Silksong is shockingly cheap at $20 — Team Cherry says it aims to “price games at a reasonable level for people”

Gibson revisits the design path that led Team Cherry to expand Silksong from what many expected to be a Hollow Knight DLC into a standalone game. The project kept growing until Hornet — the new protagonist — demanded an entirely new world.

As Gibson explains, “because we try to price the games at a reasonable level for people — and we have quite a habit of expanding the content to be quite large — it felt inevitable that it would get to a point where the value of what we make would warrant being recognised as a single title.”

It’s telling to hear Gibson acknowledge the studio’s tendency not to deliberately overreach, but to let projects evolve organically until years have passed and a devoted fanbase has formed. It’s equally amusing to imagine Team Cherry glancing at the $20 tag — the same price that prompted both astonishment and admiration online — and shrugging, “Yeah, five dollars more sounds right.”

Team Cherry hopes that if there are future Hollow Knight releases after Silksong, they can “just exist alongside one another,” so the order in which players experience them won’t matter.