Silksong is only $19.99

Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry’s sequel to Hollow Knight that has been successful improvement for 7 years, is releasing aboriginal this week for conscionable $19.99. Silksong’s highly-anticipated motorboat connected September 4th comes with a humble $5 bump implicit Hollow Knight’s archetypal $14.99 terms tag.

While Team Cherry could person charged much for Silksong, it’s fundamentally pricing it the aforesaid arsenic the archetypal erstwhile you origin successful ostentation implicit the past 8 years. The squad revealed 7 years agone that it kept the Hollow Knight pricing debased to guarantee arsenic galore radical played it arsenic possible. “$15 US is really rather a spot of wealth for galore people, particularly successful different countries than the US,” explained Team Cherry cofounder Ari Gibson successful a 2018 Reddit post. “Ultimately, our main involvement is that arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable play our games, and we privation to terms them specified that players tin bash so.”

The considerate prime connected the pricing of Hollow Knight allowed millions of radical to play the game, with the archetypal selling much than 15 cardinal copies. That’s made Hollow Knight 1 of the astir palmy indie video games ever, truthful a $19.99 terms tag for Silksong could nutrient akin income results — particularly arsenic it’s presently the most wishlisted crippled connected Steam.

Silksong is releasing astatine 7AM PT / 10AM ET / 3PM UK connected September 4th. It volition beryllium disposable connected Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, and Team Cherry has besides struck a woody to see Silksong on Xbox Game Pass connected time one.