Final week, after years and years of ready, we lastly bought a launch date for Hole Knight: Silksong. The highly anticipated 2D action platformer is out next week, which is thrilling for followers, however it’s proving to be an issue for numerous indie studios that have been planning to launch their very own video games round that point. A bunch of video games are being delayed to keep away from Silksong.
On August 21, Team Cherry announced that its Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, will launch on PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, Swap, Swap 2, and PC on September 4. That blew up the schedules for numerous indie devs and publishers who had staked out a launch date round that point and have been now abruptly competing straight with what’s going to possible be one of many largest video games of 2025. So, as you would possibly count on, a variety of these devs and publishers have began asserting delays to get out of Silksong‘s way. This has become known as getting “Silksong’d” or “Silksonged.”
Right here’s the total checklist of video games which have introduced delays and blamed it on Silksong. We’ll replace this checklist if extra video games get moved again.
In fact, as extra video games are delayed to the week or so after Silksong, all of them begin operating into one another, which may be its personal drawback. However I wager it’s extra manageable than having to tackle one of the anticipated video games of 2025 straight. And hey, a few of these video games I had by no means heard of earlier than, and now I’m writing about them on Kotaku. So maybe there’s one more reason to announce a delay and leap on the “Silksong’d” bandwagon.
