United Kingdom, Sept. 7 -- Hollow Knight: Silksong has caused chaos online as the release of one of the year's most anticipated video games brought down major digital stores worldwide.

When the sequel to the hit indie title went live late last week, thousands of players reported being unable to buy it on Steam, the world's largest PC game store.

Errors persisted for hours into the release time, while fans also experienced problems on Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox platforms.

Christopher Larkin, who composed the soundtrack for both Hollow Knight titles, joked on X the launch may have "crashed the Internet".

Reports on outage-tracking service Downdetector peaked at 3,750 as frustrated fans struggled to access the game.

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