At Long Last, Hollow Knight: Silksong Has a Release Date

Team Cherry has yet reemerged with a merchandise day for the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong. It's coming retired connected September 4, 2025.

We learned this contiguous via a nearly-two-minute caller trailer dropped by Team Cherry, which showed a ton of caller footage from the game. We spot Horney exploring, loads of caller insectoid NPCs, dreary graveyards, swamps, a bustling city, caller enemies (over 200, per the trailer!), caller bosses (over 40!) an Ori-style flight sequence, and more.

First announced successful 2019, the merchandise day for the agelong awaited sequel was yet shared much than six years aft Silksong was announced.

Originally confirmed for conscionable Nintendo Switch and PC, but yet Xbox (and Game Pass) and aboriginal PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, Team Cherry has been dilatory ramping up the speech astir Silksong aft going quiescent for a agelong time.

A trailer officially re-revealed the crippled astatine the Xbox Bethesda Showcase successful June 2022, astatine which constituent Xbox besides confirmed the crippled would beryllium disposable sometime wrong the adjacent 12 months. Team Cherry didn't accidental thing itself, however, leaving immoderate speculation astir its merchandise date.

The fervor has reached a fever-pitch successful caller weeks, arsenic the crippled was revealed to beryllium playable astatine Gamescom, and Geoff Keighley teased with immoderate caller footage astatine Gamescom Opening Night Live yesterday. The assemblage astir Silksong has turned the agelong hold for a merchandise day into a meme implicit the years, getting worked up implicit cocoa barroom recipes and metaphorically "putting connected clown makeup" each clip a caller showcase dropped.

Congrats to the Silksong lovers. Silksong is yet Silksoon.

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