Fortnite Hollow Knight Bundle Costs More Than Hollow Knight and Silksong

Fortnite has brought Hollow Knight into its ever-expanding crossover universe, but the arithmetic around the collaboration is likely to make some fans pause before adding it to their locker. The full Hollow Knight bundle costs 2,000 V-Bucks, listed at $22.49 or £17.19.

That is more than the listed Steam price of Team Cherry’s original Hollow Knight: $14.99 or £12.79. It also edges above the stated $19.99 retail price of Hollow Knight: Silksong in dollars.

In other words, the price of one Fortnite cosmetic package is higher than buying either the original game at its cited store price or its sequel at its cited dollar price. That does not make the bundle unusual only because it is expensive; it makes it notable because the comparison is so clean. A digital collection of crossover items costs more than access to a complete game built around the character and world being celebrated.

What comes in the 2,000 V-Bucks package

The bundle contains three named items:

Hollow Knight as a sidekick
Hallownest Grub as a back bling
The Nail as a pickaxe

For players less familiar with Fortnite’s item language, a back bling is a cosmetic worn on a character’s back, while a pickaxe is the game’s harvesting-tool slot. The labels describe how the crossover is being translated into Fortnite rather than an expansion of Hollow Knight’s original Metroidvania gameplay. The package is about carrying recognizable Hallownest imagery into Fortnite matches.

The bench and the Shade also appear as part of the collaboration. Those references are particularly recognizable to Hollow Knight players: they connect the crossover to the visual identity of the original game rather than treating the Knight as a detached mascot. In Fortnite, though, the essential purchase decision remains straightforward: buyers are paying for themed digital cosmetics and companion-style presentation, not for Hollow Knight itself.

The price comparison is striking, but shoppers should read it precisely

The central comparison uses listed prices in the same currencies: $22.49 for 2,000 V-Bucks against Hollow Knight at $14.99 on Steam, and £17.19 against £12.79. In dollars, the Fortnite bundle is $7.50 more than the cited price of Hollow Knight. In pounds, it is £4.40 more.

Against Silksong’s cited $19.99 retail price, the bundle is $2.50 more. That is a less dramatic gap than the one with the original Hollow Knight, but the basic contrast remains: Fortnite’s themed add-on carries a higher price than a separate, full game purchase.

There is another practical wrinkle. Hollow Knight has been available for nine years and is frequently discounted, which means the gap can become wider during a sale. The cited Steam prices are the direct baseline here; sale pricing would make a time-sensitive comparison rather than a permanent one. Still, even the non-sale comparison tells the story without needing any extra calculation.

Why virtual-currency pricing can obscure the comparison

V-Bucks are Fortnite’s virtual currency. A price expressed as 2,000 V-Bucks can feel distinct from a conventional store price because players may have previously purchased currency, retained a balance, or bought a larger currency amount for other items. But the listed cash cost gives the bundle a real-world reference point: $22.49 or £17.19 for the cited quantity.

That distinction matters when evaluating crossover cosmetics. A V-Bucks total is not automatically comparable to a game’s cash price until the currency purchase cost is put beside it. Once it is, the Hollow Knight situation becomes unusually easy to explain. The Fortnite package costs more than the original Hollow Knight on Steam, while Silksong’s $19.99 price also sits below it.

This is not an argument that the items have no value to a particular player. Cosmetic value is personal: someone who plays Fortnite every week and wants a Hallownest-themed locker may reasonably care more about those objects than a separate purchase they do not expect to play. Conversely, a player interested primarily in discovering Hollow Knight can obtain the actual game for less at the stated Steam price. The important point is that these are different products serving different uses, even when they share a character, visual language and fandom.

A crossover built for Fortnitemares

The timing places Hollow Knight within Fortnite’s Fortnitemares Halloween theme. It joins a particularly eclectic group of horror-adjacent and pop-culture presences that includes Slender Man, Freddy Krueger and the Yautja from Predator, with Beetlejuice also on the way.

That context helps explain why the Knight, the Shade and the bench fit the moment aesthetically. Hollow Knight is not presented as a conventional horror game in this information, but its dark, insect-filled kingdom and ghostly imagery can sit naturally beside Fortnite’s Halloween programming. It also illustrates the increasingly surreal shorthand of Fortnite crossovers: characters and objects from very different game worlds and screen franchises can share the same competitive space.

Fortnite has recently incorporated Kingdom Hearts as well. The Hollow Knight addition extends that pattern of bringing established game properties into a live-service game where the crossover object is often a cosmetic identity rather than a new standalone adventure. For a broader look at how game companies are thinking about extending their worlds across formats and products, see Xbox’s XP division plans.

Availability is limited, while a return is uncertain

The Hollow Knight items are scheduled to remain in Fortnite’s shop until October 15. After that, the bundle will leave the shop, and there is no stated timetable for when it might return.

For prospective buyers, that makes the decision less about whether the price comparison is amusing—it plainly is—and more about what they actually want from the collaboration. The bundle is a limited-time Fortnite purchase containing a sidekick, a back bling and a pickaxe, with additional visual nods to Hollow Knight. It is not a discounted route into Hollow Knight, nor an alternative to Silksong.

The juxtaposition is nevertheless hard to ignore. A player can spend less on a complete Metroidvania than on the privilege of taking its hero, grub and weapon into Fortnite. In a game famous for putting wildly different fictional figures in the same match, the oddity is not that the Knight can coexist with Goku and Peter Griffin. It is that the Knight’s cosmetic Fortnite arrival has a higher listed cash cost than the game that made the character matter in the first place.