Hollow Knight: Silksong devs swear it ‘will release’ in new update

It’s confirmed: Hollow Knight: Silksong is still a real video game that’s in active development, despite recent conspiracy theories. Matthew Griffin, who handles marketing and publishing for Team Cherry, wrote last Friday on X, “Yes the game is real, progressing and will release.”

Griffin’s comment was a reply to an X user asking for an update after Hollow Knight speedrunner fireb0rn doused a growing conspiracy theory in the game’s community that a release date announcement was on its way. As Hollow Knight fans are wont to do, they thought they cracked the code on why developer William Pellen’s alt X account changed its profile picture and teased that “something big is coming.” It turns out, nothing big was coming after all.

It’s back to waking up every day and hoping there’s news about the hotly-anticipated sequel to the 2017 action game. Ever since Silksong was announced in 2019, its fans have been searching for signs that its coming out. The community is so rabid, it’s basically a meme at this point. Not a major game announcement goes by without fans desperately hoping that Silksong will miraculously show up. The game’s subreddit is like watching the GIF of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Charlie Day hysterically explaining the patterns he found in a bunch of letters pinned to a wall. The game needs to come out if only to give these people something else to do.

Hopefully, it won’t be long. The last we heard is the game was planned to release in 2023, but was delayed to 2024. Obviously it didn’t make that date either, but at least we know it’s still on the way. Get ready for another spark of speculative hype in April when we’ll get the first Switch 2 Nintendo Direct presentation. And if that’s not fruitful, there’s always Summer Games Fest.