Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Team Cherry Confirms It's Working on DLC — but It Doesn't Know When It Will Come Out

Hollow Knight: Silksong developer Team Cherry has confirmed it’s moving connected DLC — but it doesn’t cognize erstwhile it volition travel out.

In an interrogation with Bloomberg, Team Cherry co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen said that portion the developers bash not program to instrumentality “an excessive magnitude of time” gathering this caller contented for Silksong, “we inactive are pursuing the aforesaid improvement philosophy, which sometimes tin grow our timeframe.”

It took 7 years for Silksong to travel out, truthful who knows erstwhile this enigma DLC volition beryllium released? But Team Cherry did tease it volition diagnostic the Steel Assassin, a quality shown successful a anterior trailer but who has yet to amusement up successful Silksong itself.

Here’s the applicable speech with Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier:

Do you privation to bash a premix of smaller updates similar Lifeblood, oregon are you reasoning bigger worldly similar Godmaster and Grimm Troupe? Is determination a cadence you person successful mind?

Gibson: In elemental presumption yes, we’d beryllium reasoning astir antithetic things arriving astatine antithetic scales. That mightiness mean larger things similar Godmaster. Certainly, we’ve noticed that radical would similar an enlargement successful that way, being capable to participate pantheon spaces and refight bosses. And determination is already a immense fig of them.

Pellen: We were talking astir the adjacent task successful general. We’re not reasoning astir the size. We conscionable started making caller worldly and moving connected bits and pieces. We’re inactive successful this world, reasoning astir worldly to contiguous to people.

Gibson: It is absorbing moving retired however you grow an already immense game, to marque definite you don’t wholly overwhelm caller players, due to the fact that evidently caller players volition beryllium experiencing the caller stuff, precise people integrated. It’ll conscionable look similar the basal experience. Some of that mightiness mean uncovering ways to fell distant the access, due to the fact that different perchance by the extremity of the our expansions and developments it would conscionable beryllium gargantuan.

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