Hollow Knight: Silksong will launch sometime in 2025.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is real and coming in 2025, but you'll have to wait longer still for a release date. Delivering on a tease from earlier this week, Hollow Knight: Silksong opened proceedings at Gamescom ONL, with host Geoff Keighley revealing that the highly anticipated metroidvania will launch in 2025.

Gamescom’s Opening Night Live is finally on its way, offering a variety of new game announcements, and one of them could be Silksong.

Silksong is sure to appear at gamescom 2025, but fans have further reason to believe in some sort of announcement about the game during the opening ceremony of the German fair.

Team Cherry’s long-awaited Metroidvania sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, finally looks set for a re-reveal at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live today. Silksong has been the subject of significant fan anticipation since its announcement six years ago, with virtually every major game show prompting speculation that it could finally reappear.

Silksong, the upcoming sequel to the highly anticipated 2D action Metroidvania developed by Team Cherry. Get more information regarding the release date soon for Hollow Knight: Silksong, launching in 2025.

Fans of FromSoftware's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice are in for a treat, as an official anime adaptation of the 2019 game is in the works. Announced during Gamescom 2025 and produced by ARCH, Sekiro: No Defeat will directly adapt the story from the game with fully hand-drawn art. The anime series will be streamed exclusively on Crunchyroll.

Ahead of Gamescom 2025, I asked the team the immortal question "Hollow Knight Silksong?" and all about its plans for this year's event.

Skongposting has infiltrated the upper echelons of Gamescom due to the highly-plausible presence of Hollow Knight: Silksong. And like any good eldritch being, its worshipers must wear the cult's uniform. Behold: Geoff Keighley, the clown.

Gamescom 2025 officially begins with the Opening Night Live show in the evening of August 19, 2025. The trade fair, held at the Koelnmesse exhibition center in Cologne, will then open its doors the following day on August 20, though only for trade visitors, members of the media, creators, and other specific ticket holders.