Since September 2025, I’ve been deep on this planet of Hole Knight. I beat the primary recreation a few years in the past, and revisited it a few years after to look at my girlfriend beat it. Since then, I have been ready with bated breath for the sequel, Hole Knight: Silksong. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Workforce Cherry introduced at Gamescom 2025 that their subsequent recreation was coming this 12 months; not simply this 12 months, however about two weeks later. I used to be on trip on the time, and so, with a couple of week to go earlier than Silksong’s launch, I jumped again in for a full playthrough of Hole Knight to get ready. As soon as that was completed, it was time to play my most anticipated recreation of the 12 months.
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Two and a half months later, and I’ve marathoned each Hole Knight video games. I’ve absolutely immersed myself in certainly one of (I imagine) the best online game worlds of all time, and I’ve come away with a ton of ideas about each video games. Nevertheless, as a substitute of dwelling on the previous (sure, Silksong is the previous now), it looks as if a good time to start out producing some hype for whatever Team Cherry does next with this franchise. Throughout my journeys by Hallownest and Pharloom, I met tons of incredible, lovable, and fantastically designed characters. If a 3rd Hole Knight recreation had been to comply with the identical development that Silksong did, the place the principle character of the subsequent recreation was a facet character within the earlier one, then these are the characters I need to take the lead in a 3rd Hole Knight recreation.
Main Spoilers Forward for Hole Knight and Hole Knight: Silksong.
Shakra
A Courageous Warrior Who Misplaced Her Grasp
I used to be going to be skeptical of whoever the map service provider was in Hole Knight: Silksong due to how fond I grew to become of Cornifer, the mild cartographer from Hole Knight who was a reduction to listen to buzzing his jaunty tune in every of the sport’s major areas. Nevertheless, Shakra grew on me in a short time. She’s a warrior from a small tribe that values fight prowess a lot, they identify one another after their weapon of alternative. Very like Cornifer’s quills, Shakra’s shakras typically litter the bottom close to her location.
There are just a few the reason why Shakra could be an awesome protagonist in a 3rd Hole Knight recreation. For one, in contrast to each Hornet and The Knight, her major weapon is a ranged weapon. Even contemplating Hornet’s instruments, a fight system constructed round ranged fight could be a significant (and welcome) change. Second, she’s a lot larger than the earlier two protagonists; virtually twice as massive as Hornet, actually. Given the implications of Silksong’s “Passing of the Age” ending, there’s an opportunity we’ll be heading to the Floor in a 3rd recreation, and given the large cranium Hornet stumbles upon up there, a bigger protagonist like Shakra is perhaps the one character who can fairly deal with the creatures that reside above floor. Third, Shakra is poised for an awesome narrative. After discovering that her master is dead, Shakra is searching for which means and goal. She was final seen defending the residents of Bellhart from the Void-possessed bugs, shopping for Hornet time to halt the Void’s unfold. Now that Hornet has succeeded, a private quest is strictly what Shakra wants.
Zote
Mighty Warrior Or Unreliable Narrator?
There is a bit extra to this concept than merely narrative intrigue. Throughout Hole Knight’s unique Kickstarter marketing campaign, Workforce Cherry set a pair of fundraising objectives that, when met, would introduce two new playable characters to the sport. A kind of characters was Hornet, who, as a substitute of being playable in Hole Knight, grew to become the star of her personal recreation: Hole Knight: Silksong. Nevertheless, the promotional picture for the second Kickstarter objective featured a personality gazing off into the gap who seemed fairly a bit like Zote.
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The factor is, loads of characters in Hole Knight appear to be Zote, together with The Knight themself. Whereas it has been all however confirmed that Zote isn’t a vessel and is greater than seemingly only a bug with daddy points, that does not imply there is no story right here. The factor is, Zote’s desperation to make his father proud (whether or not he admits it or not) has made him extraordinarily smug with absolutely nothing to back that attitude up; at the very least, that we all know of. Whereas Zote the Mighty and Gray Prince Zote are highly effective hidden Dream bosses, it is assumed that they are incarnations of how Zote sees himself, and never actually his youthful self. Because it stands, little or no is definitely recognized about Zote, and that makes him a really attention-grabbing protagonist choice. Workforce Cherry may fill in his backstory, or take an strategy like Name of Juarez: Gunslinger, the place Zote is narrating an outlandish story that retains altering in the course of the telling, and we get to expertise the story whereas it is advised, piecing collectively which elements are true and that are simply the ravings of a boastful bug.
Lace
The Antagonist Turned Protagonist
Identical to The Knight and Hornet, Lace is the daughter of a better being, Grand Mom Silk. Whereas The Knight was born of the Pale King and the White Woman, and Hornet is the daughter of the Pale King and Herrah the Beast, Lace was spun fully from silk, and together with Phantom, she was created by Grand Mom Silk to be her devoted daughter and assist her wake from her slumber. The place Phantom got here undone, Lace remained loyal, a lot in order that her mom’s obsession with Hornet’s pure silk-producing skills brought on her such jealousy that she finally turned on Grand Mom Silk.
Very like Shakra on the finish of Silksong, Lace wants a brand new goal. Hornet rescued her from the Void, however she stole the final of Grand Mom Silk’s energy to take action, leaving Lace with out her mom and with no goal or any connection to her mom. Lace additionally performed a really comparable position in Silksong as Hornet did in Hole Knight; “villains” who regularly tackle the position of redemptive antiheroes afterward. Lace might be the obvious alternative for the protagonist of a 3rd Hole Knight recreation when contemplating that similarity, however there’s a component of self-loathing current in Lace that’s not part of Hornet’s character. Lace does not simply want a goal; she must discover a technique to worth herself with out her mom’s affect. There’s an interesting character arc ready slightly below the floor if that is the route Workforce Cherry takes.
Quirrel
Intrepid Explorer And Dreamer’s Apprentice
In all chance, Quirrel is lifeless. After The Knight kills his mentor, Monomon the Instructor, Quirrel appears distant. He begins to speak about feeling previous and eager to relaxation, and once you go to revisit him at his spot close to the Lake of Tears, Quirrel is gone, however he left his nail caught within the floor. On condition that Quirrel is all the time speaking about how necessary it’s to have a weapon when exploring, the symbolism of leaving his weapon behind could not be a lot clearer.
What is not clear about Quirrel is the place he was earlier than the occasions of Hole Knight; even he does not appear to know. When Quirrel first reveals up, he has no reminiscence of ever visiting Hallownest earlier than, regardless of being very a lot current when Monomon helped seal the Hole Knight. After The Knight kills Monomon, Quirrel remembers that a part of his previous, however sooner or later between sealing the Hole Knight and the start of Hole Knight, Quirrel left Hallownest, after which later returned. The place he went, what he did, why he returned, and why he does not bear in mind any of it’s all a thriller. Whereas it would not immediately proceed the story of the collection, a prequel that explores Quirrel’s journey previous to the primary recreation could be a welcome change of tempo.
Hornet
If It Ain’t Broke…
For all intents and functions, The Knight’s story is finished. They had been known as again to Hallownest by the Hole Knight (or The Radiance sealed within) to comprise the spreading an infection, and as soon as they did so, their story was largely completed. That is not the case with Hornet. Sure, we get a ton extra backstory about her in Hole Knight: Silksong, however her position as a touring protector positions her as a great recurring hero for the collection.
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Hornet mentions in direction of the tip of Silksong that she had already failed to guard one kingdom from break and that she wasn’t about to let it occur once more. Whereas what occurred in Hallownest was hardly her fault, she nonetheless feels accountable and takes it upon herself to avoid wasting Pharloom from the clutches of Grand Mom Silk, and later, from the emergence of the Void. Whereas it’d really feel a bit redundant, there could be nothing fallacious with sending Hornet to a different kingdom in peril and making her the de facto defender of this world. Or, higher but, since she’s already been to the floor, perhaps she follows Mister Mushroom and explores the world above? Both manner, Hornet’s story doesn’t essentially want to finish with Silksong, and he or she’s undoubtedly a powerful sufficient character to hold a number of video games.
Metal Murderer Sharpe
The place Did You Come From, The place Did You Go?
I am reaching a bit of right here, since Metal Murderer Sharpe is not truly in Silksong, however that is what makes him so attention-grabbing. He was supposed to be in Silksong; hell, he was even featured within the first trailer. Sharpe is the chief of a trio of assassins who had been meant to hunt Hornet round Pharloom, however for some cause, they had been reduce from the sport. The factor is, Sharpe is a Kickstarter backer creation, and Workforce Cherry by no means leaves their backers hanging.
Sharpe may very simply be on the shelf for an upcoming DLC, and could also be launched in an identical method to Grimm in Hole Knight, however there’s additionally an opportunity that he was shelved to avoid wasting him and his gang for a extra outstanding position in a 3rd recreation. Now, that may be a big gamble, as a result of Sharpe does not have something near the identify recognition that Hornet had going into Silksong, however at this level, Workforce Cherry has constructed up a metric ton of participant goodwill. They may make a recreation starring an previous Barbie doll that was dipped in acid, and other people would give it an opportunity. The thriller surrounding Sharpe, his distinctive combating fashion (utilizing his proboscis as each a sword and a whip), and his place because the chief of a gang versus the offspring of a better being, would supply a unique perspective on this world that we’ve not seen but. It is in all probability the least seemingly choice on this listing, however it will even be probably the most stunning, and the boldest route that Workforce Cherry may take with their subsequent recreation.
