In a recent Bloomberg interview with studio founders Ari Gibson and William Penn by Jason Schreier, Team Cherry confirmed that Hollow Knight: Silksong will receive new content in the form of DLC, just like Hollow knight. However, the development time and release date is currently unknown. “We didn’t plan seven years for Silksong. Not that we expect to take an excessive amount of time,” said Gibson. “but we still are pursuing the same development philosophy, which sometimes can expand our timeframe.”
“In the way we think about these little expansions, or even the elements of the main game,” he continued. “Now there might be more of a sense that we want story structures around them that weren’t present in some of the Hollow Knight expansions. We added a few extra bosses, but the framing around it was all fairly simplistic. If we add stuff now, because Hornet has this voice and mind, we want to find out what she thinks about this stuff. Once you start having her think about this stuff, story starts to happen, and then that could increase the scale of any expansion we did.”
The founders also revealed that the studio has other games it plans to make. “And then we do have other games that we plan to make,” said Penn. “The only time concern really is — and we’ve talked about this before — death.” Hollow Knight: Silksong is available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, Humble Store, and Microsoft Store. In the game, players play as Hornet who “must battle foes and solve mysteries as she ascends on a deadly pilgrimage to the kingdom’s peak.”
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