The Hollow Knight: Silksong community has been ablaze in recent weeks with theories and rumours aplenty about when the hotly-anticipated sequel will finally release. While none are yet to come to fruition, Team Cherry has provided a tiny development update, just to reassure everyone that the game actually does exist and it "will release" one day.
Last week, Hollow Knight co-creator William Pellen updated his Twitter profile picture to an image of a cake. For most fan bases, this wouldn't be enough to bat an eyelid, but when you've been waiting this many years for news from Hallownest, every change matters. The TL;DR of it is that fans traced this image back to an online recipe dated to 2nd April (the day of the Switch 2 Direct), and made the logical leap that this will be a big day for Silksong news.
The theory was quickly debunked by YouTuber @fireb0rn, who reached out to Team Cherry's Matthew 'Leth' Griffin and found that the image change was a "nothingburger". But that didn't stop Griffin himself from chiming in, reconfirming that Silksong "is real, progressing and will release".
Before you say it, yes, that's it. After radio silence for what feels like an eternity, Team Cherry's development update is the reconfirmation that this damn game is actually happening. Great. It's hardly the most riveting news to drop out of the Silksong mines, but at least we know work is still progressing at the studio, and we will get to see the final product one day... we hope.
We're rapidly approaching six years since Silksong's announcement and while 2024 brought some excitement with its multiple listings appearing out of the blue, official news has continued to be ever-silent. Maybe 2025 will be the year, eh?
Do you think we'll see Silksong in 2025? Let us know in the comments.
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My guess is that they pushed it onto the Switch 2
It will come... someday.
Uhmm ok. Next.
So tired of waiting for this.
Watch it'll be 2026 and we still won't have a release date trailer for this game. lol
This is the GTA of the indies. Everybody is expecting the game to be perfect, better take enough time to develop than release it broken. It will sell crazy numbers anyway.
It's okay to anticipate a sequel to a favourite game, but I don't think it's really necessary to get quite as obsessive over it as I've seen from fans online...
If you're anything like a majority of gamers, you do have a massive backlog to be getting through, right? So I would recommend people to stop thinking about Hollow Knight so much until Silksong actually comes out, and instead focus on working through your other games. It'll come when it comes.
I believe that it’s still in development. I don’t believe it’ll ever release. There’ll always be more they want to add to it.
I just keep going back to Hollow Knight to hold me over. I hope these guys take all the time they need, even if it's on the Switch 3, I'm as impatient as the next guy but masterpieces can't be rushed.
I'm not yet prepared to believe that the April 2nd cake recipe was just a coincidence...
Silksong is coming. Soon. Ish.
@TomSupreme my thoughts exactly, will see 🙃
@TomSupreme This is my guess too. They’re definitely taking their time and polishing it, but I’d assume they want the game newly released on the first day/month of the Switch 2. We’ll have to wait and see tho.
They thought a whole Silksong ARG was going on?
Shows what radio silence on a hotly anticipated project will do to an audience, you know, like with the Switch 2.
I watched a YouTube video trying to explain why Silksong takes so long to be released. The main point is that they're really perfectionists. They had to release Hollow Knight before adding all the content they wanted simply because they had run out of money and could no longer work on it. Now money is no longer an issue thanks to the huge sells of HK, so now they can work on Silksong as long as they want to.
"The One Piece!
The One Piece is real!"
Again, compare this to the communication of Toby Fox, ConcernedApe etc. and you can see why many are dissatisfied with Team Cherry's.
That said, I'm so glad they've finally said anything at all and personally I'm still looking forward to Silksong whenever it comes out (although I should finally play Hollow Knight when I can first and foremost)!
@RupeeClock what does ARG mean? I looked it up and I can't imagine why would a picture of a cake would imply an alternate reality game... Pls explain, I am confusion!
Game will be ready when it’s ready and I don’t mind waiting for it but what’s with the messing around? Fans are obviously going to look into everything anyone related to the project puts out so why bother with cryptic tweets and changing profile pictures to things that invite speculation if they apparently mean nothing?
Like I said, I don’t mind waiting but it’s a bit unfair to play with people when they know their fans are so excited for the thing they’re making.
2036 LET'S GOOOOOOOO
@JohnnyMind you really should play Hollow Knight before you decide to buy SilkSong, the game isn't for everyone and can test the patience of even the most die hard Souls-like fan. If you can make your fingers do that "muscle memory" thing where you hardly even need to think about the controls then you'll have a whale of a time, I struggled with some of the late game bosses (and that's not even mentioning the post-game pantheons!) but my desire to see the multiple endings dragged me through eventually... even if not for that final best ending 😅
While these guys have really bungled their communication, it speaks to how special Hollow Knight was that people have remained invested in the sequel all this time.
@Otoemetry
ARG is short for Alternate Reality Games, which is a type of game in which an author might secretly set up a game by leaving clues for people to investigate.
They might do things like put cryptic esoteric information in overlooked or unexpected spots, or places that might need extra digging (like inside of the software files), and the community collaboratively or competitively tried to figure things out to lead to the next step in a puzzle that goes beyond your original video game. Aspects of Undertale fall into ARG territory because the author expects you to nose around and tinker, and dig around on official Undertale websites too.
The trouble with this though is that many ARGs don't advertise themselves as ARGs and leave it to the community to pick up on the hint.
As a result, you sometimes get circumstances where the community reads into something that was never there and goes on a fruitless endeavour to dig something up that wasn't ever buried, and this can extend to following individual developers and staff on social media channels hoping they give them something to chew on.
If it's a Switch 2 launch title then it's definitely a game I would look forward to.
Ender Lillies was a better game and that team seems capable of releasing a sequel in a "normal" amount of time.
Hollow Knight was an exemplary game, and Team Cherry can take as long as they need to cook up another such beauty. I actually really respect how these artists are taking their time and staying quiet in this age of entitlement and instant gratification.
At this point, I've honestly kinda fallen off of the hype cycle for this game. I'll absolutely be there day one, and I have no doubt Team Cherry is pouring everything they can into it. if it's anywhere near as good as OG Hollow Knight, we're in for something special. That said, at this point I've just sort of moved on. It'll happen when it happens, no real point in praying for it with every Direct. Besides, I've got a truckload of Metroidvanias I have yet to get to, like Ender Lillies, Iconoclasts, Ori, etc. Not to mention, the Switch 2 hype train is almost at the station. I think it's safe to say we'll have plenty of upcoming stuff to keep us happily occupied in the meantime!
@Otoemetry Yeah, I've heard stories about Hollow Knight's difficulty before and was going to give that a try before getting Silksong anyway also considering I already have it but still, thanks for the warning!
@JohnnyMind in my experience the game sinks its hooks into you way before the difficulty spikes so it's not like you're smashing yourself into the difficulty wall for no reason or anything, it truly is a wonderful game
@RupeeClock crikey that sounds like a nightmare! Thanks for explaining 🙂
Idc what team cherry says, the whole April 2nd thing is way too convincing. I'm thinking they broke a direct nda and they had to cover it up, but it will be there fs.
@JohnnyMind if you go for the normal ending it isn't too hard, some of the dlc/optional bosses/areas are very tricky. It just depends on how deep into hollownest you want to go. Just beating the game I think most people can do it.
@rvcolem1 Will try to go for at least the normal ending when I play it then, thanks for telling me!
See you in ten years, Silksong.
@FredsBodyDouble Counterpoint: Ender Lilies isn’t nearly as good as Hollow Knight. I mean it’s a very competently-made game; very polished. It’s good. Hollow Knight is leagues better. Better characters and story, more interesting environments, and cooler challenges and rewards. It’s not even close.
I’m probably alone but I don’t think I care about Silksong anymore. This May change when it’s actually released but my hype is gone.
I hope that’s not their only job. I can’t fathom how one game release can sustain three people’s yearly salaries for six years…
EDIT: Nevermind. According to just Steam sales it estimates “ $248,869,016.64”….and that’s JUST Steam sales. Crazy.
@Koffeeking0407 Yeah, they never have to actually finish and release Silksong if they don't want to. And they sure don't seem to want to.
Could it be that Nintendo has struck an exclusivity deal with Team Cherry? (timed exclusivity perhaps?) And that SilkSong would be a potential exclusive launch title for Switch2?
@FredsBodyDouble I played both. Both are fantastic, it's hard to choose which one is more brilliant
I will wait for you, shaaaaaw
@Archius9 you are not alone, I am here with you. Honestly I'll play it buy I am nowhere near as hyped as I would have been.
Feel like the only person on the planet who finds both Hollow Knight and Undertale alright. Not bad, not terrible, not mind blowingly good, not life changing amazing. Stands on the shoulders of giants from before and does okay with it. Good for a single playthrough maybe a replay many years later. If there's a sequel I might check it out.
As with waiting for the next Robert Caro book or MBV album, it will take as long as it takes, and that’s fine by me.
@Coalescence I think there’s a lot of better games in this genre so I get you! 🙈 I feel it’s one of the most overhyped games, but I’m happy for the devs and the fans!
@LastFootnote consider my mind blown. I have a software engineer background and it almost makes me wanna try my hand at creating a game but that kinda success is like capturing lighting in a bottle. If I were Team Cherry I’d be kinda weary of releasing a follow up to a game as successful as Hollow Knight.
I'm not going to deny, I still want the game to come out. But I'm no longer frustrated about the wait anymore, it's been to long and I've moved on to other things. Also, it's just the positivity of the Switch 2 because tons of good games and massive surprises are on the horizon. If Silksong is part of that party, great! If not, Team Cherry are among the losers.
Don’t these people have any games in their backlog to go through? Because apparently whenever there is a new Nintendo direct people complain that silksong isn’t in it.
I can already say Hollow Knight Silksong is honestly THE definitive title for Switch 2 this year... amirite NL?
For some reason Hollow Knight didn't really click with me, but I really think the developers here are in a Duke Nukem Forever type of situation. They should've announced the game was coming at a later stage and they definitely shouldn't have made any promises they couldn't keep. At this point the chance of the game being worse than its predecessor increases at a staggering rate, because people have too high expectations of how good the game should be. And this rarely leads to good results.
That's cool for HK fans. It's going to be a banger of a game, and I'm never going to play it.
At least it's something.
YMMV.
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