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During development, Hollow Knight devs kept costs low with leftover lunches at their tiny office, and then the game sold 15 million copies: “My dad would sometimes pop up and give me $20"

12 million of those copies were sold after Silksong was announced

GamesRadar · Aug 22, 2025

The Hollow Knight: Silksong arc needs to be studied and remembered: a small team of happy devs were just "having fun" making their game, not burning out, while the internet imploded

The Hollow Knight: Silksong arc needs to be studied and remembered: a small team of happy devs were just "having fun" making their game, not burning out, while the internet imploded

Opinion | Sometimes the most boring explanation is the best one

GamesRadar · Aug 21, 2025

Hollow Knight Silksong took 7 years to create because it’s just too fun, devs say: ‘A vehicle for our creativity’

Hollow Knight Silksong took 7 years to create because it’s just too fun, devs say: ‘A vehicle for our creativity’

The devs had so much fun and ideas that implementing all of them would've taken 15 years.

Destructoid · Aug 21, 2025

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Why did Team Cherry's devs stay so quiet about Hollow Knight: Silksong? 'All we could really say is, we're still working on it', so they stopped doing that

"At the time we thought we'd go quiet for a year or two, then the game would come out."

PC Gamer · Aug 21, 2025

Hollow Knight: Silksong devs never read YouTube or Reddit comments, but they're aware a community of increasingly desperate Silkposters is out there: "Feels like we’re going to ruin their fun by releasing the game"

"They’ve obviously formed their own strange or very exciting communities around it"

GamesRadar · Aug 21, 2025

Silksong devs say there was no dev hell, only dev heaven: they've been quiet to avoid "bugging people," once thought it would be out in "a year or two," and "could have kept going" but also want to see this thing finished

"We've been having fun"

GamesRadar · Aug 21, 2025

Hollow Knight devs originally wanted to make a "very small" Metroidvania and debated shaving $5,000 off its Kickstarter goal days before it went live

Hollow Knight was at one point planned to be "like two hours or something"

GamesRadar · Apr 12, 2025

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"Nintendo has been really good at supporting us": Hollow Knight dev Team Cherry has been on Nintendo's side for at least 7 years, so it's no wonder Silksong is immediately launching on Switch 2

"Nintendo has been really good at supporting us": Hollow Knight dev Team Cherry has been on Nintendo's side for at least 7 years, so it's no wonder Silksong is immediately launching on Switch 2

Team Cherry seems to have been Team Nintendo for a long time

GamesRadar · Apr 9, 2025

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