Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow Expansion Revealed, Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of Original Hollow Knight Also in Development

Hollow Knight: Silksong's archetypal large enlargement has been revealed by developer Team Cherry.

Teased for 2026, Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow promises caller areas, bosses, and tools arsenic “Hornet’s adventures proceed successful our nautically themed expansion, coming escaped for each players adjacent year.”

Further details are expected soon earlier its launch, with nary circumstantial day given. This shouldn't travel arsenic excessively overmuch of a surprise, arsenic Silksong's archetypal merchandise day wasn't announced until conscionable a period earlier it dropped aft 1 of gaming's astir infamous drawn retired affairs.

Alongside the announcement of the DLC, Team Cherry besides revealed that a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of the archetypal Hollow Knight is successful development. This improved mentation incorporates "all the updates and enhancements that Silksong received connected the platform: precocious frame-rate modes, higher resolutions, and galore further graphical effects."

The adjacent amended news? If you already ain Hollow Knight connected Switch, you'll beryllium capable to upgrade to this caller gen mentation for free.

The Australian workplace volition besides beryllium updating each existent versions of the archetypal Metroidvania soulslike and adding features and bug fixes. If you're playing connected PC, immoderate of those changes person already travel into effect.

“PC players tin acquisition galore of those updates close now, via the public-beta branches connected Steam and GOG, wherever they’ve conscionable gone live,” a Team Cherry blog station states. “That includes afloat 16:10 and 21:9 facet ratio enactment for those of you with Steam Decks oregon ultrawide monitors."

As portion of the DLC announcement, Team Cherry said Hollow Knight: silksong had sold much than 7 cardinal copies since going connected merchantability successful September, and had millions much playing connected Xbox Game Pass.

"It’s a genuinely staggering fig of players, much than we could person ever expected (enough to clang each of the storefronts!)," Team Cherry said. "Watching the assemblage grow, seeing the astonishing art, the mods, the unexpected strategies, and the enactment betwixt players done the game’s challenges has been hugely rewarding for america present astatine home. Your continued enthusiasm remains a monolithic motivator arsenic we enactment towards expanding the crippled adjacent further."

Now seems similar arsenic bully a clip arsenic immoderate to get into some Hollow Knight games, then. IGN's Hollow Knight reappraisal returned a 9.4. We said: "Hollow Knight’s affluent satellite and unthinkable extent of contented volition marque you privation to research its caves for dozens of hours."

Similarly, IGN's Hollow Knight: Silksong reappraisal scored the crippled 9/10. We said: "Hollow Knight: Silksong is packed afloat of crisp platforming, enticing exploration, and nail-biting combat that's each unapologetically challenging successful conscionable the close way."

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.