Greed is good… Well, at least in this case. After you meet him in the Forgotten Crossroads, head back up to Dirtmouth and buy this charm from Iselda in the map shop for 220 geo. You can technically get the Wayward Compass as soon as you meet Cornifer, if you have the geo. To quote the ingame description, the Wayward Compass “whispers its location to the bearer whenever a map is open.” In game play, this translates into showing your location on the map (which is so helpful, we’re not going to question how an inanimate object “whispers.”) So to help you on your dangerous cave diving, here’s a list of the 10 Best Charms in Hollow Knight. Therefore, your charm build will depend on your play style, but there are definitely some charms that are more useful than others. These magic badges offer various powers, buffs, and occasionally nerfs to customize the game for each player.
As such, anything to give you an advantage in this bug eat bug world is welcomed. And while you may cross the occasional friendly NPC in the depths, you spend most of your time killing anything near you or getting killed by it. Hollow Knight is a labyrinthian maze of a game where everything is trying to kill you.
