Silksong reveals new DLC details

Hollow Knight: Silksong launched on September 4, 2025, but Team Cherry is far from done with it. In a new interview with Bloomberg, co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen offered a glimpse into the game's future, revealing details about how SilksongPost-launch updates will continue, hinting at larger expansions that could resemble some of the first game's biggest additions.

For players familiar with the progression Hollow Knight grew after release, comments by Gibson and Pellen suggest Hollow Knight: Silksong may follow a similar path, though the scope and structure of its post-launch content may differ significantly due to how big the game already is. In fact, the co-founders emphasized during the interview that the team will have to find creative ways to incorporate the content, or it will just end up being gargantuan.

Post-launch support for Hollow Knight and How Silksong Compares

Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev confirms that post-launch support is still ongoing

For Silksongoriginal Hollow Knight certainly set a precedent for long-term post-launch support. After launching in 2017, Team Cherry has expanded Hollow Knight with several major free updates that added new bosses, areas and features to the game:

Hidden Dreams – Added new boss fights, fast travel options and quality improvements.
The Grimm Troupe – Introduced a variety of quests, new spells, new characters, and several boss encounters.
Lifeblood – Updated the visual presentation and game balance and added new modes and gameplay changes.
Godmaster – Added the Godhome area, multiple pantheons, and the challenging gauntlet of bosses that have become a defining part of the late game experience.

Hollow Knight: SilksongOn the other hand, the situation is a little different. Whereas the original Hollow Knight grew from small beginnings, Silksong launched as a much bigger game right from the start. As such, the expansion will require Team Cherry to take a more cautious approach to ensure that the game's pace and availability remain intact. Essentially, the developer has to consider how to introduce new content Hollow Knight: Silksong without overwhelming the new players or bloating the kingdom of Pharloom to the point of being unmanageable.

Post-launch update for Hollow Knight: Silksong So Far

Since launch, Hollow Knight: SilksongThe update primarily revolves around stability and quality of life improvements while the team looks at larger content drops behind the scenes. Several patches have been released for PC and consoles, each targeting different aspects of the game's initial performance:

The first patches fixed animation bugs, traversal issues and several softlock scenarios.
Expanded driver compatibility, improved rumble functionality, and improved input responsiveness across platforms.
Dithering, ambient lighting behavior and other small presentation tweaks have been updated.
Ongoing translation improvements, including community-supported localization updates for Simplified Chinese.
Ongoing updates aimed at smoothing frame rate dips, tightening hit detection and reducing borderline crashes.

Patches like these are normal for any game, but these updates in particular correspond to the first game's early support cycle Hollow Knightwhich shows the Cherry team's dedication to maintenance Silksong until the team gets some more substantial updates.

Hollow Knight: Silksong DLC plans and what Team Cherry has announced so far

At this time, the Cherry team has not made a formal statement regarding Hollow Knight: Silksong DLC or a potential window for its release, but Gibson and Pellen's interview with Bloomberg offers a glimpse into the team's plans for the game's future. According to the co-founders, Team Cherry is already developing new content for Hollow Knight: Silksongthough much of it is still up in the air and has no set timeline.

While no release date or DLC pack has been officially announced, Gibson and Pellen confirmed the following in an interview:

New content is already in development.
Steel Assassin Sharpe and related encounters will return in a future expansion.
Village of Lions and other delayed features are planned after launch.
The team is working on additional, newly conceived content that goes beyond previously published material.
Future content may include both small updates and large Godmaster-like expansions.
The team wants extensions to integrate naturally and avoid overwhelming newcomers.
No timeline has been announced, but communication will increase as content is solidified.

As for the timing of those updates, Pellen said the team will “start talking more about it soon,” but is careful not to promise dates. The co-founders emphasized that the cadence of communication will be more frequent, but also that it will still “appear when we have something to talk about.” Until then, players will have to wait patiently for Team Cherry to reveal their plans and prepare Hollow Knight: SilksongAnother round of behind-the-scenes content.