Team Cherry has explained why Hollow Knight: Silksong went without updates for years during its lengthy development cycle. After almost a decade of work, the game is set to release on September 4 2025.
Fans had long speculated about the reasons for the silence, with many questioning whether the game was still in active development.
Speaking to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Team Cherry’s Ari Gibson and William Pellen outlined why they stopped providing progress reports and what kept the project going for so long.
“We’ve been having fun,” Gibson said. “This whole thing is just a vehicle for our creativity anyway. It’s nice to make fun things.” He explained that the game was never stuck, but as a small team, development naturally took longer. “It was always progressing. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.”
Pellen added that the scope of Silksong continued to expand as they kept adding new ideas. “That stuff’s so nice. It’s for the sake of just completing the game that we’re stopping. We could have kept going,” he said.
The developers last shared a formal update in 2019 before going silent for years, something that left fans frustrated.
Gibson explained that they chose not to provide regular updates because they felt it would harm anticipation. “We felt like continued updates were just going to sour people on the whole thing. Because all we could really say is, ‘We’re still working on it.’”
Pellen noted that it was better to focus on finishing the game rather than “popping up and bugging people for the sake of it.”
Initially, the team expected only a short gap before release, but the project grew larger than anticipated.
Hollow Knight: Silksong will launch on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 5 on September 4 2025.
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