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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Latest about Hollow Knight: Silksong

Silksong has been sent back in time to the N64 era with a fan-made demake, and I shudder to think of how hard it would be with 5th-gen controls
By Jordan Gerblick published
News What a harrowing thought

Team Cherry are "healthy workaholics," Silksong voice actor says: "They were working a lot" but understand "people have lives and need to have a good quality of life"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Shakra's voice actor says "I'd be lying if I said that they're not very hard workers"

Silksong "was much harder when I did it," says Team Cherry tester who also voiced Trobbio: "It was almost entirely nerfs to bosses that I got put in"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Matt Trobbiani got to playtest Silksong and voice his namesake boss

Well, I have to play Silksong again because of this impressive voiced mod that lets Hornet sing Sherma's song in place of the needolin
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Hornet's got a decent set of pipes, it turns out

Silksong voice actor behind Shakra says Team Cherry would give the same advice players shared: if something feels really hard, "maybe that's a sign" you should explore more
By Scott McCrae published
News Lauren Koopowitz hasn't played the Hollow Knight sequel yet, but says "don't be scared to play it"

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
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Free Hornet!

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
By Catherine Lewis published
News Thread Storm, my beloved

It took 8 hours of losing to find my favorite thing about Hollow Knight: Silksong
By James Daly published
Opinion Opinion | A boss fight so fun it changed my perspective
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