Get ready, folks, because Team Cherry, those mythical beings who’ve been promising us Hollow Knight: Silksong since the dawn of time, have FINALLY emerged from their development caves! 🗣️ After six years of total silence (except for the occasional “it’s still coming” tweet to keep the masses from outright rebellion), they’ve graced us with a release date. Mark your calendars, because September 4th is the day we find out if this game is actually real or just a collective fever dream.
After six long years of development, more details surrounding Hollow Knight: Silksong have been revealed in 2025 than in all of its other years in development combined. During today’s special program announcement, Team Cherry has finally revealed when fans will be able to play Silksong, and it’s likely much closer than imagined. The release date trailer can be seen below. Watch it, cherish it, because it might be the only concrete thing we get before the game inevitably gets delayed again. 🤡
Back in 2022, the Xbox Games Showcase re-revealed Hollow Knight: Silksong after Team Cherry went pretty much radio silent after the title’s announcement, which continued interest in the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Hollow Knight release. While Team Cherry’s communication has been basically ‘it’s still coming, we mean it’ for all of the years of development leading up to gamescom 2025 (where fans have been able to play), this is the first time they’ve stapled a concrete release date to the upcoming title. Co-Founder of Team Cherry, Ari Gibson, told Bloomberg, “It was always progressing. It’s just the case that we’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.” Oh, Ari, you sweet summer child. “No controversial moment?” Tell that to the legions of fans who’ve aged approximately 30 years while waiting! 😂
Revealed in the trailer, fans will be able to explore much of what they would expect in Silksong. This time around, fans step behind the guise of the fan-favourite NPC from the original title, Hornet, and players will have a whole new kingdom to explore, 150 new beasties to defeat, and a new crushing difficulty game mode. Hornet is also much more agile than the protagonist of the original Hollow Knight, and she’s able to deploy her Needle weapon to flit around the setting with the same finesse as her appearance in the 2017 original. So, basically, it’s Hollow Knight but with a sassy, pointy spider. What’s not to love? (Besides the wait, the existential dread, and the crippling fear that it will never actually come out). 😨
Hollow Knight: Silksong will launch on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series S/X, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on September 4, and it will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass. Yes, you read that right, it’s launching on the Nintendo Switch 2! Which means you’ll have to buy a whole new console just to play it. Genius move, Team Cherry, genius. 😈 Oh, and it’s on Game Pass too, so you can experience the crushing disappointment for the price of a subscription. Enjoy! 🤪
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