Hollow Knight: Silksong “special announcement” coming this Thursday
Hollow Knight developer Team Cherry has revealed that a “special announcement” is coming about Hollow Knight: Silksong later this week.
In a post on Twitter, the developer invited fans to join it on Thursday, August 21, 2025, for a “special announcement about Hollow Knight: Silksong.” There’s really only one thing that can mean: a Silksong release date is imminent, after years of development and almost as much speculation.
Team Cherry shared a link to the YouTube Premiere in the tweet, which we’ve embedded below and is already lit up with thousands of chatters.
Here’s when the presentation will go live in each time zone:
- PDT – 7:30am
- EDT – 10:30am
- BRT – 11:30am
- BST – 3:30pm
- CEST – 4:30pm
- IST – 8:00pm
- CST – 10:30pm
- JST – 11:30pm
- AEST – 12:30am (August 22)
- NZST – 2:30am
Silksong was first announced to be a standalone sequel all the way back in February 2019, over five years ago at this point. It was initially intended to be a DLC expansion for the original game, but it quickly grew in scope and Aussie developer Team Cherry spun it out into a full-fledged sequel.
The game follows the one-time rival and friend to The Knight in the original game, Hornet, after she was captured and taken to a far away kingdom. Hornet has her own unique set of skills and abilities, and her gameplay style is much faster-paced than in the last game.
We had an inkling that Silksong might get some big information — but there’s been plenty of smoke and not a lot of fire over the years. The game’s Steam page has been updated countless times over the years, and there have been multiple release windows mooted and then canned between 2019 and now. It’s also appeared in multiple presentations, most recently the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, and is said to be coming out on or before Xbox’s handheld PC.
Shortly after its listing on the Microsoft Store back in 2023, age ratings for the game appeared on classification boards for both Korea and Australia, the latter of which says the game was submitted for rating through IARC. Typically that means a game is content complete – meaning all of the content is finalized but there’s still a lot of polishing to go – so it was only a matter of time.
It’s also playable on both Switch 2 and on Xbox’s PC handheld at Gamescom, something that’s likely to attract a lot of attention, and will ultimately be released on just about every platform under the sun.