diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/issue-2537 b/changelog/unreleased/issue-2537
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e639d552
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/issue-2537
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Bugfix: Fix incorrect file counts in `stats --mode restore-size` 
+
+The restore-size mode of stats was failing to count empty directories and some files with hard links.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2537
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go
index a202fd029..5306082bf 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go
@@ -247,8 +247,13 @@ func statsWalkTree(repo restic.Repository, stats *statsContainer) walker.WalkFun
 			// as this is a file in the snapshot, we can simply count its
 			// size without worrying about uniqueness, since duplicate files
 			// will still be restored
-			stats.TotalSize += node.Size
 			stats.TotalFileCount++
+
+			// TODO - Issue #2531 Handle hard links by identifying duplicate inodes.
+			// (Duplicates should appear in the file count, but not the size count)
+			stats.TotalSize += node.Size
+
+			return false, nil
 		}
 
 		return true, nil