Hollow Knight is a metroidvania style game that takes place in the ruined bug kingdom of Hallownest.

This is the first game by the Australian independent studio Team Cherry, but it feels like these guys have been making games for years. Alongside all these huge titles it may seem strange, but the biggest surprise of this year was the indie game Hollow Knight. Only 5 months in and we already have: Resident Evil 7, Yakuza 0, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nioh, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, NieR: Automata, Prey, and Persona 5. There have been many large releases that saw massive success and critical acclaim. In April, Yacht Club Games said that the Switch version of Shovel Knight was making more money than any other platform.This year has been great for video game lovers. Hollow Knight is also more proof that Nintendo Switch can be a very lucrative platform for games that have already been on the market for months, and even years. With another seven months of sales on PC and Mac, and the 250,000 copies sold in Switch, Team Cherry's debut game may well have exceeded one million sales. In November 2017, for example, an Nvidia blog post revealed that Hollow Knight had sold more than 500,000 units.

However, it launched for PC in February 2017, and it had a great deal of commercial momentum by the time it reached Nintendo's platform. Hollow Knight launched for Switch on June 12. The Australian developer disclosed that figure to IGN after Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime praised how well the game was selling in another interview. Team Cherry's Hollow Knight has sold more than 250,000 units on Nintendo Switch, in less than two weeks since it launched.

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