The wait is almost over: It’s been officially confirmed thatHollow Knight: Silksongwill be coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025. The followup to the massively successful MetroidvaniaHollow Knighthas been in the works for over six years, with developer Team Cherry sharing few updates about the game’s progress. The team has been so quiet, in fact, that many fans have been speculating whether the title would be stuck in development limbo like many other games.
However, it seems that the game is indeed alive and well and getting ready to launch this year.Silksongwill be joining other titles on the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 lineup this year, according to the April 2 Nintendo Direct streamed on the officialNintendo of AmericaYouTube channel. The stream showed offa very brief look at gameplay footage from the upcoming game,with an X post fromNintendo of Europeand the officialHollow KnightDiscord channel both confirming thatthe game is, in fact, actually coming out this year.
After A 6-Year Wait, Hollow Knight: Silksong Is Officially Coming In 2025
The Game Remains One Of The Most Anticipated Titles
Silksongwas first revealed to be in development in 2019, but since then, Team Cherry has been very quiet about the status of the game and its development. Calling fans “eager” to playSilksongwould be an understatement, asthe game has been the most wishlisted title on Steam for many monthsuntil it wasdethroned byinZOIlast month.
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Team Cherry’s choice to remain quiet as it worked onSilksongleft the community torn, withsome believing that the lack of communication meant the game was in trouble. The concern led to the studio’s Marketing and PR director Matthew Griffin, also known as “Leth,” to assure fans that the game “is real, progressing, and will release"in anXpost earlier this year. It seems that fans had no cause for concern, though—even thoughSilksongdoesn’t yet have a specific release date, it will finally be available for the community to enjoy (and repeatedly die, probably) sometime this year.
A Nintendo Switch 2 Release Explains The Silksong Chocolate Cake Controversy
Hinting At The Switch 2 Before Nintendo Was Ready May Have Caused Team Cherry Trouble
This January sawSilksongat the center of a controversy, andit all started with a picture of a cake. Team Cherry member Little Bomeychanged their X profile picture to a slice of chocolate cakeand told fans to keep their eyes “closed” for something big on its way, which sent theHollow Knightcommunity into a frenzy trying to decipher the cryptic clue. Internet sleuths found out that the picture was from a recipe posted on April 2, so when the April 2 Nintendo Direct was announced the following day, fans naturally assumed that Team Cherry was hinting at a Switch 2 release forSilksong.
The team was quick to deny this, trying to convince the community that sometimes a cake is just a cake, but by then the damage had already been done. The entirechocolate cake debacle left fans feeling slightedand asking Team Cherry to just communicate with them without any tricks.
Now thatSilksonghas been revealed for Switch 2 after all, the entire episode makes a little more sense and it turns out that the cake was not a lie, after all. Nintendo is incredibly protective of its properties, so even a hint at the upcoming console before Nintendo was ready to reveal it could have strained the relationship between the gaming giant and the indie Team Cherry. Now that the Nintendo Switch 2 has been officially revealed,Hollow Knight: Silksongfans can expect to see some more open communication from the team.
