If you weren’t around when it tortured many fans with its difficulty or crashed almost every storefront at launch, Hollow Knight: Silksong was quite the big deal last year. After several patches, Team Cherry quietly went back to work, promising a free expansion, Sea of Sorrow, in 2026.
Almost a year later, there’s no update, but according to the manual from the recent physical edition’s release, it may only be the first. As posted by Arfadoz on Twitter, Team Cherry teases expanding Silksong’s world with “free content packs,” delivering “even more adventures” with “new friends, new abilities and new ferocious foes.”
As for Sea of Sorrow, it’s listed as “coming soon” and touted as the game’s “first giant expansion.” Of course, the last time this happened, Silksong went from an expansion to the original Hollow Knight to its own game, and took over six years to launch. It could do the funniest thing to fans for the second time in a row.
Stay tuned for updates regardless, and check out our review of Hollow Knight: Silksong. Available on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2, it focuses on Hornet as she travels Pharloom to unravel its many mysteries. As of December 2025, the Metroidvania sold over seven million units. It’s also on Game Pass, which saw “millions” of players on its own.
