It's no surprise that Silksong of all games has brought down all of the gaming digital storefronts. The game started its life as DLC for Hollow Knight back in 2018, before being transitioned to a full standalone sequel in 2019 and being in development since then.

An influx of players excited for this morning's launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong are encountering widespread errors purchasing and downloading the game from Steam this morning. Ars Technica writers have encountered errors getting store pages to load,

One of the most hyped video games in years finally came out on Thursday morning, and the most popular digital storefronts couldn't handle it at all. I'm talking, of course, about Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Multiple social media users and data from services like DownDetector are noting that the service is down for many people, with a massive spike in reports pretty much the moment Silksong became available.

Silksong is releasing today, September 4, but the rollout hasn't gone entirely smoothly right out of the gate. People are reporting issues on Steam, with players saying they cannot launch the game or even add it to their cart.

Silksong finally launches after six years of anticipation, debuting to huge fanfare and a surge of concurrent players on release day.

Steam servers seem to have gone down, or at least gone to hell, the very second that Hollow Knight: Silksong was finally released, and it looks like the Switch eShop followed them into the abyss. Internet hounds like Steam Status and Down Detector indicate problems with the Steam Store at the time of writing.