Summary
- Hollow Knight: Silksong, the highly anticipated sequel, is confirmed for a day one Xbox Game Pass launch.
- The ID@Xbox director mentioned Silksong, creating excitement among fans.
- Fans speculate Silksong may finally release in 2025, following years of silence from Team Cherry.
Hollow Knight: Silksong has recently been mentioned by the head of ID@Xbox alongside a handful of other games that are confirmed to be releasing this year. It’s been widely accepted since the game’s 2017 release that the original Hollow Knight is one of the greatest indie games ever made. A brutally challenging 2D Metroidvania, Hollow Knight garnered near universal praise, with its Nintendo Switch port achieving a 90 on Metacritic. Hollow Knight: Silksong began development as DLC for the original game, but later grew into a fully fledged sequel.
With six entire years passing since Hollow Knight: Silksong‘s initial reveal back in 2019, the sequel has achieved a unicorn-like reputation, leaving fans in the dark for years on end, popping out every few years with a small update. Its largest update by far was at Xbox’s 2022 Summer Game Fest showcase, where Hollow Knight: Silksong debuted an all-new trailer and confirmed its day one Xbox Game Pass launch. This same showcase promised all its games would be out in the next 12 months, insinuating Silksong would be out by June 2023. However, as the deadline neared, developer Team Cherry announced Silksong‘s indefinite delay, and fans have heard nothing but radio silence from the team ever since.
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The director of ID@Xbox, Guy Richards, made reference to Hollow Knight: Silksong in a new Xbox Wire post. In addition to talking about some of the program’s recent successes, such as last year’s indie hits Neva and Another Crab’s Treasure, Richards also looked ahead at some of Xbox’s indie partnerships fans can be excited about this year. Richards went on to name games like turn-based fantasy RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Descenders Next, and Remedy Entertainment’s co-op FPS, FBC Firebreak. In that same breath, Richards unexpectedly name-dropped Hollow Knight: Silksong, creating much buzz and excitement among fans online.
Hollow Knight: Silksong Mentioned by ID@Xbox’s Guy Richards
It’s very interesting how each of the three games that preceded Hollow Knight: Silksong in Guy Richards’ comment all have 2025 release dates or windows. Both Descenders Next and Expedition 33 are releasing next month, on April 9 and 24 respectively, and FBC Firebreak is expected to land at some point in 2025. Since Silksong already had a release window that it missed two years ago, it doesn’t seem too unlikely that the game will finally see its long-awaited and highly anticipated release by the end of this year. Still, some Hollow Knight fans aren’t holding their breath after six years of near-complete silence from Team Cherry.
With Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct right around the corner on April 2, some Hollow Knight: Silksong hopefuls are thinking it might show up there. However, it seems Silksong might already have some sort of marketing partnership in place with Xbox and Game Pass. Furthermore, Nintendo might only want to focus this upcoming Direct on the new Switch 2 console and its own first-party games. As usual, Hollow Knight fans will just have to tune in to see whether the planets are aligned for Silksong.
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