Silksong Has a Release Date (Sort Of)... at a Museum

After nearly five years of collective internet yearning, Hollow Knight: Silksong finally got a release update—but not from Steam, Nintendo, or even developer Team Cherry. Nope. This long-awaited nugget of information came from... an Australian science museum. I’ll let that settle in.

To be clear, the exhibition, “Game Masters,” hosted by the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, listed Silksong’s release window as simply “2024.” And just like that, a museum exhibit has officially beaten every other source in confirming what year this thing will allegedly exist in our hands.

Let’s Talk About the Absurdity (and Odd Hope) Here

Silksong isn’t just any indie sequel. It's the spiritual horcrux of many a Metroidvania fan. Since it was first announced in 2019, fans have clung to every breadcrumb, parsing Nintendo Directs like tea leaves and genuinely emotional over any news—or, more often, the lack thereof.

So when an actual playable demo showed up as part of a physical exhibit, with marketing materials casually referencing a 2024 release? It was surreal. Like stumbling on Atlantis while looking for your keys.

So, What Can We Take From This?

As a technical communicator turned blogger, I’ve learned to embrace the absurdity when messaging goes sideways. Here’s what this museum release date episode actually teaches us—yes, there are takeaways.

• Transparent messaging matters. When your most engaged fans are refreshing your subreddit daily, a museum shouldn’t be delivering your news first.

• Expectations age poorly. Hype is great short-term, but silence? It curdles. People start filling the void with memes and bitterness.

• PR channels need redundancy. If your dev team is silent, someone else might tell your story. Or in this case, a museum will.

• People love closure—even if it’s just a date in a display case. Some fans just wanted something. ‘2024’ scratched the itch. Temporarily.

Bottom Line: Keep the Conversation Going

Whether it’s AAA or indie, leaving fans in the dark rarely works out. Transparency doesn’t have to mean over-sharing—it just means not letting your biggest fans find out critical news by reading a laminated placard next to a display console surrounded by schoolchildren.

And if Team Cherry ever decides to post an actual release date online? A lot of us will squint at it and go, “Okay, but what does the museum say?”