Attention all vessels: Hollow Knight: Silksong is real and (finally) coming on Sept. 4, developer Team Cherry announced Thursday during a special announcement livestream. We knew it was coming, or at least there were hints of the game during events like the previous Nintendo’s Indie World showcase, and there was a demo available at Gamescom this week. But until now, the long-awaited sequel to the original Hollow Knight had proven evasive for most of 2025.
The reveal was unfortunately rather short. We see Hornet traversing all sorts of places, and the trailer says she will be ascending to the peak of a vast, haunted kingdom where she will find over 40 bosses. Some of these encounters look epic, too. At one point, Hornet is facing a weird little bugger amid a vast field of white roses. But the critical thing here is that Silksong is out extremely soon. You’ll only have to wait a couple of weeks now!
It’s been eight years since Team Cherry cursed the world with its vision of a fallen bug kingdom in Hollow Knight, and just as many since fans have been waiting for what happens next. A sequel was announced in 2019, but development turned rocky for the hyped follow-up. While painful for fans, the development mirrors that of the original Hollow Knight, which originally began as a game jam title that blossomed into a full-blown Kickstarter campaign. Team Cherry had originally planned on releasing the game in 2015, only to delay it for two years.
Silksong began as DLC for Hollow Knight only to be expanded into a stand-alone title, and the switch likely didn’t help the trio of developers stay faithful to the original game plan. Yes, one of the best Metroidvania games to ever exist has largely been the work of a tiny team hailing out of Australia. Taking all of this into consideration, Silksong’s development starts to make a lot more sense, doesn’t it? At least the Silksong memes have kept everyone warm in the interim.
Between a Switch 2 announcement and the upcoming playable demo at Gamescom from Microsoft, though, famished Hollow Knight fans are finally eating. You can expect Silksong to take place in an entirely new setting filled with 200 new types of enemies. You’ll control Hornet, a mysterious enemy present throughout Hollow Knight — and her moveset is way more acrobatic than that of the methodical knight protagonist.
Beyond Switch 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong is also dropping for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, as well as Microsoft’s upcoming portables, ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. With a release window in sight, it’s probably a great time to play Hollow Knight.
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