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Inverse

"Share this to scare Team Cherry": Dev of gorgeous roguelike with bosses "built like MMO raid encounters" declares war on contact damage, quickly adds "Silksong is great, and so is Team Cherry"

Getting hit without getting hit can be a bummer sometimes

GamesRadar

It took 8 hours of losing to find my favorite thing about Hollow Knight: Silksong

Opinion | A boss fight so fun it changed my perspective

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One little bug has broken Hollow Knight: Silksong speedrunning wide open with the ability to fly through the game as an unkillable god

Infinite silk, infinite possibilities.

PC Gamer

Is 2025 the year when indies truly took over gaming?

2025 is the Year of Indies, and I hope every year continues down that path.

Destructoid

Silksong is crushing Hollow Knight sales with 6 million downloads after 4 weeks, analyst reports – 4 million on Steam alone

That is a lot of bench tax money

GamesRadar

After the September Silksong Stampede, now October has too many games: dev delays sequel to a lovely roguelike because "it has become too crowded" and "even the most precious gem can be overlooked"

I'm moonlighting as someone with time to play every video game

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Hollow Knight: Silksong sicko laughs in the face of the difficulty discourse, completes the metroidvania without taking a single hit because "it did not seem that bad"

I haven't even beaten it yet

GamesRadar

Team Cherry publishing boss advises concerned Silksong players to report scam ad spoiling the final boss and promising a magical world where you can download games without internet

Turns out Silksong is not the next mobile hit

GamesRadar

Heroic tinkerer revives Windows 7 and gets Steam and Silksong running on it, so take that Microsoft and your constant nagging to upgrade to Win11

If anyone needs me I'll be installing XP.

PC Gamer

There's a Silksong mod to double every boss in the game, in case it was getting too easy

The way it was meant to be played?

PC Gamer

Elden Ring saxophone slayer is "almost done" playing Silksong with his improbable controller, skillfully doot-ing his way through one of the most painful platforming sections

Hollow Knight and Doot

GamesRadar

Hollow Knight: Silksong fears were wrong, and September game sales prove it

It's still a major landmark in the industry.

Destructoid

Brain-breaking challenge run sees one player beat Silksong and Hollow Knight bosses at the same time on one controller: "I think it probably just gets harder from here on out"

How…?

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PC Gamer

I just beat Silksong's Act 3, and I'm not just thrilled the game was was hard—I'm glad it was mean to me, too

Bench (im)press.

GamesRadar

The biggest problem with Silksong, and the reason its Steam reviews are this low, is getting a fix: Team Cherry says terrible Chinese translation has a new script coming, recommends using a mod for now

Hollow Knight: Silksong's famously bad Chinese version will be replaced

Windows Central

Xbox Game Pass reaches largest investment to date in 2025 — and the majority of partners want to continue signing new games

According to ID@Xbox lead Chris Charla, 2025 is the largest-ever year for Xbox Game Pass investment to date.

GamesRadar

Silksong patch 2 is out, and it fixes a bug that nearly caused me to roll back my save file by 3 miserable hours

Getting cursed is no joke in Hollow Knight: Silksong

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GamesRadar

If you somehow reach Silksong's Citadel or even Act 3 without buying the game-changing map quill from Shakra, Team Cherry rewards you with a secret cosmetic that does nothing

Thank you, Team Cherry, for this Hollow Knight: Silksong gift

PC Gamer

Silksong sickos have already painstakingly determined the DPS of every crest in the game, and you might want to switch off Reaper

Pure numbers aren't everything, though, and the Architect is proof of that.

PC Gamer

Weeks after Silksong's launch I can't stop thinking about this streamer's masterful troll campaign against its fans: 'They made a whole game about getting to your car but you don't have car keys, and you're excited for that?'

Northernlion's good-natured ribbing of his audience has had a frequent Hollow Knight refrain since Silksong's launch.

GamesRadar

Team Cherry explains the Silksong development process that was so fun devs just couldn't stop: "If you're trying to build a Mario level, you might take an empty space and think, oh, should there be a few platforms here?"

A look into the Hollow Knight sequel's production

PC Gamer

This metroidvania based on an old Atari 2600 classic had the audacity to release on the same day as Silksong, but it's a nice break from Hornet's hell

Adventure of Samsara is a solid 7/10 metroidvania for days when you need one of those.

GamesRadar

Silksong's first area was only added after Team Cherry realized it needed a softer intro: "We're trying to be kind of respectful to the player. We're not trying to baby them"

But not too soft

PC Gamer

Exhausted by Silksong? This breezier twin-stick spin on old school Metroid might just be the genre's second best this year

Zexion is still hard, but ample checkpoints and boss retries alleviate the usual frustrations.

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