Hole Knight: Silksong’s first large growth has been revealed by developer Staff Cherry.
Teased for 2026, Hole Knight: Silksong – Sea of Sorrow guarantees new areas, bosses, and instruments as “Hornet’s adventures proceed in our nautically themed growth, coming free for all gamers subsequent yr.”
Additional particulars are anticipated shortly earlier than its launch, with no particular date given. This should not come as an excessive amount of of a shock, as Silksong’s preliminary launch date wasn’t introduced till only a month earlier than it dropped after considered one of gaming’s most notorious drawn out affairs.
Alongside the announcement of the DLC, Staff Cherry additionally revealed {that a} Nintendo Swap 2 Version of the unique Hole Knight is in improvement. This improved model incorporates “all of the updates and enhancements that Silksong acquired on the platform: excessive frame-rate modes, greater resolutions, and lots of extra graphical results.”
The even higher information? If you happen to already personal Hole Knight on Swap, you can improve to this new gen model without spending a dime.
The Australian studio may even be updating all present variations of the unique Metroidvania soulslike and including options and bug fixes. If you happen to’re taking part in on PC, a few of these adjustments have already come into impact.
“PC gamers can expertise a lot of these updates proper now, through the public-beta branches on Steam and GOG, the place they’ve simply gone dwell,” a Staff Cherry weblog put up states. “That features full 16:10 and 21:9 facet ratio help for these of you with Steam Decks or ultrawide screens.”
As a part of the DLC announcement, Staff Cherry mentioned Hole Knight: silksong had offered greater than 7 million copies since happening sale in September, and had tens of millions extra taking part in on Xbox Sport Move.
“It’s a very staggering variety of gamers, greater than we may have ever anticipated (sufficient to crash all the storefronts!),” Staff Cherry mentioned. “Watching the group develop, seeing the superb artwork, the mods, the surprising methods, and the help between gamers by means of the sport’s challenges has been massively rewarding for us right here at residence. Your continued enthusiasm stays an enormous motivator as we work in the direction of increasing the sport even additional.”
Now looks as if pretty much as good a time as any to get into each Hole Knight video games, then. IGN’s Hole Knight evaluate returned a 9.4. We mentioned: “Hole Knight’s wealthy world and unbelievable depth of content material will make you need to discover its caves for dozens of hours.”
Equally, IGN’s Hole Knight: Silksong evaluate scored the sport 9/10. We mentioned: “Hole Knight: Silksong is packed filled with sharp platforming, engaging exploration, and nail-biting fight that is all unapologetically difficult in simply the fitting method.”
Simon Cardy is a Senior Editor at IGN who can primarily be discovered skulking round open world video games, indulging in Korean cinema, or despairing on the state of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Observe him on Bluesky at @cardy.bsky.social.