At time of writing, it has been 2,395 days since Silksong was first announced on February 14, 2019. In the years since, spanning stretches of developer silence and shifting release windows, the Hollow Knight sequel was steadily warped into an inscrutable object of collective fascination. Silksong was less an upcoming game than it was a singularity of attention, continually accreting interest while emitting nothing back.
And now it's out. You can play it. There are bugs in it and you can fight them.
