US EditionHollow Knight Silksong Developers Confirm DLC Is in Development and Plan Years of Future Content
Team Cherry reveals plans for ambitious post-launch downloadable content for Hollow Knight: Silksong, following a seven-year development period fueled by creative expansion and fan expectations.
- Team Cherry announced the September 4, 2025 launch for Hollow Knight: Silksong on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and other platforms.
- Originally conceived as DLC, Silksong began as an expansion that grew into a standalone game as Team Cherry kept adding ideas and content, increasing the scope and polishing work.
- William Pellen told Bloomberg that `Launching it is obviously quite exciting` and Ari Gibson added, `The most interesting thing now is what can we add to it next`.
- Team Cherry confirmed post-launch DLC is already in development and teased additional content arriving in the months and years after launch.
- Having sold over 15 million copies of Hollow Knight, Team Cherry had the financial runway and small studio size to take their time developing Silksong.
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World NEWS LiveNow that Hollow Knight: Silksong has a release date, Team Cherry teases more to come post-launch – 'The most interesting thing now is what can we add to it next'
Team Cherry has confirmed it has plans to add new content to Hollow Knight: Silksong post-launch.
Hollow Knight Silksong hasn't even been released yet, and the developers are already thinking about the future - and possible DLC.
Silksong will get DLC and "some of the plans for that stuff are kind of ambitious as well"
Hollow Knight: Silksong began life as a DLC expansion, but then developers Team Cherry decided the concept was "too large and too unique", and upgraded it into a full game. They spent six years working on the thing in almost total silence, while fulminating legions of the terminally online quietly drove themselves bonkers hunting for release date clues. We now have a Silksong release date - it's just two weeks away - so in theory, the nightmare …
Hardly is the release date known, already Team Cherry from the first DLC speaks for Hollow Knight: Silksong - and about the whole development story.
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