Hollow Knight: Silksong devs never read YouTube or Reddit comments, but they're aware a community of increasingly desperate Silkposters is out there: "Feels like we’re going to ruin their fun by releasing the game"

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"They’ve obviously formed their own strange or very exciting communities around it"

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is a long-awaited sequel to a beloved game, and I think it's fair to say the desperation for its release has taken on a life of its own. The devs at Team Cherry, the tiny Australian indie studio behind both games, say they try to stay offline, but they're certainly aware of the community of Silkposters that has grown increasingly prolific over the past few years.

Team Cherry co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen tell Bloomberg that they never read YouTube or Reddit comments, but friends and family have kept them apprised of the funniest bits. "It's nice that people are passionate about the game, and that they’ve obviously formed their own strange or very exciting communities around it," Gibson says.

"Feels like we’re going to ruin their fun by releasing the game," as Pellen puts it.

Hopefully Silksong will be a great game – Team Cherry certainly has the chops to make it so – but no individual game could ever possibly live up to the levels of hype and mystique that the community has built around it. Here's hoping the Silksong community can find a new use for its energies when the game finally launches – perhaps speculating about the post-launch updates to come.

Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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