Silksong devs "have other games that we plan to make" that aren't just Hollow Knight, but their own deaths weigh on them: "It’s not that far off if you spend 7 years per project"

Hornet clashes with the pinstress in Hollow Knight: Silksong in a training cutscene.

We don't like to talk about it, the thing all living creatures have in common, but it's an inevitability on what seems to be an increasing number of game developers' minds as they get older: death. Apparently it comes not only for us, but also Hollow Knight studio Team Cherry

The Silksong developer describes its plans to expand beyond the Metroidvania series in a new interview with Bloomberg, though co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen worry they might die before they can ship everything they want to. After all, Silksong took seven years.