After years and years of development and fears that the it might never release, Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date is September 4. If you’ve been waiting for years and want to play the game the moment it unlocks, developer Team Cherry has published the exact launch times for the game.
The long-awaited metroidvania game launches on September 4 at 7 AM PT. Below you can see more global unlock times.
Hollow Knight: Silksong release times
September 4
- 7 AM PT
- 10 AM ET
- 4 PM CEST
- 11 PM JST
As announced previously, Silksong will cost $20 at launch on all platforms. There will be a free Switch 2 upgrade for original Switch owners.
What is Hollow Knight: Silksong?
Hollow Knight: Silksong is the long-awaited sequel to Team Cherry’s 2017 game Hollow Knight. The game sold more than 15 million copies and was highly regarded critically. The sequel, Silksong, was originally going to be DLC for Hollow Knight, but Team Cherry said its scope grew to the point that it had become a full, standalone game. Silksong has players becoming the character Hornet in a 2D platforming world. The game has new enemy types and bosses, and the Greymoor area is among the biggest Team Cherry has ever created.
Why did Hollow Knight: Silksong take so long to come out?
Team Cherry founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen said Silksong was not stuck in development hell or anything like that. The enormous success of the 2017 game allowed the Australia-based developers to develop the follow-up at their own pace.
“It was never stuck or anything,” Gibson told Bloomberg. “It was always progressing. It’s just the case that we’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.”
One of the reasons why Silksong did not come out sooner was due to how, as previously stated, it was originally envisioned as an expansion to Hollow Knight. As for why Team Cherry went quiet and didn’t discuss development updates with fans over the years, Gibson said the team opted not to because, “All we could really say is, ‘We’re still working on it.'”
Pellen added: “Instead of popping up and bugging people for the sake of it, it felt like our actual responsibility was just to work on the game.”
At one point, Silksong was officially scheduled to launch before June 2023, and Pellen said the team did “genuinely believe” the game would make it out then. But that didn’t happen, of course.
The wait could have been even longer. Gibson said Team Cherry has a development structure that allows its members to “see results fasts,” with ideas turning into real elements of the game “almost immediately.” That was a fun way to work, Gibson said, but it also presented challenges.
“I remember at some point I just had to stop sketching,” Gibson said. “Because I went, ‘Everything I’m drawing here has to end up in the game. That’s a cool idea, that’s in. That’s a cool idea, tha’ts in.’ You realize, ‘If I don’t stop drawing, this is going to take 15 years to finish.'”
Is Hollow Knight: Silksong on Game Pass?
Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available at launch for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers. Alternatively, as mentioned, it can be purchased outright for $20.
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