Hollow Knight Silksong is real, progressing, and will release

A few days back, one of the devs for Hollow Knight made some changes to their profile picture on X and made a short announcement. Fans were quite hyped regarding more news about Hollow Knight Silksong, but that ultimately turned out to be nothing. Now, the person behind Publishing the game has confirmed that the game is real and still in development.

Fans were quite sad to see the whole Silksong theory being turned into nothing. One person asked Matthew Griffin, the person who handles the Marketing & Publishing for ‘Team Cherry’ to at least confirm if the game is still in development or abandoned.

To their surprise, Matthew responded with a huge yes revealing the game is real and currently in active development. Although, after over half a decade in development, there is still bare minimum news regarding the game which has made some people in the community tired and frustrated.

Yes the game is real, progressing and will release. <3

— Matthew Griffin (@griffinmatta) January 18, 2025

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Community expectations through the roof for Hollow Knight Silksong

While fans did get a response that the whole cake thing in the profile picture was nothing. The account claiming ‘big day’ just before the reveal of Switch 2 was suspicious. Perhaps the community will finally get to have a first look at the game during the upcoming Nintendo Direct on April 2nd.

The original game was released back in 2017, a is considered among the best platformer games. Hollow Knight was among the fan favorites for best Indie game. While Cuphead swooped the award, Hollow Knight still made a huge mark, so bit that players have been waiting for over six years for the promised sequel.

Judging by the development period Silksong might be much larger in scope. Hollow Knight was a crowdfunded game that took three years to develop and was very successful which eliminates the future funding requirements. With the game taking double the time, players expect it to be at least double in size. Team Cherry previously confirmed that the game will feature a lot more enemies than the original.