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Hollow Knight devs highlight a big difference between their sequel and most Metroidvanias: "The player's choice about where to go in Silksong is not dictated by what power-ups you currently have"

"It's a specific kind of lock-and-key type of progression"

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Team Cherry hopes "if there were ever" new Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they could "just exist alongside one another" so the order you play them doesn't matter

Ari Gibson and William Pellen ponder a hypothetical Hollow Knight 3

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The Game Awards 2025 nominees are now live with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leading the show in 12 categories, along with Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong – here's the list and how to vote

The Game Awards 2025 nominations have been announced, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dominates the categories as the most-nominated game in the show's history.

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The Game Awards Releases Complete List of Nominees Ahead of December 11 Ceremony

The Game Awards have finally announced the full list of nominees ahead of the awarding ceremony taking place on December 11.

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The Game Awards 2025 nominees are here, and—surprise—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was nominated for every qualifying category

Can you feel it? The distant thunder of the oncoming takes?

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Lore hero condenses all of Silksong, including a cut ending, into a lightweight 77 minutes: "THE SACRED TEXTS ARE HERE"

Bring some popcorn

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In defiance of god and Team Cherry, players mod the Knight from Hollow Knight into Silksong: "Most bosses are pretty easy it turns out"

It's him, the Hollow Knight

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Silksong "was much harder when I did it," says Team Cherry tester who also voiced Trobbio: "It was almost entirely nerfs to bosses that I got put in"

Matt Trobbiani got to playtest Silksong and voice his namesake boss

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Well, I have to play Silksong again because of this impressive voiced mod that lets Hornet sing Sherma's song in place of the needolin

Hornet's got a decent set of pipes, it turns out

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"I do not know how the guys did Silksong for so many years without this": Dead Cells creators say Steam early access was "always the plan" for new roguelike Windblown because that's just how they make games

Motion Twin's new game Windblown was always going to be an early access project

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New Hollow Knight: Silksong patch looks to improve its Simplified Chinese translation among other fixes

The latest Hollow Knight: Silksong patch brings overhauled Simplified Chinese translation following launch backlash.

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Better hurry and finish your 100% Silksong playthrough, because I've found another must-play Metroidvania coming next month, and it has one of the best demos in Steam Next Fest

Well, Constance is outstanding

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New Silksong patch nerfs my favorite Hornet Silk Skill but makes up for it with bug fixes aplenty, including out-of-bounds issues and a softlock

Thread Storm, my beloved

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Silksong modders beat Team Cherry at sadism, lay the groundwork for the quest to beat the whole game as naked Hornet: "Her kick damage is like, 1/5 of a default nail"

Cloakless Crest Hornet challenge runs when?

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When does difficulty become un-fun? Dev says their game has moments of "intentional bulls***" but the trick to difficulty is making the player feel it's their fault they failed

Interview | Baby Steps gives you full control over your own failures

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Silksong player smacks one of its toughest bosses until they turn off, flawlessly defeating them in just 35 seconds

The most embarrassing way to lose.

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Madman modder takes one of Silksong's worst bosses and makes them even harder: 'This is seriously mucked up'

Savage Beastfly 3: Reloaded

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Silksong player pops the hood, checks the gauges, and determines the best silk skill is one you get very early on: "This should surprise absolutely nobody"

Thread Storm is the DPS king by a country mile

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The 43rd Golden Joystick Awards shortlist is out, and just looking at the indie list alone, I can tell it's going to be a tough year

I forgot just how stacked this year has been.

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Hero 100% beats Silksong using a saxophone as a gamepad, says it's not even the hardest game he's sax'd

Doot.

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"Insanely hard" Silksong true ending speedrun world record is somehow already under 4 hours: "We have to do the entire game with 5 masks and 2 needle upgrades"

"I think, realistically, a 3:50 is pretty possible," says speedrunner BlueSR

I review games for a living – here are my 3 favourite 2D action games of 2025

Splendid side-scrolling awaits in three of the best 2D games of 2025

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It's possible to get Silksong's double jump in Act 1 well before you're supposed to, you just have to be enough of a platforming god to prove you don't need it

The route looks like a controller-snapping good time.

TechRadar

I've completed Hollow Knight: Silksong, and it isn't as impossibly hard as people say it is

At the end of my journey through Pharloom I’m more certain than ever: Silksong doesn’t need to be easier.

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I've played all the biggest games out in September and these are the ones that are actually worth the money

I've played all the big games out this month, and these are the very best.

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