The road to release of Hollow Knight: Silksong was long for the small independent studio Team Cherry, but now that it's in the hands of players and a round of post-launch tweaks have been made, the developers are looking toward new horizons. Acclaimed side-scrolling metroidvania Silksong nabbed a Game of the Year nomination at The Game Awards, but Team Cherry may skip the ceremony, citing their busy schedule and a prediction that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will take home the prize.
The Silksong devs seem largely unconcerned by the award and the award show itself, and have already turned some of their attention to Team Cherry's next project, which will "go elsewhere," they told Bloomberg. "We do have ideas around what forms those [games in Hollow Knight worlds] would take," Team Cherry co-director Ari Gibson said. "But we also don't want to be exclusively people that make Hollow Knight."
Those who feverishly waited years for Silksong and are eagerly looking forward to more Hollow Knight might be disappointed, but Gibson makes it sound like more games in the series are something of an inevitability, that ideas are already fomenting. "If we were forced to make another Hollow...
