Team Cherry confirms Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming this year following Xbox Games Showcase

Team Cherry has confirmed that Hollow Knight Silksong will be coming out before the holiday season this year, following the game’s appearance at last night’s Xbox Games Showcase.

Writing on the official Silksong Discord, Team Cherry’s Matthew Griffon wrote: “I confirmed BEFORE holiday – we are not tied to a console release.” This indicates that Silksong’s release is not tied to that of Xbox’s new Xbox ROG Ally handheld.

The reason for the confusion is due to the game’s sudden appearance at the tail-end of the Xbox ROG Ally reveal at the Xbox Games Showcase. Xbox’s Sarah Bond stated that people will be able to play Silksong on this new handheld, leading some to interpret the two sharing a release date.

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The gaggle of people who have been fiending for anything and everything Silksong related have been desperate for anything concrete about the game and its release. Prior to the event-heavy weekend, interest was piqued due to an update to the game’s Steam page.

Before that, the game was confirmed as playable at an Australian museum this September. Earlier still, Nintendo included the game in a Nintendo Direct and locked in the game’s presence on both the Switch 1 and Switch 2.

There was also the cake fiasco, in which the eagle-eyed Silksong lovers went all in on a cake recipe as the core of a release date tease, a theory Team Chery had to come out and put to rest. With last night’s news, those down bad for the smallest crumb of Silksong info may be able to rest, at last.