In Gamescom 2025, after a year and a half of the media, the Australian study team reached the present Caballero Hollow SilksongAnd by the way, it reveals the release date: September 4, 2025. A sudden arrival that aroused a lot of interest from the players, who expected to see the game landed on PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Switch for eight years.
To understand how a game has become one of the most “desire list” on the Steam distribution platform, it must return to the origins of the series, which was born in 2017.
A success that exceeds all expectations
Released in the form of a Kickstarter project that had compiled in 2014 only 57,000 Australian dollars (around 32,000 euros), the game will experience significant madness in its launch, exceeding the expectations of its developers selling more than 15 million copies. A real phenomenon that began on PC, but that experienced a boom with the switch version at a time when independent games were sold as hotcakes.
Many have discovered in Hollow gentleman “Metroidvania” (a genre created by the video game series Metroid) last. In other words, a labyrinthine adventure game, where certain areas are only accessible thanks to a power that is unlocked later, inviting to return to your steps. The difficulty is there without being particularly problematic. In Steam, the successes that represent the first half of the game were launched by more than 60% of the players, which is not common.
In the months and years after the launch of the original game, several free extensions add giant content to the world ofHollow gentleman Who places us at the place of an insectoid knight, who leaves to explore the kingdom of Hallownest.
Through different biomes, we can discover the origins of a scourge that sank these previously prosperous lands into a complete agony. The civilizations that previously populated the facilities have given way to the monsters that, therefore, will have to fight.
Public and critical success, Hollow gentleman It also promotes the Australian independent scene at a completely different level, which benefits the transition from the reduction of video game restrictions. The country of the country was seen as particularly strict (several games were prohibited due to their context).
A sequel we expected more
In August 2018, Team Cherry will publish the final extension, Pastorthat immerses the players in a multitude of fights against hard bosses. This difficulty will make the title of the title on transmission platforms such as Twitch, where the community is heard.
Just six months later, Australia’s study announced to work in a new episode. First designed as another extension of the original game, Silksong It becomes a complete title, driven by the crazy ambitions of its creators: “Everything was a way of giving free rein to our creativity. It is nice to create fun things,” they explain in an interview with Bloomberg in August 2025.
This time, there is no insectoid knight, but Hornet. An old boss of Hollow gentleman Which helps a needle for more vertical fights than ever.
In 2019, when the game is presented through a playable demonstration in the Nintendo stand in E3, nobody knows that it will be necessary to wait six years to finally be able to touch it again. Because if Team Cherry is shown at the beginning, the study immerses himself in silence a few months later to reappear only sporadically. The COVID-19 crisis reveals the worst, but the signs of life persist.
It was not until June 2022 to know that the title will be launched in the game pass, the Microsoft subscription game service, since its launch. In September of the same year, the game was confirmed in PlayStation 4 and 5 (in addition to the versions of PC, Xbox and Switch). Scheduled for 2023, it is postponed, before being confirmed by 2025 also on Switch 2.
It was in June 2025 that hope resumed more beautiful. Caballero Hollow: Silksong He is the guest of the brand of the first Xbox portable console. The manufacturer then confirms that the game “will be released by the end of the year.” Just two months later, the launch was confirmed on September 4.
A game that has the power to repel others
This adventure as tumultuous as the original game has aroused the attention of the general public, and not only so anxious for difficult epics of Dark souls. 4.6 million people added it to their desire list in Steam, unheard of in the history of the platform. By way of comparison, Battlefield 6 It has only been added by 2 million users.
Presented in the form of demonstration to Gamescom 2025, both in the Xbox and Nintendo stand, the game is taken by visitors by storm, to the point that journalists have trouble accessing it: “To try SilksongIt was necessary to make an appointment with the QR codes, “explains Critix, Ign France journalist during the Multijueurs program.
The queues are such that they are closed early in the afternoon, they cannot welcome people.
The buzzing awakened by Caballero Hollow: Silksong He dedicated himself, even in competition. The month of September is particularly rich in the launch games, but several titles of the independent scene preferred to change their launch, very aware that it would not have media attention or that of the players. This is the case with Little Witch in WoodD ‘Aeterna Lucis either Escoldia. The study behind Steps He did not make mystery of the postponement to September 23 by publishing a video with the hero of Team Cherry.
“No one expected this sudden exit of Caballero Hollow: Silksong“Specifies CritiIx”. It is the GTA 6 India, “even cowardly Melinda Davan-Souls, a Tech & Co journalist in the multiple players show, referring to the many games that have moved or advanced so as not to reach the posts at the same time as the super production of Rockstar.
If Team Cherry has not sent code to the press, as usual, the suspense is at its peak to find out if this suite will have all the promises of its old man. And even if we will be careful not to draw plans on the kite in terms of sales figures, with respect to expectations, it would not be surprising to see Caballero Hollow: Silksong Become one of the biggest sales of the year 2025 … before delighting the title of “Game of the Year” in the Games Awards in December?
Source: BFM TV
