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Team Cherry may not attend The Game Awards even though Silksong is nominated for GOTY, but they're pretty sure a different 'exceptional and broadly palatable' game will win

Either way, it's the year of the parry.

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Silksong devs felt they didn't 'have a lot of control' over its release date and sympathize with all the games that were delayed to avoid it: 'To some extent that probably is unfortunate'

Team Cherry was too busy finishing the game to know when exactly it would be finished.

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Silksong 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"

Time ticks on

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Team 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

"We're excited to reintroduce Sharpe," Ari Gibson says

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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"

For those who skong after

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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"

Hornet's original move set was the basis for a normal enemy

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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"

Team Cherry devs grew up playing games in a pre-internet era

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Hollow Knight devs highlight a big difference between their sequel and most Metroidvanias: "The player's choice about where to go in Silksong is not dictated by what power-ups you currently have"

"It's a specific kind of lock-and-key type of progression"

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Silksong is shockingly cheap at just $20, but Team Cherry says it just tries to "price the games at a reasonable level for people," man

So that's why Silksong is so cheap – that, and Hollow Knight money

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Team Cherry says that 'if there were ever other' Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they'd all be self-contained and 'exist alongside one another'

So no Silksong 2, huh.

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Compared to Hollow Knight, Silksong "reworked how the bosses pick their attacks," and suddenly I realize why I got crushed so often

Silksong is a different animal under the hood

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Team Cherry hopes "if there were ever" new Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they could "just exist alongside one another" so the order you play them doesn't matter

Ari Gibson and William Pellen ponder a hypothetical Hollow Knight 3

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Hollow Knight: Silksong devs believe "the real world generally underestimates players," but Team Cherry trusts fans to "engage" and figure the Metroidvania out: "You can guide them a little bit, and that's enough"

"It certainly underestimates their capacity to deal with things"

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Team Cherry explains the Silksong development process that was so fun devs just couldn't stop: "If you're trying to build a Mario level, you might take an empty space and think, oh, should there be a few platforms here?"

A look into the Hollow Knight sequel's production

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Silksong's first area was only added after Team Cherry realized it needed a softer intro: "We're trying to be kind of respectful to the player. We're not trying to baby them"

But not too soft

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Team Cherry explains Silksong is more lethal because players are too: 'Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight … the base level enemy had to be more complicated, more intelligent'

The Hollow Knight sequel's brutal difficulty ensures its powerhouse protagonist has a meaningful challenge.

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Silksong is harder than Hollow Knight because "Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight," Team Cherry says, and you can use Elden Ring logic to get around the difficulty anyway

Hornet's just too cool

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Silksong is way harder than Hollow Knight, and my theory is that Team Cherry became evil masterminds without even realizing it

Opinion | The Hollow Knight: Silksong difficulty jump has thrown me for a loop

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The Guardian - AU

Hollow Knight: Silksong launch crashes online gaming stores

Steam, the Nintendo eShop and Playstation Store among those that crashed on Friday, unable to cope with demand for the Australian-made game

International Business Times UK

Quick Facts on Hollow Knight: Silksong: Price, When Is It Coming Out, And How Can I Play It?

Team Cherry confirms Hollow Knight: Silksong launches 4 September 2025 on all major platforms, priced under £17 for PC users.

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Team Cherry had to go back to the drawing board for Hollow Knight: Silksong for one simple reason: "Hornet being taller changes everything"

"Her fighting is so fast, and she's so competent, that it changes the way enemies need to be designed"

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Team Cherry hoped Silksong could be anyone's "first Hollow Knight game," and one reason it took 7 years is they were "comfortable" not knowing what's gonna happen: "The really interesting things are the things you sort of discover along the way"

"The difficulty also sits alongside the game in that way," Team Cherry said

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Hollow Knight's creators didn't want to be constrained by the 'metroidvania' label, but they accidentally set a standard that every game since—even Silksong—has to reckon with

Like Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight is the rare successor to totally eclipse its inspirations.

PC Gamer

How to design a great Metroidvania map

The creators of Hollow Knight describe how they built a complex, interconnected world, from sketches to final game.

TechRadar

Now that Hollow Knight: Silksong has a release date, Team Cherry teases more to come post-launch – 'The most interesting thing now is what can we add to it next'

Team Cherry has confirmed it has plans to add new content to Hollow Knight: Silksong post-launch.

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