Hollow Knight: Silksong Gets Steam Metadata Changes That Point to 2025 and Yes, We’re Doing This Again

Hot connected the heels of Microsoft’s casual notation of Hollow Knight: Silksong successful an authoritative Xbox post, backend changes to the game’s Steam listing person fueled speculation that it’s acceptable for a re-reveal and imaginable merchandise soon.

As spotted crossed societal media, Reddit, Discords, and galore different corners of the internet, the Steam metadata of Hollow Knight: Silksong was updated connected March 24. The changes, documented connected SteamDB, see an opt-in for Hollow Knight: Silksong connected GeForce Now, Nvidia’s video crippled streaming platform, changed assets, and, crucially, a alteration to the Steam store page’s ineligible lines truthful Hollow Knight is listed arsenic copyright Team Cherry 2025, not 2019.

It each points to thing Hollow Knight: Silksong-related happening soon, a imaginable 2025 release, and with Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct acceptable for April 2, fans whitethorn not person agelong to hold to find out.

It's been six years since Hollow Knight: Silksong’s announcement. In the years since determination person been spots of caller information, but agelong periods of vigor soundlessness from the developers astatine Team Cherry.

January, however, was a peculiarly engaged period for deranged Hollow Knight fans, with cryptic X/Twitter enactment from 1 developer sparking rampant speculation astir a imaginable re-reveal during the Switch 2 nonstop — and perchance adjacent merchandise connected Nintendo’s next-gen console arsenic a timed motorboat exclusive.

It’s worthy remembering that erstwhile Hollow Knight: Silksong was announced, Team Cherry confirmed the motorboat platforms arsenic Windows, Mac, Linux, and Nintendo Switch. It's besides 1 of the most-wanted Game Pass games pursuing Microsoft’s woody with Team Cherry to bring Silksong to its subscription work day-one.

In June 2022, Microsoft included Hollow Knight: Silksong successful its Xbox-Bethesda Showcase, and announced that everything shown would beryllium playable successful the adjacent 12 months. Xbox past seemingly confirmed that the long-awaited follow-up would so beryllium retired wrong a year.

Then, successful May 2023, Team Cherry announced that Hollow Knight: Silksong had been delayed past the archetypal fractional of 2023 and that much details would travel arsenic the crippled neared its merchandise date. At the time, Team Cherry’s selling and publishing pb Matthew Griffin said: “We had planned to merchandise successful the archetypal fractional of 2023, but improvement is inactive continuing. We're excited by however the crippled is shaping up, and it's gotten rather big, truthful we privation to instrumentality the clip to marque the crippled arsenic bully arsenic we can.”

As the sequel to 2017’s critically acclaimed Hollow Knight, Silksong has immense anticipation astir it, and remains 1 of the astir wishlisted games connected Steam. In IGN’s Hollow Knight review, we said: "The satellite of Hallownest is compelling and rich, afloat of communicative that’s near for you to observe connected your own, and built with branching paths that connection an absurd magnitude of prime successful however you spell astir discovering it. With specified a precocious density of secrets to find and fun, challenging enemies to face, it’s worthy spending each infinitesimal you tin successful Hollow Knight.”

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