Sinner’s Road is one of the more dubious places in Hollow Knight Silksong. What really gives this place its challenge is the fact that the benches are very hard to find, and the one that is somewhat easy is also a mini game in of itself to activate. Here’s everything you need to know about the Sinner’s Road Benches in Hollow Knight Silksong

Note that we have a Interactive Map that should help you find the bench locations if you don’t mind seeing the full game map

• Sinner’s Road - East Bench -Map Marker
• Sinner’s Road - West Bench - Map Marker

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Here are the locations of both the Sinner’s Road Benches in Hollow Knight SIlksong. Image via Gamer Guides.

Sinner’s Road Bench - West¶

The first major bench you’ll find is towards the left side of the zone. Enter from the Greymoor region by parkouring up the left most tower and following the path along to Sinner’s Road.

1. Enter the zone, and proceed through the cage area as normal.
2. You should enter a room with the Green Prince in a cage directly above you.
3. Go up that pathway, and following the platforming left when you reach the top.
4. It will eventually lead you to a doorway that goes into a new room on the left. It’s locked so down a platform and hit the lever to open it
5. In this new room, you are introduced to a new mechanic, silk leeches. They will eat your skill if you fall into the murky waters. So avoid that if you can.
   • Gamer Guides suggest you heal up now just in case as you’ll need your health later for the upcoming puzzle. It’sd easy to die in there, and we dont facny you doing a Greymoor bench run near the Half Way Inn for this.
6. Aerial attack to bounce over the swinging blades, and then dash and hover over towards the platform. Activate the bench machine, and you can even speak to Shakra and buy the Sinner’s Road Map. The bench will cost 60 rosaries and the map 90.

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(1 of 4) Enter the main vertical room and procced up and left via the swinging blades and bird enemy platforms. Image via Gamer Guides / Team Cherry.

Now, this is where it gets interesting, as the bench will not work straight away.

1. To activate it, you now need to do the following.
2. Wall jump up towards the left corner of the room and attack the very top left. You should see part of the wall is slightly different to the rest of the wall.
3. This eventually break into a new hallway Enter and proceed.
4. Continue left and then fall down.
5. Try to time your falls with avoiding the pendulum blades and then proceed down to the bottom
6. Now you have more spike traps and swinging blades. Again, time your blade ariel attacks to then dash and do more attacks before landing on platforms.
7. You should eventually reach the bottom right of the area to break some plant roots. The plant roots prevent the bench from fully raising up.
8. After the plants are destroyed, the bench will work. Now proceed to wall jump out of there and destroy the floor board to escape.
9. Go right and you can now use the bench.

Second Sinner’s Road Bench¶

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Battle some rat baddies to get a new friend and a second Sinner’s Road bench to the far east of the zone. Image via Gamer Guides / Team Cherry.

Now, there is a second bench in Sinner’s Road, located to the far right of the zone.

1. To get this, you will need to exit the room you get the first bench and climb all the way up the main vertical room you enter.
2. From there, you go right, and drop down through the second vertical room. You then go right again, through an area littered with spike walls.
3. It will take you through cages, which you can enter by smashing the gates open
4. When you get to the end of that hallway, you should find two rat critters by a golden ray of light. Kill the two creatures, and an NPC called Styx will spawn.
5. He will then give you a bench to rest at.
6. After while you can leave the map via fast travel and come back later, and he will have a reward for you. It allows you to get your death silk cocoon back.

Also, it’s worth mentioning there is a shortcut back to Greymoor via the cage on the bottom level where the bench is. If you haven’t already got it, it takes you to an area where there is Spool part upgrade in the top left as you enter that part of Greymoor.

While we’re here, there’s a Simple Key located towards the top of the the Sinner’s Road vertical room where the east bench is closest too. It should help you reach that key with you now having a fairly close by bench to rest and respawn at.