Hollow Knight: Silksong's Gamescom Demo Carries The Weight…

The 2025 summer showcases gave players a lot of exciting news about games both new and old, but one major title that largely skipped the festivities was Hollow Knight: Silksong. Team Cherry's upcoming Metroidvania was announced in 2019 as a full-fledged sequel to the original Hollow Knight, but in the years that have passed since then, the game has become notoriously elusive. The last proper Hollow Knight: Silksong trailer was shown off during the 2022 Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase, where it was claimed that the game would come out within the next 12 months. Although Silksong appeared in both the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct and Xbox Games Showcase a few months ago, it didn't receive a release date or any extended gameplay footage.

Despite many fans' skepticism regarding the matter, Hollow Knight: Silksong is supposedly going to be released sometime this year. With the final months of 2025 fast approaching, fans are afraid that Hollow Knight: Silksong will be delayed into 2026 or beyond, but some recent news about Gamescom seems to make this scenario a lot less likely.

Why Any Hollow Knight: Silksong News is Bound to Be Good News

Hollow Knight: Silksong has started to pop back up at several gaming showcases, and the game's next announcement could be its biggest one yet.

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By Matt Anderson

Hollow Knight: Silksong Being Playable at Gamescom 2025 is a Big Deal

Microsoft Confirmed that Silksong Will Be Playable at Its Upcoming Gamescom Booth

Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled its plans for Gamescom 2025 on the official Xbox Wire blog. The company not only confirmed that it will be hosting Xbox @ Gamescom live broadcasts on August 20 and 21, it also revealed that it will have a booth at the convention with over 20 titles to play. One of these titles will be none other than Hollow Knight: Silksong. According to Microsoft, Gamescom attendees will be able to get their hands on a brand-new Silksong demo, which they can play on either PC or ROG Xbox Ally.

Silksong's New Demo Will Probably Contain a Lot More Content than Its Previous One

Although Microsoft and Team Cherry have not revealed any details about the contents of this Hollow Knight: Silksong demo, the fact that it even exists in the first place is surprising to say the least. The only other time that a demo of Hollow Knight: Silksong has ever been available to the public was at E3 2019, where the game showed up during Nintendo's press conference. Considering that more than six years have passed since then, it seems reasonable to assume that this new demo will be significantly different and more feature-complete than the one that was distributed in 2019.

Team Cherry has promised that Hollow Knight: Silksong will feature over 165 new enemies and twice the number of checkpoints compared to the original Hollow Knight. Since the game will seemingly have a very large scope, its demo at Gamescom will probably contain a sizable amount of content. Hollow Knight: Silksong is only a few months away from being released, so the demo will potentially allow players to experience the opening hours of the game rather than a few curated gameplay sequences.

Another Hollow Knight: Silksong Demo Will Be Available to the Public in Australia Later This Year

For those who are unable to attend Gamescom in Cologne, Germany this year, it's worth noting that a playable demo of Hollow Knight: Silksong will soon be available to the public at one other location this September: an exhibit at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne, Australia. It's not clear if the demo that will be presented here will be the same as the one at Xbox's Gamescom booth, but Team Cherry has confirmed that the exhibit will feature displays of the game's concept art and other design elements. The release of these Hollow Knight: Silksong demos hopefully suggests that players won't have to wait too long to get the full game in their hands.

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