Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight: Silksong, have revealed the key reason why they stopped giving development updates on the long-awaited game.
After a decade of development, Hollow Knight: Silksong finally has a release date: September 4, 2025.
Fans of the series have had a few questions for the developers over the years, including why it took so long to develop and why Team Cherry stopped issuing updates on its progress years before it resurfaced again in 2025.
In an interview with Bloomberg’s Jason Schrier, Team Cherry’s Ari Gibson and William Pellen revealed why they stopped updating fans on Silksong’s progress, and why it took so long to release the game.
Team Cherry was having too much fun
“We’ve been having fun,” Gibson told Bloomberg. “This whole thing is just a vehicle for our creativity anyway. It’s nice to make fun things.”
“It was never stuck or anything. It was always progressing. It’s just the case that we’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.”
Pellen added that they just kept creating new things for Silksong, and the game kept growing. He said: “That stuff’s so nice. It’s for the sake of just completing the game that we’re stopping. We could have kept going.”
The team posted an update on Silksong’s development progress at the end of 2019, but went silent for years afterwards, leaving fans confused and wondering if it would ever actually release.
But Gibson says they stopped updates because they felt it would “sour people” on the release.
“We felt like continued updates were just going to sour people on the whole thing,” Gibson told Bloomberg. “Because all we could really say is, ‘We’re still working on it.’”
Pellen added: “Instead of popping up and bugging people for the sake of it, it felt like our actual responsibility was just to work on the game. Probably at the time, we thought we’d go quiet for a year or two, then the game would come out.”
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