Can I Run Hollow Knight: Silksong?
Hollow Knight: Silksong is an action adventure game from Team Cherry, released in 2025. Team Cherry both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. This is current generation software, and the requirements read that way. Over 380 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS and Linux. Its Metacritic score stands at 90. Steam lists support for 11 languages. It carries 52 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3-3240, AMD FX-4300 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1GB), Radeon HD 7750 (1GB) |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 version 21H1 (build 19043) or newer |
| DirectX | 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3470 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1050 (2GB), Radeon R9 380 (2GB) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 version 21H1 (build 19043) or newer |
| DirectX | 10 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a gentle, brightly drawn world, moving through an interconnected map that opens up as you gain abilities. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments. The view is in two dimensions.
Why Hollow Knight: Silksong is demanding
The graphics requirement for Hollow Knight: Silksong is light. Hardware around GeForce GTX 1050 ( is enough, so Hollow Knight: Silksong runs on machines never bought for gaming. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. Disk footprint is light, near 8 GB. At 2 GB, VRAM is a non issue for Hollow Knight: Silksong. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 10.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Hollow Knight: Silksong?
Hollow Knight: Silksong targets a mainstream modern PC: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1GB), Radeon HD 7750 (1GB) and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to GeForce GTX 1050 (2GB), Radeon R9 380 (2GB) for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 3.27x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 1.84x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.82x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Hollow Knight: Silksong's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Can my PC run Hollow Knight: Silksong?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Hollow Knight: Silksong?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3-3240, AMD FX-4300; GPU: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1GB), Radeon HD 7750 (1GB); 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (build 19043) or newer.
How much storage does Hollow Knight: Silksong need?
Hollow Knight: Silksong needs about 8 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Hollow Knight: Silksong?
The RTX 3060 runs Hollow Knight: Silksong comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Hollow Knight: Silksong?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Hollow Knight: Silksong is the GPU.