Hollow Knight: Silksong Makes Brief Appearance During Nintendo Switch 2 Direct to Secure 2025 Release Window

Team Cherry showed up for a few seconds of today’s Nintendo Switch 2 Direct to reveal that its long-awaited follow-up, Hollow Knight: Silksong, has nailed down a 2025 release window.

It showed up for the hardware-focused presentation for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment that included little more than a few seconds of new gameplay and confirmation of Team Cherry’s updated launch plans. It’s far from a release date and could absolutely be pushed, but for now, it’s the most promising update for Hollow Knight: Silksong we’ve gotten in years.

Originally confirmed for just Nintendo Switch and PC, with Xbox (and Game Pass) and PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions being added later, Team Cherry has been slowly ramping up the conversation around Silksong after going quiet for a long time. It was announced a whopping six years ago almost to the day, and outside of the occasional pop-up, it has laid dormant since. The studio behind the Hollow Knight follow-up did promise that launch would soon arrive back in 2022, but as the months came and went, hope began to dwindle that Hollow Knight: Silksong would ever arrive – until recently.

Team Cherry kicked off 2025 with a mysterious tease related to a chocolate cake recipe, leading desperate fans to hope that a re-reveal would arrive in April. Of course, we now know that, somehow, the riddle-solving Hollow Knight fans were right to expect a reveal alongside the Switch 2 Direct. Although today’s 2025 release window promise offered little in terms of actually showing what the game has to offer, it’s at least something to mark on your calendars.

Time will tell if Team Cherry will finally be able to nail down a Hollow Knight: Silksong release date before the year is out. In the meantime, you can see everything else announced during today’s Nintendo Switch 2 Direct here.

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