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 trailers and videos
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.
Hollow Knight: Silksong screenshots
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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NewsTeam Cherry finally answers to the crimes of Silksong's Bilewater: "We just love a big swamp. We wanted some kind of poison status for ages"
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NewsSilksong devs say it's "unfortunate" their release date caused so many panicked indie delays: "We didn't even know the date until basically a week or two before"
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NewsSilksong devs "have other games that we plan to make" that aren't just Hollow Knight, but their own deaths weigh on them: "It’s not that far off if you spend 7 years per project"
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NewsTeam Cherry teases Silksong DLC and the return of a character revealed 7 years ago: "We've noticed that people would like an expansion" like Hollow Knight's Pantheon
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Silksong devs "maybe" aren't going to The Game Awards and think they're "safe" from a GOTY win because of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is "exceptional and broadly palatable"
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Team Cherry demonstrates the evolution between Hollow Knight and Silksong: "If the Last Judge had existed in the previous game, it would have probably been more of a big, round blob"
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Silksong devs say "it's very difficult to preserve mystery these days," and Zelda 2-era inspirations pushed them toward a world you can explore "divorced from the internet"
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