Overview

• Silksong’s overall Steam reception remains largely positive, but filtering for Simplified Chinese now shows a Mostly Negative rating.
• Team Cherry’s publishing lead Matthew Griffin acknowledged the quality problems and said the team will work on improvements over the coming weeks.
• GamesRadar+ reports roughly 14,000 negative reviews in Simplified Chinese, a disproportionate share of the game’s total negative feedback.
• Translation analysts, including Loek van Kooten, describe the Chinese script as overly archaic and stylistically misdirected, making quest hints hard to parse.
• Coverage notes the sequel credits only two people for Chinese localization versus six on the original, prompting questions about resourcing and oversight.