5 Years After It Was Announced, Hollow Knight: Silksong Is Still One of the Most-Anticipated Games Around

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It has been five long years since Team Cherry announced Hollow Knight: Silksong on February 14, 2019, with a launch then planned for PC, Mac, Linux, and Nintendo Switch. And still, it remains one of the most-anticipated video games around.

Not only is Hollow Knight: Silksong the third most-wishlisted game on Steam, behind only Hades 2 and Manor Lords, but it is one of the most-wanted Game Pass games following Microsoft’s deal with Team Cherry to bring it to its subscription service day-one. It’s also coming to the PlayStation Store, with a PlayStation 5 launch planned.

In June 2022, Microsoft included Hollow Knight: Silksong in its Xbox-Bethesda Showcase, and announced that everything shown would be playable in the next 12 months. Xbox then seemingly confirmed that the long-awaited follow-up would indeed be out within a year.

Then, in May last year, Team Cherry announced that Hollow Knight: Silksong had been delayed past the first half of 2023 and that more details would come as the game neared its release date. At the time, Team Cherry’s marketing and publishing lead Matthew Griffin said: “We had planned to release in the first half of 2023, but development is still continuing. We're excited by how the game is shaping up, and it's gotten quite big, so we want to take the time to make the game as good as we can.”

As you’d expect, Hollow Knight fans are desperate for news from Team Cherry. While the five-year anniversary of Silksong’s announcement has come and gone without fanfare, the developer has indicated it’s still hard at work on the game.

As Nintendo Life notes, Hollow Knight: Silksong joins Metroid Prime 4 in the 'five years since announcement club', although in Metroid Prime 4’s case it was five years since Nintendo announced it had restarted development on the Switch exclusive.

As the sequel to 2017’s critically acclaimed Hollow Knight, fans have been looking forward patiently for Silksong. In IGN’s Hollow Knight review, we said: "The world of Hallownest is