Hollow Knight: Silksong's Price and Global Launch Timing Have Been Revealed

Hollow Knight: Silksong volition retail for conscionable $19.99.

While there's been a batch of rumors implicit the past fewer days — including a $20 terms connected Gamestop (since removed) that was aboriginal corroborated by noted leaker Billbil-kun — developer Team Cherry has present confirmed it, revealing the crippled volition retail for $19.99 successful the U.S., €19.99 successful Europe, and ¥2300 successful Japan.

It's an eye-catching price, not slightest due to the fact that galore publishers are softly investigating much and much costly games. Xbox precocious priced the highly-anticipated The Outer Worlds 2 for $80 — the archetypal of its games to interruption the emblematic $70 ceiling — but aft a furious backlash, ended up dropping the pre-order terms to $70 "in enactment with existent marketplace conditions."

That's not all, either. The squad besides revealed precisely erstwhile we'll get to play it, too: 7am PT, 10am ET, 4pm CEST, and 11pm JST.

Team Cherry yet revealed a merchandise day for the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong astatine gamescom: September 4, 2025. We learned the quality via a astir two-minute caller trailer dropped by Team Cherry, which showed a ton of caller footage from the game. We spot Hornet exploring, loads of caller insectoid NPCs, dreary graveyards, swamps, a bustling city, caller enemies, caller bosses, an Ori-style flight sequence, and more. It'll beryllium disposable connected PC, Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series.

At the aforesaid time, we learned the archetypal crippled has managed to apical 15 cardinal copies sold, a uncommon feat so for an autarkic game. And possibly not coincidentally, Hollow Knight, 8 years post-release, has repeatedly deed all-time precocious concurrent subordinate counts connected Steam (per SteamDB) implicit the past 2 weeks, topping 70K conscionable this past weekend.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is presently the astir wishlisted crippled connected Steam, but is it really amusive to play? We tried retired 2 levels from the Hollow Knight Silksong demo astatine gamescom 2025, Moss Grotto and Deep Docks. One was casual one, and 1 was precise challenging, but does it unrecorded up to the hype? Find retired successful our Hollow Knight: Silksong preview from the amusement floor.

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