Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has a cameo position in Crew Cherry’s new mega hit indie sport, Hollow Knight: Silksong.
The sequel to Crew Cherry’s unique bleak and beloved metroidvania sport lastly launched throughout PC and consoles earlier immediately, bringing an finish to greater than six painful years of anticipation. As what is bound to be thousands and thousands of followers swarm to see if the wait was value it, The Verge has identified that the Hollow Knight: Silksong credit tease a particular cameo from one of the crucial notable indie builders of the final decade.
Those that navigate to the Hollow Knight sequel’s credit – which will be discovered in the “extras” choice on the primary menu – will discover that Barone is featured among the many shortlist of names included underneath “Extra Character Voices.” It signifies that, if you realize the place to look, you’ll be capable of hear the mastermind behind farming sim sensation Stardew Valley amongst these lending their voice abilities to the land of Pharloom and all of its insect inhabitants.
Sadly, it’s a bit unclear how precisely Barone is featured in Hollow Knight: Silksong. ConcernedApe’s head of operations and enterprise growth, Cole Medeiros, confirmed with The Verge that, whereas the Stardew Valley creator does certainly play a position in the Hollow Knight follow-up, they aren’t able to reveal who he performs. Medeiros added that Barone would “relatively not say which character(s) in order to not spoil any surprises for anybody.”
Though tons of of 1000’s of gamers have already logged in to Steam to play Hollow Knight: Silksong on a Thursday morning, it’d take a while to seek out how Barone is featured. Crew Cherry made the metroidvania sequel obtainable for gamers immediately, September 4, 2025, for $19.99 for PC, Nintendo Swap, Nintendo Swap 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X | S, and it instantly helped trigger digital storefronts like Steam and the Nintendo eShop to crash. As followers proceed to pour in, they’ll be met with a sport that seems to be considerably greater than the already fairly giant unique Hollow Knight.
As followers proceed to show over each bug boss and creepy enemy in search of Barone, you’ll be able to see how gamers can reap the benefits of enhanced options in the Swap 2 model of Hollow Knight: Silksong. It’s also possible to see why the announcement of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s launch date had a few different builders prepared to vary their very own schedules.
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