clair
Sep 10, 2025
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Hollow Knight: Silksong. Image via Team Cherry

"Git gud" has been the pushback against gamers complaining about difficulty since the release of the first Dark Souls, but it shoves aside a very real conversation about accessibility in games and how difficulty factors into that. Hollow Knight: Silksong is one of the most popular indie games in recent memory

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