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You Can Now Play Hollow Knight And Silksong Simultaneously, If You’re A Masochist

On Sep 20, 2025 10:24 pm, by NuclearCoffee

If you’ve missed the discourse, Hollow Knight: Silksong is a difficult game. Talk of its difficulty has dominated gaming social spaces for the last fortnight, with some adamant that the game is too hard for its own good. This has ultimately led the game to be bombarded with negative reviews on platforms like Steam, with Silksong now receiving triple the number of said negative reviews when compared to its predecessor, Hollow Knight. There are, of course, large portions of the audience who are okay with the challenge, seeing it as part of the series’ DNA, but that hasn’t stopped frustrations.

For every complainer, there does seem to be a Silksong masochist. Within less than a week, players began to achieve the game’s extremely difficult platinum trophy, and the game is being beaten in around an hour by speed runners.

Now, for those players who fancy an even more difficult challenge, players have smashed Hollow Knight and Silksong together, devising a way to play both games at the same time.

Make Silksong Even Harder By Playing Hollow Knight Alongside It

A new mod, created by TheWackyKnight on Nexus Mods brings Team Cherry’s two indie classics together in a daunting gauntlet. Starting in one game, you play through until you die, and then the mod will throw you into the next. Die in that one, and you’ll seamlessly be thrown back to the original.

The challenge comes from The Knight and Hornet’s differing moveset and skills. Just as you may have become used to one, you’ll die, and have to use a character who plays and feels completely different. Undoubtedly, you’ll try to pogo with Hornet after the switch, or sprint across the map with The Knight, only to find that those particular nuances don’t work with those characters.

The difficulty doesn’t stop there, either: if you want to take things one step further, you can set the games to switch upon receiving damage, really keeping you on your toes.