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Team Cherry Has Delayed Hollow Knight: Silksong

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Team Cherry, the indie development outfit responsible for producing smash hit 2D platformer Hollow Knight (2017), has this week announced that the sequel - Silksong - will be missing its proposed early-ish 2023 launch window. The Australian team's publishing and marketing manager Matthew Griffin confirmed via a tweet that Hollow Knight: Silksong is still a work-in-progress project: "Hey gang, just a quick update about Silksong. We had planned to release in the 1st 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."

Hollow Knight: Silksong was first revealed to the public back in 2019, with Team Cherry taking a quiet approach to the release of preview material since then. A playable demo was on show at E3 2019, but a wider internet-based public has only had access to a pair of video trailers, some screenshots and minimal written details on official sites and product pages. Silksong was initially conceived as a DLC/expansion for the base game, but the designers expanded their project's scope - thus creating a standalone and entirely new entry in the series. It seems that the development team's ambitions have grown over the years - Griffin has not confirmed a revised release date but requests that fans wait for further announcements: "Expect more details from us once we get closer to release."



Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! The sequel to the award winning action-adventure. Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.


Become the Princess Knight
Play as Hornet, princess-protector of Hallownest, and adventure through a whole new kingdom ruled by silk and song! Captured and brought to this unfamiliar world, Hornet must battle foes and solve mysteries as she ascends on a deadly pilgrimage to the kingdom's peak.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the award winning action-adventure. As the lethal hunter Hornet, journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover ancient secrets tied to your nature and your past.

Hollow Knight: Silksong's planned release platforms are: PC, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch.

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They can take as long as they need. It will be an instant purchase from me the day it launches.
 

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DLC turned into a full game and delayed again. Any longer and they will miss any opportunities left to hold onto the fanbase. Now its easy to get a Hollow knight fix from other developers.
 
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DLC turned into a full game and delayed again. Any longer and they will miss any opportunities left to hold onto the fanbase. Now its easy to get a Hollow knight fix from other developers.
What are your top three alternatives? I'm loving these Metroid-souls platformers on Steam Deck, and I've already played both Ori games, Broforce, STFU, Battleblock Theatre, and plenty of even older ones.
 
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