Overview

• Steam’s Simplified Chinese reviews show about 38% positive from nearly 32,000 entries, contrasting with roughly 78–80% positive overall worldwide.
• Coverage reports over 14,000 negative reviews in Simplified Chinese, including PC Gamer’s count of about 11,800 of roughly 16,000 global negatives coming from that language.
• Marketing and publishing lead Matthew Griffin acknowledged the quality problems and said the team will work to improve the translation over the coming weeks.
• Localization experts and veteran translators describe the current Chinese text as fake‑archaic or Wuxia‑like, with passages that read as gibberish and obscure dialogue and quest hints.
• Silksong credits two people for its Chinese localization versus six on the original Hollow Knight, a disparity repeatedly noted in reports.