It has been 5 lengthy years since Workforce Cherry introduced Hollow Knight: Silksong on February 14, 2019, with a launch then deliberate for PC, Mac, Linux, and Nintendo Change. And nonetheless, it stays one of the most-anticipated video video games round.
Not solely is Hollow Knight: Silksong the third most-wishlisted sport on Steam, behind solely Hades 2 and Manor Lords, however it’s one of the most-wanted Recreation Go video games following Microsoft’s take care of Workforce Cherry to carry it to its subscription service day-one. It’s additionally coming to the PlayStation Retailer, with a PlayStation 5 launch deliberate.
In June 2022, Microsoft included Hollow Knight: Silksong in its Xbox-Bethesda Showcase, and introduced that all the pieces proven could be playable in the subsequent 12 months. Xbox then seemingly confirmed that the long-awaited follow-up would certainly be out inside a yr.
Then, in Might final yr, Workforce Cherry introduced that Hollow Knight: Silksong had been delayed previous the first half of 2023 and that extra particulars would come as the sport neared its launch date. At the time, Workforce Cherry’s advertising and publishing lead Matthew Griffin mentioned: “We had deliberate to launch in the first half of 2023, however growth remains to be persevering with. We’re excited by how the sport is shaping up, and it is gotten fairly massive, so we wish to take the time to make the sport pretty much as good as we will.”
As you’d count on, Hollow Knight followers are determined for information from Workforce Cherry. Whereas the five-year anniversary of Silksong’s announcement has come and gone with out fanfare, the developer has indicated it’s nonetheless onerous at work on the sport.
Hollow Knight: Silksong Characters
As Nintendo Life notes, Hollow Knight: Silksong joins Metroid Prime 4 in the ‘5 years since announcement membership’, though in Metroid Prime 4’s case it was 5 years since Nintendo introduced it had restarted growth on the Change unique.
As the sequel to 2017’s critically acclaimed Hollow Knight, followers have been wanting ahead patiently for Silksong. In IGN’s Hollow Knight overview, we mentioned: “The world of Hallownest is compelling and wealthy, full of story that’s left so that you can uncover by yourself, and constructed with branching paths that provide an absurd quantity of selection in the way you go about discovering it. With such a excessive density of secrets and techniques to seek out and enjoyable, difficult enemies to face, it’s value spending each second you’ll be able to in Hollow Knight.”
Maybe Hollow Knight: Silksong will pop up at the subsequent Nintendo Direct?
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