Team Cherry broadcast a special program for the upcoming title, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and it finally has a release date, and it’s right around the corner.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
