My apologies then, sorry about the assumption…
Many people, myself included, think that Silksong is not balanced as well as it could be.
Anyway, yes there are quite a few mods that I’ve found so far. Balancing out some of the more egregious design choices, and adding some general quality of life changes and time savers makes this game so much more enjoyable in my opinion. The challenge is still there, the game just feels much less like it’s trying to force you to be a masochist.
Also, there are purely cosmetic mods as well for people who just enjoy a different look.
Yes, there is actually quite a few so far! Check out https://thunderstore.io/c/hollow-knight-silksong/?ordering=top-rated
There is another popular mod hosting website too, which may have more options to choose from, but I hesitate to recommend it due to the general controversy I’ve seen as of late.


Silksong makes me want to cry sad tears of defeat.
It’s so melancholy and difficult sometimes. Yeah, there’s the whole ‘get good’ argument, but there’s a lot of arguably unnecessary tedium involved that starts to feel like difficulty just for the sake of being difficult and nothing else. That’s definitely been a bit of a detractor for me, as well as a lot of others it seems.
Gamenative is pretty awesome, and works great for a lot of games. Also, consider referencing/contributing to Emuready https://www.emuready.com/ as well!
I tried using the winlator cmod and it would not register controller input for me. This is the video I was referencing: https://youtu.be/fr9N8lHzU1U

Interesting take. I think difficulty wise, you’re probably right. I don’t have a whole lot of experience with the Ninja Gaiden series, but I know they’re notoriously difficult. The reason I wasn’t really into it was because of the way it controlled. Locked attack directions, enemy movements, etc. Everything about the movement felt very old school to me, and I just wasn’t into it.
How about Spindle?
Also, girl from Arkanya.
I may have some more that fit too, I’ll have to search later 👍