Team Cherry’s long-awaited Metroidvania game Hollow Knight: Silksong will be revealed again in April, if the many crazy cake posts on Reddit are to be believed. The standard practice when writing such fan theories is to take you through them step by step, revealing the layers like Inspector Clouseau. But I know you’re a busy person, so I’ll put it all in one sentence: Twitter account posing as developer Silksong posted a tweet that apparently anticipates the Switch 2 announcement, using a profile picture of some cake taken from a cookbook published on April 2, 2024, exactly one year before April 2, 2025, which is the date of the Nintendo Direct announced in the Switch 2 announcement .
A conclusion comes to mind mentioned reddits is that we will finally see Silksong on April 2, 2025 – because after all, if the tweeter was right about the Switch 2 announcement, it means that Silksong is a Switch 2 game and will form part of the console’s launch presentation. You can read a longer, more elegant version of all this at Eurogamer.
Perhaps you’re having trouble remembering what the hell Silksong is, beyond the endlessly collapsing core of a storm of competing signifiers. It’s the sequel to Hollow Knight, remember? They announced it in 2019. Oh, what an innocent time.
The game features Hornet, a character from Hollow Knight, and tells the story of a journey upwards through “coral forests, mossy caves, gilded cities and misty moors”, where Hollow Knight would venture lower and lower. In 2019, Team Cherry promised up-to-date abilities and tools and over “150 new enemies.” It seems likely that a lot will change – five years in gamedev is quite a long time. Here’s everything we know about Silksong at the time of writing.
Will we get some decent footage of Silksong on the huge Switcheroo in April? Maybe even a release date? I’m less convinced, not because I have insider knowledge, but simply because I played Portal.
