Summary
Hollow Knightfans have been through the ringer this year, as every big gaming event passes by without a single mention ofSilksongto be seen. The only time that Silksong is actually mentioned, it’s usually topoke fun at the perpetually tormented fanbase, or to let fans knownot to get their hopes up and to start lowering expectations.
Fans have been trawling social media for the smallest hints of some official news, and earlier today, it seemed as though Steam had provided. First spotted byReddit user Frequent-Rest-2171(thanksGamesRadar), an official update on Steam’s backend appeared to imply that Silksong had recently been undergoing “beta testing.“After a quick trip to SteamDB, fans began getting their hopes up once they discovered this wasn’t one of the Silksong subreddit’s cruel practical jokes.
In that same Reddit thread, you’ll find dozens of fans hoping that this might be the small update that we’ve all been hoping for, with the discovery described as “huge,” along with plenty of skepticism about it even being real in the first place. This is a very understandably jaded fanbase.
Hollow Knight: Silksong’s Steam Update Was Too Good To Be True
Unfortunately, that hope was pretty short-lived, as it was quickly discovered after a bit of research that this update wasn’t added to Silksong’s SteamDB page by Team Cherry, but by Valve itself. It seems as though Valve made automatic updates to tens of thousands of different titles, and Silksong was simply swept up in the bunch. All that renewed hope on the subreddit quickly turned into bitter disappointment, as the same person that thought the update could be huge is now “back to coping.”
We know that Silksong isn’t some kind of shared hallucination, as Team Cherry’s head of marketing and publishing - Matthew Griffin -let fans know the game is “still in development,“but it seems as though the wait for even a crumb of official news goes on. It has to be next year though, right?
Hollow Knight: Silksong
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Hollow Knight: Silksong is the long-awaited sequel to the 2017 hit Metroidvania, develeoped by Team Cherry. In it, you play the titular hero, who must battle their way through a bug-infested kingdom.
