It looks like Team Cherry wants to test how much you are really looking forward to Hollow Knight: Silksong by making it playable this September... exclusively at a museum in its home country of Australia. Via IGN, it's revealed the indie game will be part of an exhibition at the ACMI museum in Melbourne from 18th September 2025.
It's appearing there as part of a Game Worlds exhibit, which will include displays covering the title's design and artistic direction. "Since Hollow Knight: Silksong's initial announcement in 2019, it has been one of the most anticipated indie games on the planet – and we are thrilled to celebrate the design of this South Australian-made game as a centrepiece of Game Worlds in September," said co-curators Bethan Johnson and Jini Maxwell.
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An unexpected update after years of secrecy from the developer, Hollow Knight: Silksong was listed for a 2025 release in the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct last month. If the game is publicly playable in a museum from mid-September onwards, you'd think the full game should be out by then — or a demo of some sort at least.
With the summer season of gaming announcements — including Summer Game Fest — now just over a month away, it's possible a Hollow Knight: Silksong release date is part of one of the upcoming livestreams. You can see a sprite screen provided to IGN for the exhibit through the link.
[source ign.com]
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It would be funny if Team Cherry released Silksong on the same day GTA 6 launches as one last troll move.
Sounds like it's time to book a flight
ACMI is awesome! They had a bunch of awesome concept art of environments from the first Hollow Knight and a bunch of awesome exhibits from Aussie made stuff like Untitled Goose Game, Memoir of a Snail and The Lego Movie.
Lmao at this being one of the few bits of info about Silksong in years tho
Yeah this game must really be vaporware if it's being released only in a country that doesn't exist.
Honestly this game has taken so long to make that at this point, and so many metroidvania games have flooded the medium, that this will never live up to the hype. There are so many good metroidvanias now, and they all just blur into one another now because they all do the same thing.
It's to the point for me where I liked the first one, but I have zero interest in this sequel now, merely because there are too many of these that are all the same game with varying art styles.
Really hoping we get a release date at Summer Game Fest. Super excited for it.
Time to pull a Thomas Crown Affair down under.
This is one game for which the hype has never died down for me. The art style, the combat, the music, the bosses, the progression. All of it is nearly perfect in execution. Silksong, with what little they have shown off, looks even more fluid in its combat and aesthetically stylish. I'll be there Day 1 WHENEVER this game comes out.
The first one took too long to get back to some of the bosses after dying. Made me stop playing it. Its a shame because it was really good except for that.
@MrSensical I loved the museum when popping by during PAX. I must've gone through it 4 times. Based on the timing of the game now, I might get to give it a go during this year's PAX.
We'll get GTA 6 before we get this.
Huh. I'd forgotten it was made in Australia. As a Melburnian, I suppose I should get around to playing Hollow Knight and possibly checking this out.
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