{"id":20037,"date":"2025-09-10T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/hollow-knight-silksong-has-caused-bedlam-in-the-gaming-world-and-the-hype-is-justified\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:37:22","slug":"hollow-knight-silksong-has-caused-bedlam-in-the-gaming-world-and-the-hype-is-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/hollow-knight-silksong-has-caused-bedlam-in-the-gaming-world-and-the-hype-is-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollow Knight: Silksong has caused bedlam in the gaming world \u2013 and the hype is justified"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: the long-awaited release from the three-person Team Cherry studio has crashed gaming storefronts and put indie developers back in the spotlight<\/p>\n

Just one game has been dominating the gaming conversation over the past week: Hollow Knight Silksong, an eerie, atmospheric action game from a small developer in Australia called Team Cherry. It was finally released last Thursday after many years in development, and everybody is loving it. Hollow Knight was so popular that it crashed multiple gaming storefronts<\/a>. With continual game cancellations, expensive failures and layoffs at bigger studios, this is the kind of indie triumph the industry loves to celebrate at the moment. But Silksong hasn\u2019t come out of nowhere, and its success would not be easily reproducible for any other game, indie or not.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering what this game actually is<\/em>, then imagine a dark, mostly underground labyrinth of bug nests and abandoned caverns that gradually yields its secrets to a determined player. The art style and sound are minimalist and creepy (though not scary) in a Tim Burton kind of way, the enemy bugs are fierce and hard to defeat, your player character is another bug with a small, sharp needle-like blade. It blends elements of Metroid, Dark Souls and older challenging platform games, and the unique aesthetic and perfect <\/em>precision of the controls are what make it stand out from a swarm of similar games. I rinsed the first Hollow Knight and I\u2019m captivated by Silksong. I\u2019ve spent 15 hours on it in three days, and it has made my thumbs hurt.<\/p>\n

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\nIn this week\u2019s newsletter: the long-awaited release from the three-person Team Cherry studio has crashed gaming storefronts and put indie developers back in the spotlight
\nJust one game has been dominating the gaming conversation over the past week: Hollow Knight Silksong, an eerie, atmospheric action game from a small developer in Australia called Team Cherry. It was finally released last Thursday after many years in development, and everybody is loving it. Hollow Knight was so popular that it crashed multiple gaming storefronts. With continual game cancellations, expensive failures and layoffs at bigger studios, this is the kind of indie triumph the industry loves to celebrate at the moment. But Silksong hasn\u2019t come out of nowhere, and its success would not be easily reproducible for any other game, indie or not.
\nIf you\u2019re wondering what this game actually is, then imagine a dark, mostly underground labyrinth of bug nests and abandoned caverns that gradually yields its secrets to a determined player. The art style and sound are minimalist and creepy (though not scary) in a Tim Burton kind of way, the enemy bugs are fierce and hard to defeat, your player character is another bug with a small, sharp needle-like blade. It blends elements of Metroid, Dark Souls and older challenging platform games, and the unique aesthetic and perfect precision of the controls are what make it stand out from a swarm of similar games. I rinsed the first Hollow Knight and I\u2019m captivated by Silksong. I\u2019ve spent 15 hours on it in three days, and it has made my thumbs hurt. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: the long-awaited release from the three-person Team Cherry studio has crashed gaming storefronts and put indie developers back in the spotlight Just one game has been dominating the gaming conversation over the past week: Hollow Knight Silksong, an eerie, atmospheric action game from a small developer in Australia called Team Cherry. …<\/p>\n

Hollow Knight: Silksong has caused bedlam in the gaming world \u2013 and the hype is justified<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}