We will be waiting a little longer for Hollow Knight: Silksong. The years-in-development sequel to the excellent hollow knight It was supposed to release within 12 months of Xbox’s June 2022 unveiling, but a representative for the game said late Tuesday that the title won’t have that release window.
“We had planned to release it in the first half of 2023, but development is still ongoing,” Matthew Griffin, who works in marketing and publishing for the game, posted on Twitter. “We’re excited about the way the game is developing, and it’s gotten pretty big, so we want to take the time to make the game the best it can be. Expect more details from us as we get closer to launch.”
silk edgingfeaturing the character Hornet from hollow knightoriginally established to be hollow knight DLC, but developer Team Cherry announced that the game would be a “full-scale sequel” in 2019. Nintendo showed some gameplay during E3 2019, but we didn’t hear much from developer Team Cherry for a few years afterward. Have a new trailer and that release window is now broken at the Xbox show in June, and in September, Sony announced that the game would be coming to PlayStation.
There is a silver lining in the delay: now that silk edging comes out later than planned, I won’t have to worry about squeezing it in along with Tears of the Kingdom.