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Hollow Knight: Silksong

A 2025 Metroidvania sequel starring Hornet in the kingdom of Pharloom.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is a 2D platforming and combat game that plays similarly to its predecessor Hollow Knight.[1] By the middle of December 2025, over seven million copies of the game had been sold.[2]

Key facts and history

Hollow Knight: Silksong originated from a Kickstarter stretch goal met during Hollow Knight's 2014 campaign, initially planned as downloadable content.[3] The game was primarily developed by Team Cherry's three members: Ari Gibson, William Pellen, and Jasmine Vine.[4] A new action-focused trailer was showcased at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase in June 2022, revealing the game would be released on Xbox Game Pass at launch.[5] On 10 May 2023, Griffin declared that Silksong was delayed, explaining that they "had planned to release in the first half of 2023"[6]

The game's release trailer on 21 August 2025 revealed the 4 September 2025 release date.[7] Around 2017, Team Cherry concluded that the DLC had become "too large and too unique to stay a DLC", so they chose to develop it as a separate game.[3] Christopher Larkin was again responsible for composing the soundtrack.[4] At the Nintendo Direct for the Nintendo Switch 2 on 2 April 2025, a 2025 release date was given for Silksong.[8]

The first free DLC, named Sea of Sorrow, was revealed on 15 December 2025, with a planned release in 2026.[9]

What the cited sources add

Bedingfield also notes the game's "extraordinarily generous pricing" of £17 as feeling "almost revolutionary"[10] The exhibit also showed an interactive map of how Team Cherry's vision for Pharloom evolved from 2017 to 2025.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Wish Side Quests - Hollow Knight: Silksong Guide", IGN, 5 September 2025 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cardy, "Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow Expansion Revealed, Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of Original Hollow Knight Also in Development", IGN, 16 December 2025 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hussain, "Hollow Knight Sequel Silksong Revealed For Nintendo Switch And PC", GameSpot, 14 February 2019; Campbell, "First Hollow Knight Kickstarter Update In 6 Years Promises Backers Silksong Codes", GameSpot, 22 August 2025; Wood, "Team Cherry had to go back to the drawing board for Hollow Knight: Silksong for one simple reason: "Hornet being taller changes everything"", GamesRadar+, 3 September 2025; Gibson, 18 September 2025 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Milner, "The Making Of Hollow Knight"; Schreier, "The Makers of 'Silksong' Aren't Done Just Yet", Bloomberg, November 28, 2025; Howard, "Hollow Knight: Silksong Has Been Delayed", GameSpot, 10 May 2023 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fenlon, "Hollow Knight: Silksong finally gets a new trailer", PC Gamer, 12 June 2022; Peters, "Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming to Xbox, and it will be out within the next year", The Verge, 12 June 2022 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peters, "Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming to PlayStation, too", The Verge, 16 September 2022; Howard, "Hollow Knight: Silksong Has Been Delayed", GameSpot, 10 May 2023; Carptenter, "It's been 729 days since the last appearance of Silksong, and the Hollow Knight fans are in a bad way", PC Gamer, 10 June 2024; Cryer, "Five years after it was announced, Hollow Knight: Silksong devs assure rabid fans they are 'still hard at work on the game'", GamesRadar+, 14 February 2024; Bevan, "Hollow Knight: Silksong Is "Still In Development," en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Phillips, "Xbox Has a New Hollow Knight: Silksong Demo Playable at Gamescom", IGN, 28 July 2025; Reynolds, "Metroid Prime 4, Elden Ring, Silksong All Playable At Nintendo's Gamescom Booth", Nintendo Life, 7 August 2025; Valentine, "Hollow Knight: Silksong Developer Teases 'Special Announcement' Later This Week", IGN, 19 August 2025; Haider, "Hollow Knight Silksong Skips Release Date Reveal at Gamescom, Special Announcement Set for August 21", TwistedVoxel, 19 August 2025; Valentine, "Hollow Knight: Silksong Shows Up at Gamescom: en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peters, "Hollow Knight: Silksong is launching in 2025", The Verge, 2 April 2025; Norman, "Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Launch On Switch 2 In 2025", Nintendo Life, 2 April 2025 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Team Cherry, "Silksong Expansion, Hollow Knight Refreshed, and More!", Team Cherry, 15 December 2025; Williams, "Hollow Knight: Silksong Is Getting a Free, Nautical-Themed Expansion", GameSpot, December 16, 2025; Rae, "Silksong Gets Its First Free DLC Next Year, And We Already Have A Huge Clue To Where It's Set", Inverse, 16 December 2025; Archer, "We may have glimpsed Silksong's Sea of Sorrow expansion in a six-year-old trailer", Rock Paper Shotgun, 17 December 2025 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Bedingfield, "'Hollow Knight: Silksong' review: fiendishly tricky sequel was worth the wait", NME, 12 September 2025. facts only, no text reused. nme.com
  11. Foster, "Hollow Knight: Silksong Exhibit Reveals Cut Area And The Citadel's Original Name", TheGamer, 19 September 2025. facts only, no text reused. thegamer.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Hollow Knight: Silksong (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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