Hollow Knight: Silksong is the GTA6 of the indie video games world. It is the megaton recreation that each different recreation desires to dodge. However typically publishers simply cannot change their launch dates. We put collectively an inventory of a few of the different video games releasing at this time to take a look at if Silksong is not your jam (otherwise you similar to being contrarian), in addition to just a few of the anticipated video games that scooted out of the best way of Hornet and her lethal needle.
Games Releasing September 4, 2025
Journey of Samsara – Notably, Journey of Samsara is a search-action (colloquially often called a Metroidvania) recreation, similar to Hollow Knight, and also you’re additionally a little bit man with a sword. This recreation options some great-looking pixel artwork.
Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle “The Order of the Giants” DLC – This enlargement delves deeper into the “Order of Giants” hinted at within the base recreation.
Hell is Us – In a spot ravaged by conflict and a mysterious calamity, you seek for solutions about your personal previous. This recreation is a third-person motion recreation with souls-like parts.
NBA 2K26 – If there’s anybody that is not apprehensive about Silksong affecting their gross sales, its most likely 2K Games and their newest NBA recreation. There simply is not as a lot overlap with basketball as there may be with a recreation like The Adventures of Samsara or a souls-inspired recreation like Hell is Us.
Jetrunner – A classy first-person parkour recreation with flashy, cel-shaded visuals.
Other video games releasing at this time embrace the Change 2 port of Star Wars: Outlaws, All people’s Golf Sizzling Photographs, and the Apple Arcade unique NFL Retro Bowl ’26.
In the meantime, a bunch of different video games made a run for it as soon as Silksong claimed that September 4 date. The sci-fi roguelite FPS Moros Protocol jumped to September 18, as did the PlayStation 1-aesthetic roguelike survival recreation Megabonk. Child Steps, the follow-up to Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, awkwardly planted one foot in entrance of the opposite towards a September 23 launch date. Demonschool was set to launch September 23, and developer Ysbird said of the delay, “Now we have to remind ourselves that gaining visibility for Demonschool is our fundamental objective. Thus, the Ysbryd workforce strongly believes we’d not be doing our recreation any favors by wading into waters we are able to clearly see are blood purple.”
In the meantime, Hollow Knight: Silksong has landed with extraordinarily constructive phrase of mouth. It additionally nearly instantly began crashing the servers for Steam and the Nintendo eShop, and affecting service on Sport Move. Hollow Knight: Silksong peaked on Steam with 535,000 gamers, placing it within the high three for concurrent gamers alongside Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2.