After seven long years, Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally set to release. As such, we're spinning up the ol' live blog to cover the event and give you a one-stop shop to get all the updates you need as launch comes and goes.
It's a story you've likely heard before, but Silksong started as Hollow Knight DLC that featured the fan-favorite character Hornet. So it goes with game development, though, ambition swelled and developer Team Cherry found itself with something that probably needed an entire new release to do it justice. And soon, that release will be upon us.
While the big question on everyone's minds is why development took so long, the answer is actually quite simple. Team Cherry is a lean size and simply enjoyed Silksong's development process. While the community would have liked more updates to stop themselves from bringing out the clown makeup for each new showcase of games news and reveals, Team Cherry didn't have much to offer aside from the fact that development was continuing. At least we got some laughs, I suppose.
That's it for me tonight. While we get some rest to prepare for the big launch, the countdown continues. Check back tomorrow as we chronicle the release and reception of probably the most-anticipated Metroidvania ever.
In case you missed it, we played Hollow Knight: Silksong!
The demo, anyway. Our Gamescom Hollow Knight: Silksong hands-on preview saw boss man Josh West fall for the game – hard enough for him to want to play about 60 times more. As he said at the time:
"Silksong is building smartly on exceptionally solid foundations, and it's doing so with a greater focus on aggression, decisive action, and proactive decision making. I only played 30 minutes of Hollow Knight Silksong, and now I'm desperate for that to transform into 30 hours."
One godly player finished every completion milestone in Hollow Knight, including every boss and upgrade, as well as every last Godmaster Pantheon boss, in under 2 hours and 50 minutes. Granted, it was literally one second under, but it still counts, and it's extremely impressive. I shudder to think what people are going to do to Silksong now that the Hollow Knight community is so much bigger today.
Righto, I'm heading out for the day, but our resident Metroidvania sicko Austin will be along shortly to keep you in the loop with everything Silksong.
Hollow Knight: Silksong Ultrawide!For PC players, screen ratios up to 21:9 are fully supported. pic.twitter.com/NAM1wYy4NhSeptember 3, 2025
Swiftly moving on to make myself feel better, Silksong publishing chap Matthew Griffin confirms on Twitter that the Hollow Knight follow-up supports ultrawide on screen ratios up to 21:9. See what that looks like in some rather excellent pictures above.
Hollow Knight: Silksong Steam backer codes have been sent out this morning. Game releases in about ~22 hours
Next up, while you can't pre-order the game, the cost won't be too great. Just the other day, Team Cherry revealed that the Silksong price will be $20, just $5 more than its predecessor.
On top of that, it took three years, but Xbox has finally delivered on its Silksong promise by ensuring Team Cherry's latest game hits Game Pass on day one. Just in case you don't fancy chucking 20 bucks at it.
And away we go! First things first, it's worth noting that we're not getting a midnight release for Silksong. As you can see from the information above, the wait is just a little bit longer than you'd think. Given that it's taken seven years to get here, though, I think I can spare another few hours or so.
