Hollow Knight: Silksong fans are less OK than ever after Team Cherry confirmed a 2025 launch, with fresh Steam updates pre-Summer Game Fest provoking doubters and believers: "We've come full circle"

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Hollow Knight: Silksong has gotten some more updates on its Steam page, and some fans once again reckon the game is going to shadow drop tonight or during Sunday's Xbox Games Showcase.

To call whatever happens to Silksong a shadow drop feels a bit wrong. We've known about the game for years; the only thing we don't know is exactly when it's coming out. Anyways, whatever you want to call the event, people seem to think it'll release tonight or Sunday. Stop me if this sounds familiar.

"It’s fucking happening," writes one fan on Twitter. "My guess is Xbox showcase but it might be today too," replies gaming news Twitter account Okami13_.

The reason people believe it might come on Sunday's Xbox event instead of the main showcase tonight is that Microsoft has been pushing Silksong for a while, so it may want the glory of announcing that it's finally ready to play.

One sane person on the Silksong subreddit is even offering to buy others free copies of the game if we get more news of it tonight. The catch is that you have to help them karma farm by upvoting their post, but hey, it's free.

"We've come full circle," writes another fan. "The silksanity started with checking SteamDB. We had fake news as silkposts. Now, it is about to end. What do we have? Checking SteamDB and fake news for silkposts. We have come full circle. This means that Silksong will be an endless loop of Hornet looping back to Moss Grotto every single time she is about to silk the song or whatever Hornet likes doing. Leth told this to me in my deathbed."

What's on your Summer Game Fest wishlist? I'd like to see a Haze remake announced, but I'm not betting on it.

If you want to keep up with everything that's going on this weekend and beyond, check out the Summer Game Fest 2025 schedule.

Issy van der Velde
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I'm Issy, a freelancer who you'll now occasionally see over here covering news on GamesRadar. I've always had a passion for playing games, but I learned how to write about them while doing my Film and TV degrees at the University of Warwick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you'll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, and I mainly play on my PS5. I'm currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.

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