Playable Vessel (play as the Hollow Knight)
A Hollow Knight mod that lets the Knight use the Hollow Knight or Pure Vessel moveset.
Price not confirmed
Warnings and review limits
- Hollow Knight 1.5.78 and the Modding API are required. README says game content belongs to Team Cherry and the source code is MIT-licensed.
- The GitHub release tag is PlayableBoss; the artifact filename identifies mod version 0.5.0.
- Static review of exact release only. No installation or in-game compatibility testing. No guarantee of absence of vulnerabilities.
What changes in Hollow Knight?
Adds two selectable movesets with their attacks, animations, sprites, sounds and effects mapped to the Knight’s controls.
From the creator
Modalicous718 (official GitHub account; display name not independently verified) ↗AI-assisted: this mod was designed and written with Claude Code (Anthropic's Claude, Opus) working with the mod's creator, who tested every build in game.
Creator states AI assisted this mod.
Community responses
Positive comments and independent successful-use reports have not been confirmed. Read the original discussion for current replies.
No independent successful-use report was captured in the reviewed run receipts. This review did not install, launch, or play the mod; runtime compatibility is not established.
Getting started
Install through Lumafly, or import the official manual-install ZIP. For manual setup, install the Modding API if needed and place the PlayableVessel folder in the game’s Managed/Mods directory. Official README: https://github.com/Modalicous718/PlayableVessel/blob/954d892fcd0927a3c5a790a92c367a8bcd22d176/README.md
Official mod page ↗