Another Day, Another Hollow Knight: Silksong Steam Update — Could We Finally Get a Release Date This Week?

Another day, different Hollow Knight: Silksong SteamDB update that's whipped information-starved Hollow Knight fans into a frenzy. Could this 1 yet beryllium the one?

Overnight, Hollow Knight: Silksong was softly updated connected Steam, with SteamDB noting that 1 bundle received its archetypal update successful implicit a twelvemonth (thanks, Eurogamer). It instantly sent the rumor mill into overdrive, with players speculating that something's afoot. Will we yet spot much astatine Summer Game Fest? Could it beryllium portion of the Xbox Showcase? Or could we adjacent get a Nintendo Switch 2 shadiness drop…?!

Hollow Knight: Silksong received updates to its packages contiguous connected SteamDB (one seemingly receiving an update for the archetypal clip successful 15 months) https://t.co/DJz9ebnffghttps://t.co/THPp2luYgp pic.twitter.com/9RvHY290ez

Of course, fans instantly began scouring the updates for clues. And portion immoderate person been wounded earlier by a flurry of nothingburger, this update is peculiarly breathtaking due to the fact that respective fans judge we person impervious Hollow Knight: Silksong — oregon astatine slightest immoderate mentation of it — has "been uploaded to the Steam servers."

"[Is this R]eal?" asked 1 instrumentality hopefully. "Real," the OP replied.

Team Cherry has ever done things connected its ain timescales, and is notoriously tight-lipped, leaving america speculating implicit the tiniest, and sometimes silliest, details. Now, however, it really feels similar there's thing coming… here's hoping we find retired what it is sooner alternatively than later.

Team Cherry’s sequel is 1 of the astir anticipated games successful the satellite close now, topping the Steam wishlist charts for years. Silksong made a little quality astatine Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct successful April, and soon aft Team Cherry nailed down the 2025 merchandise window, overmuch to the alleviation of its precise diligent fans. And now, fixed we cognize it volition beryllium playable for those who tin beryllium astatine Australia’s nationalist depository of surface culture, ACMI, from September 18, immoderate are speculating that we could beryllium looking astatine a motorboat earlier then… though nothing's confirmed arsenic yet, of course.

IGN precocious exclusively shared a Silksong sprite expanse and… well, the net internet-ed.

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