Hollow Knight: Silksong
Release Date: September 4, 2025
Platform(s): PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch, Switch 2 (also on Game Pass)
Developer: Team Cherry
Publisher: Team Cherry
Genre: Metroidvania
Franchise: Hollow Knight
Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally here, eight years after the original game's launch. The challenging Metroidvania stars Hornet - an enemy from the original game - with a much larger world, more side content, and other improvements.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong guides
From fast travel to sprinting, you're going to need some skills to take on the bosses in the latest Hollow Knight. So here's your guide on how to get every Silksong ability.
You're definitely going to want more and more Silksong Shell Shards, as they're used to replenish tools, as well as buy certain things, and complete some wishes.
You're going to need to head to Shellwood if you want the Silksong Wall Jump and Cling Grip abilities, which are two very useful traversal tools to have.
If you've played the original game you'll know this is an essential mechanic, but the Silksong pogo jump works a little differently to the first game.
The cutest little bugs in Silksong need to be rescued, so make sure you know the location of the five Silksong fleas if you want to help the caravan crew.
You know you're playing a Hollow Knight game when the very useful Silksong double jump is called the Faydown Cloak. Here's how to find it.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong opinions
Andrew Brown's Silksong take is that we're all too impatient and he might be right. That doesn't mean Silksong isn't hard though.
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Former Edge writer, Alex Spencer, wrote this incredible piece looking back at the legacy of Hollow Knight and the journey to Silksong.
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Austin Wood celebrates the fact that Silksong was made by a small team of happy devs who were just "having fun" creating their game, rather than burning out, despite the hype.
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Silksong fans discover how to put Hornet in jail for life and ruin their saves, which no one should do willingly unless they love suffering
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New Silksong patch nerfs my favorite Hornet Silk Skill but makes up for it with bug fixes aplenty, including out-of-bounds issues and a softlock
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It took 8 hours of losing to find my favorite thing about Hollow Knight: Silksong
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Silksong modders beat Team Cherry at sadism, lay the groundwork for the quest to beat the whole game as naked Hornet: "Her kick damage is like, 1/5 of a default nail"
By Austin Wood published
News Cloakless Crest Hornet challenge runs when?

Silksong player pops the hood, checks the gauges, and determines the best silk skill is one you get very early on: "This should surprise absolutely nobody"
By Austin Wood published
News Thread Storm is the DPS king by a country mile

Silksong is crushing Hollow Knight sales with 6 million downloads after 4 weeks, analyst reports – 4 million on Steam alone
By Austin Wood published
News That is a lot of bench tax money

"Insanely hard" Silksong true ending speedrun world record is somehow already under 4 hours: "We have to do the entire game with 5 masks and 2 needle upgrades"
By Austin Wood published
News "I think, realistically, a 3:50 is pretty possible," says speedrunner BlueSR

Hollow Knight: Silksong sicko laughs in the face of the difficulty discourse, completes the metroidvania without taking a single hit because "it did not seem that bad"
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