Xbox Store Claims Hollow Knight: Silksong Is Releasing In 8,000 Years

Summary

The USXboxStore has updated its listing forHollow Knight: Silksong, suggesting that it’s releasing more than 7,000 years from now in the year 9998. Sounds about right.

It’s been an incredibly long and painful waitfor the much-anticipated sequel toHollow Knight, but the past few months have at least given us some hope that it’s getting closer and closer to release. On April Fool’s Day,Silksong’s Xbox page was updatedand then, just a few days later,it was even given an age rating in Korea.

Since then, Hollow Knight fans have been on the lookout for any kind of news to do with Silksong, be it a new trailer or even a hint from Team Cherry that something is coming before this Summer’s Xbox showcase. Well, as great as it was to imagine Silksong coming out in 2024, it looks like we might be off by a few thousand years.

Looks Like We’re Nearly 8,000 Years Away From Silksong

As pointed out by Blackbird on ResetEraandoriginally shared on Twitter by TheColorW, Hollow Knight: Silksong’slisting on the Microsoft Apps Store has been updated, which includes it finally having a proper release date. Hold on to your insect hats, folks, as Silksong will be upon us on Jul 17, 2025. Oh.

That’s right, you might have thought that Silksong was just a few months from release at the most and likely to be shown at this year’s Xbox Showcase, but it turns out that it’s going to be an even longer wait. None of us will be alive when it actually ends up releasing, but our ancestors will hopefully enjoy it as much as we all wanted to.

Let’s just hope that it’s release doesn’t contend with Half-Life 3 and the next Jak game, because boy that’s going to be a stacked season.

All joking aside, the date that’s listed on the Microsoft Apps Store is clearly just a placeholder and not Silksong’s actual release date, even if we’ve been waiting so long by now that it feels like itcouldbe. More importantly, the fact that Silksong even has a listed release date right now does seem to suggest that something has changed behind the scenes and that we’re going to find out the actual date very soon.