Silksong Physical may indicate Sea of Sorrow's release window

Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally getting its long-awaited physical release later this year, as Fangamer confirmed earlier this week. It comes with a physical disc, a manual, and a cool folding map that shows you the entire world of the game. It's another nice way to support Team Cherry, but some fans believe that this announcement gave us some details about Sea of Sorrow.

Silksong fans reckon that its physical appearance points to a Sea Of Sorrow release window

Hornet facing off against Reed and Chorister in Hollow Knight: Silksong.

If you head over to Fangamer's website and the Hollow Knight: Silksong pre-order page, you'll be able to find one sentence that's driving fans crazy right now. It says: “The Sea of Sorrow DLC is not part of the game media, but will be available as a free download.”

Now, if you're a glass-half-full Silksong fan, you'd probably see this as an admission that Sea of Sorrow will be out and playable when the game's physical release drops on October 16th, but the DLC won't be on disc due to production and all that jazz. If you're an optimist, this is basically an announcement telling you that Sea Of Sorrow is coming out in the next five months.

If you're a glass-half-empty Silksong fan, you'll read this more as a warning to potential customers that the DLC simply won't be on disc, and that the phrase “will be available as a free download” is just letting fans know that it's free and available to download whenever it launches, whether before or after the physical release.

It's a bit strange for me. I'm pretty sure Sea of Sorrow will launch within the next five months, as it would be pretty weird for Team Cherry to spend an entire year on one DLC when they usually only spend a few months on it. The first Hollow Knight DLC released less than 6 months after the launch of the base game and at Silksong's we have already exceeded that time.

I think it's possible we'll hear something about Sea of Sorrow next month, maybe at Summer Game Fest, and then a release a few weeks later, like what happened with the base game. It would be weird to launch a physical game and not include Sea of Sorrow if it was ready, so my money is on July or August.