Hollow Knight: Silksong
Release Date: September 4, 2025
Platform(s): PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch, Switch 2 (also on Game Pass)
Developer: Team Cherry
Publisher: Team Cherry
Genre: Metroidvania
Franchise: Hollow Knight
Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally here, eight years after the original game's launch. The challenging Metroidvania stars Hornet - an enemy from the original game - with a much larger world, more side content, and other improvements.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong guides
From fast travel to sprinting, you're going to need some skills to take on the bosses in the latest Hollow Knight. So here's your guide on how to get every Silksong ability.
You're definitely going to want more and more Silksong Shell Shards, as they're used to replenish tools, as well as buy certain things, and complete some wishes.
You're going to need to head to Shellwood if you want the Silksong Wall Jump and Cling Grip abilities, which are two very useful traversal tools to have.
If you've played the original game you'll know this is an essential mechanic, but the Silksong pogo jump works a little differently to the first game.
The cutest little bugs in Silksong need to be rescued, so make sure you know the location of the five Silksong fleas if you want to help the caravan crew.
You know you're playing a Hollow Knight game when the very useful Silksong double jump is called the Faydown Cloak. Here's how to find it.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong opinions
Andrew Brown's Silksong take is that we're all too impatient and he might be right. That doesn't mean Silksong isn't hard though.
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Former Edge writer, Alex Spencer, wrote this incredible piece looking back at the legacy of Hollow Knight and the journey to Silksong.
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Austin Wood celebrates the fact that Silksong was made by a small team of happy devs who were just "having fun" creating their game, rather than burning out, despite the hype.
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Latest about Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hollow Knight devs highlight a big difference between their sequel and most Metroidvanias: "The player's choice about where to go in Silksong is not dictated by what power-ups you currently have"
By Kaan Serin published
News "It's a specific kind of lock-and-key type of progression"

Silksong is shockingly cheap at just $20, but Team Cherry says it just tries to "price the games at a reasonable level for people," man
By Austin Wood published
News So that's why Silksong is so cheap – that, and Hollow Knight money

Compared to Hollow Knight, Silksong "reworked how the bosses pick their attacks," and suddenly I realize why I got crushed so often
By Austin Wood published
News Silksong is a different animal under the hood

Team Cherry hopes "if there were ever" new Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they could "just exist alongside one another" so the order you play them doesn't matter
By Austin Wood published
News Ari Gibson and William Pellen ponder a hypothetical Hollow Knight 3

Don't worry, former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida also finds Silksong difficult: "I need to quit"
By George Young published
News Even people who play games for a living are finding it tough

Silksong's most-hated areas just became a little easier thanks to desperately desired Muckmaggot nerfs
By George Young published
News "Will you walk into my parlour?" said the spider to the maggot

Lore hero condenses all of Silksong, including a cut ending, into a lightweight 77 minutes: "THE SACRED TEXTS ARE HERE"
By Austin Wood published
News Bring some popcorn

Analysis of 260,000 Silksong Steam reviews shows what players love and hate about Team Cherry’s brutal sequel: 2 damage, long runbacks, and... Elden Ring?
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