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Hollow Knight vs Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Reviews on Steam

Hollow Knight

3.6× more reviews

Critical reception

Hollow Knight

0.4pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Hollow Knight

$15.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Hollow Knight

4.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

3 years apart

A

Hollow Knight

2017 · Action

Team Cherry · Team Cherry

Reviews
487,212
Positive
97%
Launch price
$14.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
43.8M
Net rev
$375.4M
B

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

2020 · Action

Moon Studios GmbH · Xbox Game Studios

Reviews
134,118
Positive
97%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
10.7M
Net rev
$183.8M

Tag overlap

75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on Hollow Knight, 5 only on Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

Only Hollow Knight

Hand-drawnMultiple EndingsDark FantasyControllerSide Scroller

Shared

MetroidvaniaSouls-likePlatformerGreat Soundtrack2DDifficultIndieSingleplayerAtmosphericExplorationAdventureStory RichActionOpen WorldCute

Only Ori and the Will of the Wisps

BeautifulAction-AdventurePuzzleEmotionalFantasy

Sales estimates

Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.

Sales estimate

vv1.0

26.3M to 61.4M

units (median: 43.8M)

≈ $225.3M to $525.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

26.3Mmedian61.4M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

6.4M to 15.0M

units (median: 10.7M)

≈ $110.3M to $257.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

6.4Mmedian15.0M

How comparison pages work

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