Over 17,000 people are watching a livestream that doesn’t start for another two days – only Hollow Knight: Silksong can achieve something like this.

Rarely does an announcement cause such a stir in the gaming community. Official news about the eagerly awaited sequel is finally on the horizon!

Hollow Knight: Silksong is definitely coming in 2025                                                 &nbsp

But now: My colleague Dani can actually play Silksong at gamescom…

We can’t stay serious, sorry! But there’s a reason for that: Hollow Knight: Silksong has become a running joke, an inexhaustible source of memes in gaming culture and the most requested Steam game in the world.

When is Silksong coming out? has been a perennial favorite on Reddit and other sites for years. Not a single Nintendo Direct goes by without fans like the author of these lines painting themselves as clowns in anticipation of disappointment. 🤡

Now it’s really happening: A livestream will take place on August 21, 2025 – and it already has viewers 48 hours before it starts!

Livestream for Silksong: Here’s how you can watch!

It starts on August 21, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. German time. You can watch the stream on YouTube. No need to search for it yourself, here it is. Just leave this tab open if you don’t want to miss anything:

That’s right: developer Team Cherry has announced a Special Announcement. This led to over 17,000 people tuning in to YouTube at times on August 19, 2025, a full two days before the stream, even though there was nothing to see yet. If that’s not hype, we don’t know what is…

Release date? Shadow drop? The rumor mill is in full swing

What will be revealed on August 21? Well, if only we knew. One thing is certain: it has to be something important, something concrete.
Anything else would send fans, who are exhausted from the seemingly endless wait, to the barricades, and the small Cherry team knows that.

The list of ideas is long and not always serious:

• A final release date could be announced after more than six years of almost complete silence – in which case it would most likely be for 2025.
• The game could be released as a shadow drop just in time for the start of the livestream, meaning it would be available immediately.
• Team Cherry announces another release delay until 2026. Oh yes: 🤡
• The small development team announces that there have been problems and that they have therefore started the development of Silksong from scratch. As a small compensation, there is Hollow Knight: The Definitive Remastered Edition Deluxe HD.

As you can see, anything could happen! Argh, the impatience! What do you think? Will you be there on August 21 at 4:30 p.m., or couldn’t you care less about Hollow Knight: Silksong? If you’re one of the waiting fans, what do you think will be revealed? A release date? New gameplay? Feel free to share your guesses in the comments!