It’s mildly shocking that Hollow Knight was just $15 when it came to PC back in 2017. It’s even more surprising that eight years and over a million Steam wishlists later, the sequel is only $5 more. Team Cherry has confirmed Silksong‘s final price and launch times cementing this upcoming week as the official kick-off of the 2025 fall video game release blitz.
While most games have gone up $10 or more in the jump to the current console generation, Hollow Knight: Silksong is aggressively going against the grain with just a $20 price tag on Steam and elsewhere. Team Cherry only officially confirmed the amount on Sunday night after a weekend of speculation following leaks on GameSpot and elsewhere.
The move has won Team Cherry tons of additional good will with fans who were already praising it for withholding review copies so that Kickstarter backers would still be among the first to get access to the game. Plenty of players commenting on the latest pricing announcement still can’t understand why the game isn’t more.
— Kalrim Frosthill (@KalrimFrosthill) September 1, 2025
“Make it $40 or I’m not buying,” joked one. Others recalled co-director Ari Gibson’s previous defense of charging so little for the first game, noting the development team’s desire for as many people as possible to play the game. And with 15 million copies sold of the original Hollow Knight, Team Cherry has the flexibility to make that happen.
In retrospect, it’s also wild to think one of the biggest games of the year only had a placeholder in the pre-order box until now. Maybe discussions were still ongoing within the team. After all, fellow indie darlings like Supergiant Games’ Hades 2 are currently $30 and likely to cost even more at the end of Early Access (the studio behind Bastion and Transistor seems to be doing us all a favor by waiting to launch its own sequel until later in the fall).
What time does Silksong go live on Steam?
While the September 4 release date for Silksong has been known for just over a week now, it wasn’t entirely clear exactly when the game would go live until today. Alongside the price, Team Cherry also confirmed the launch time for each time zone:
- 7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST
That suggests everyone across PC and console will begin getting to play Hollow Knight sequel at roughly the same time. The
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