It truly occurred: Silksong, the standalone sequel to Hole Knight, has a release date. After seven years in growth, and virtually as many shrouded in silence, the sport is popping out on September 4th. It’s welcome information for the tens of millions of Hole Knight followers who’ve been impatiently ready. But it surely’s additionally a part of a welcome pattern: 2025 is shaping as much as be the yr that a number of lengthy in-development video games lastly see the sunshine of day.
Whereas each Routine and Metroid Prime 4 appear to have suffered from the technical and design difficulties that may plague the event of massive, advanced video games — at one level Nintendo’s senior managing government officer Shinya Takahashi referred to as Metroid‘s growth “very challenged” — that hasn’t been the case for Silksong. It’s only a sport being constructed by a small group who had been capable of take a sluggish and regular method. “It was by no means caught or something,” Team Cherry co-founder Ari Gibson told Bloomberg. “It was at all times progressing. It’s simply the case that we’re a small group, and video games take numerous time. There wasn’t any massive controversial second behind it.”
After all, there’s one other long-in-the-works sport that was initially slated to launch in 2025 however has since been pushed again: Grand Theft Auto VI. Rockstar launched the primary trailer for the sport at the end of 2023, a decade after the launch of GTAV, and initially deliberate to launch VI in the fall of this year. It’s now supposed to return out on May 26th, 2026, so followers must proceed to attend for that one.
However even with out the blockbuster behemoth that’s Grand Theft Auto, this yr can be one which satiates many followers who’ve been eagerly awaiting a particular sport. You may even throw the latest chapters of Deltarune on to that checklist. The actual query is, with all of those video games lastly popping out, what’s subsequent to obsess over? Is the sequel to Beyond Good & Evil actually nonetheless alive? When will Stardew Valley’s creator launch his subsequent sport, Haunted Chocolatier? Will Knights of the Previous Republic get its announced remake — or will Bloodborne get one in any respect? What’s up with the following Elder Scrolls and Half-Life 3? Let’s hope for extra excellent news in 2026.