Team Cherry has finally, at long last, confirmed that Hollow Knight: Silksong is not only a real game, but that it will be available to play on September 4. That is soon. The game will be available to buy outright at launch, but will it also come to any subscription services, like Xbox Game Pass?
Yes, Hollow Knight: Silksong will be on Game Pass.
Microsoft and Team Cherry have confirmed an Xbox Game Pass release for the highly anticipated game. It will be available via Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, so subscribers can play it across console and PC. Alternatively, people can get Silksong via PC Game Pass for PC-only access.
It’s possible Silksong could come to the less-expensive Game Pass tiers, like Game Pass Standard and Game Pass Core, at some point down the road–but this is not confirmed. If it ever does, it likely wouldn’t be soon.
2017’s Hollow Knight is currently available on Xbox Game Pass, or it can be purchased for $15. Hollow Knight is also available via Sony’s PlayStation Plus Extra Game Catalogue.
There is no indication that Silksong could launch into PlayStation Plus. If it ever comes to PlayStation Plus, it probably won’t be anytime soon. Nintendo, meanwhile, generally doesn’t do day-one new releases for Nintendo Switch Online for third-party games.
A long wait
Silksong was originally designed to be an expansion to Hollow Knight before developer Team Cherry built it out further and converted it to a full standalone game. After morphing to a full game in 2019, the developers went largely silent, and there was such little news in the ensuing years that the game prompted some fans to worry if the game was real at all or if it might be stuck in development hell.
As it turns out, the developers maintain that development was always progressing and that the enormous commercial success of Hollow Knight afforded them the opportunity to take their time with Silksong.
Silksong resurfaced this week at Gamescom in Germany, and it’s proving to be very popular, with long lines snaking through the convention center for a chance to play the highly anticipated game.
“Hollow Knight: Silksong appears to be exactly what we all should have expected: a strong, well-designed, visually lovely game that carries forward the aesthetic and design philosophies of the original with thoughtful, if not earth-shattering, updates,” Steve Watts wrote after going hands-on with Silksong at Gamescom this week.
Silksong may not be a big, mainstream AAA game, but it has a lot of hype and pent-up demand behind it, so much so that at least three developers have delayed upcoming projects, citing Silksong.
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