So here’s one for the gamer history books: that demo of Hollow Knight: Silksong people lined up for at Gamescom 2025? The one players waited literal hours to get their hands on? Yeah… turns out it’s six years old.
No joke. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, the Gamescom demo is the exact same slice of Silksong he played all the way back at E3 2019. That means thousands of fans lined up for hours to play a build from the before-TikTok-blew-up era — and they didn’t even know it.
The Long (and Weird) Journey of Silksong
If you’re new to the hype train: Silksong was never supposed to be a full game. It started out as a planned DLC expansion for the original Hollow Knight, but Team Cherry just… kept expanding it until it became its own sequel.
That’s partly why development has been taking forever. But also, with the first Hollow Knight selling over 15 million copies, the devs aren’t exactly under pressure to rush something out. Team Cherry themselves have said they’re making the game they want to, at the pace they want to — basically the gamedev equivalent of “you can’t rush art.”
A Six-Year-Old Demo Still Has Fans Hyped
Here’s the wild thing: despite being from 2019, the demo is still blowing people away in 2025. That’s not just a flex for Team Cherry — that’s basically unheard of in gaming.
Most games age faster than memes, but Silksong’s early gameplay apparently still feels fresh enough to thrill players. Schreier put it pretty bluntly:
“At E3 2019, I played it, it was really cool. Hilariously, that demo is the same exact demo they brought to Gamescom this week, so all these people who were waiting in line 3 hours to play this demo, I played it six years ago.”
And honestly? That kind of says a lot. If players are thrilled by an old build, what’s cooking behind the curtain must be way beyond what we’ve seen in trailers so far.
So, What Have Team Cherry Been Cooking?
That’s the million-dollar question, right? If the “new” Gamescom demo is really just an ancient slice of the game, then the real content must be miles ahead by now.
It’s almost like Team Cherry is dangling a carrot on a stick — showing off just enough to keep the buzz alive while hiding the rest of the feast for release day. And let’s be real: Hollow Knight fans are patient. We’ve already proven we’ll wait years for a good thing.
Release Date: The Wait’s Almost Over
Luckily, the wait is finally (almost) over. Hollow Knight: Silksong officially releases on September 4, 2025.
So in just a couple weeks, the six-year hype cycle finally comes to an end — and we’ll get to see what Team Cherry has really been holding back all this time.
✨ Final Take: A six-year-old demo still being one of the most popular things at Gamescom just proves how much love there is for Silksong. Now the only question is whether the full release will meet — or even surpass — that absurd level of hype.
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