Chinese-speaking Silksong players are calling out the game's lackluster translation, and Team Cherry has promised improvements

Date:
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:10:19 +0000

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Silksong players in China aren't happy about the game's translation, but Team Cherry promises improvements 'over the coming weeks'.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Chinese- speaking Silksong players have expressed frustration with the game's translation To some, it "reads like a Wuxia novel" instead of conveying the game's themes Developer Team Cherry has promised improvements "over the
coming weeks"

Reviews and reception for Hollow Knight: Silksong have been largely positive since its September 4 release, and despite some issues with its difficulty , that hasn't stopped well over half a million players checking out the game on Steam alone .

That being said, Chinese-speaking players have been expressing
dissatisfaction at Silksong's Simplified Chinese translation. As reported by Eurogamer , players have taken to social media to provide feedback on the translation, with one user stating it "reads like a Wuxia novel instead of conveying the games tone. This isnt about effort, but about taste and direction, and speaking from experience likely cant be fixed without
replacing the translator."

When filtering Steam reviews to those who played the game in Simplified Chinese, Silksong holds a 'Mixed' rating with only around 44% of those
reviews being positive. Clearly there's some work to be done.

To that end, marketing and publishing head for Silksong, Matthew Griffin,
took to X / Twitter to respond to criticism from Chinese-speaking players.

"To our Chinese speaking fans," Griffin wrote, "We appreciate you letting us know about quality issues with the current Simplified Chinese translation of Hollow Knight: Silksong . We'll be working to improve the translation over
the coming weeks. Thanks for your feedback and support."

We currently don't know when these improvements will take effect in the game, but hopefully, Chinese-speaking players won't have to wait too long for a higher-quality translation. You might also like... Thinking of streaming your PC gaming? Nvidia's GeForce Now is about to get more tempting as RTX 5080 GPU powers up top-tier plan Steam goes down, and Nintendo eShop and PS Store instantly crash under Hollow Knight: Silksong demand as the long-awaited game finally launches Own a PlayStation Link gaming headset adapter? It just got a huge firmware update that adds PC compatibility



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