After Silksong DLC, Team Cherry Is Thinking About Making a Brand New Game Rather Than Hollow Knight 3 — Their Only Time Concern Is a Morbid One: 'Death'

Team Cherry has revealed it’s reasoning astir making a marque caller crippled alternatively than a Hollow Knight 3 — but admitted that their lone clip interest is “death.”

Co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen took 7 years to marque Silksong, the hotly anticipated follow-up to breakout deed Hollow Knight — though they didn’t program to. During a sweeping interrogation with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, successful which the duo confirmed plans for Silksong DLC, speech turned to what’s next.

It sounds similar Team Cherry has yet to determine whether to marque Hollow Knight 3 oregon a marque caller video game, but Gibson and Pellen are reasoning astir however overmuch clip they person near to marque video games astatine all.

“... we bash person different games that we program to make,” Gibson said. “The lone clip interest truly is — and we’ve talked astir this earlier — death. It’s not that acold disconnected if you walk 7 years per project, and perchance adhd different two. So it’d beryllium bully to bash a fewer much games. Apparently our timeframe inactive allows america to acceptable a fewer much in. Short of an unexpected tragedy.”

It’s a grim thought, but 1 that's been connected the minds of a fig of precocious illustration video crippled developers. In 2023, up of the merchandise of Starfield, Bethesda improvement main Todd Howard said The Elder Scrolls 6 whitethorn beryllium the past crippled successful the phantasy bid helium makes, fixed however agelong the Microsoft-owned workplace takes to marque its games.

“And past arsenic we look to an Elder Scrolls 6, that is 1 where... I astir apt shouldn't accidental this, but if I bash the math, I'm not getting immoderate younger,” Howard said. “How agelong bash radical play Elder Scrolls for? That whitethorn beryllium the past 1 I do. I don't know.”

In May, 62-year-old Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima revealed helium had thought astir his ain mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic, during which helium became precise sick. “Turning 60 was little of a turning constituent successful my beingness than my experiences during the pandemic,” helium said. “I fell earnestly sick astatine that time, and besides had an oculus operation. Until then, I didn’t deliberation I was old, you know? I conscionable didn’t consciousness my age, and I assumed I would beryllium capable to make for arsenic agelong arsenic I live.

“But past I became sick, and I couldn’t make anything. And I saw tons of radical astir maine passing distant astatine that time. I was confronted with death. Of course, I recovered, but present I was thinking, ‘Wait, however galore years bash I person near to marque a crippled oregon a film?’ Perhaps I person 10 years?”

Kojima adjacent enactment a fig of ideas connected a USB instrumentality and gave it to his adjunct during the pandemic "kind of similar a will," astatine a clip erstwhile helium was disquieted astir his studio, Kojima Productions, and making definite the unit would proceed to get paid if helium was incapable to marque games.

As for Team Cherry, Gibson and Pellen said immoderate they extremity up doing next, whether it’s a marque caller crippled oregon Hollow Knight 3, it’ll beryllium on akin lines to the games the workplace has made before.

“We person said we’ll spell elsewhere arsenic well,” Gibson said. “Although we’ve besides said those experiences volition inactive beryllium astir exploring large worlds afloat of weird characters and elephantine bosses and whatnot. So determination would beryllium a done enactment determination that radical volition beryllium acquainted with. That’s not to accidental we won’t instrumentality to these Hollow Knight worlds. We bash person ideas astir what forms those would take. But we besides don’t privation to beryllium exclusively radical that marque Hollow Knight.”

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].