{"id":10526,"date":"2025-08-20T21:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/08\/20\/hollow-knight-silksong-demo-at-gamescom-2025-is-a-shinier-silkier-version-of-the-same-demo-from-e3-2019\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:04:42","slug":"hollow-knight-silksong-demo-at-gamescom-2025-is-a-shinier-silkier-version-of-the-same-demo-from-e3-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/08\/20\/hollow-knight-silksong-demo-at-gamescom-2025-is-a-shinier-silkier-version-of-the-same-demo-from-e3-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollow Knight: Silksong Demo at Gamescom 2025 Is a Shinier, Silkier Version of the Same Demo From E3 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-page\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2025\/04\/02\/partnerspotlightnintendoswitch2directtrailer-ign-blogroll-1743609486987.jpg\" \/>\n<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\"><\/section>\n<p>There&#8217;s been lots of excitement over the presence of a Hollow Knight: Silksong game demo on the show floor at Gamescom this year, in both the Xbox and Nintendo booths. And by all accounts, the demo seems pretty great. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/hollow-knight-silksong-we-played-it-gamescom-2025\">own previewer said<\/a> it&#8217;s &#8220;a piece of playable art that is as fun to wield as it is to watch.&#8221; But some Silksong superfans hoping for new story, new bosses, or new content to reveal themselves in this demo might be a little disappointed, because the Gamescom demo is the same demo from six years ago at E3 2019. But shinier.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"hollow-knight-silksong-gameplay-tease-gamescom-2025\" data-loop=\"\"><\/section>\n<p>We first noticed this when reading through our previews of the demo from today alongside our preview from 2019. It&#8217;s more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/06\/21\/hollow-knight-silksong-feels-wildly-different-and-incredibly-familiar-e3-2019\">discernable when looking at 2019&#8217;s video footage<\/a>, but both demos cover the same two areas &#8211; the early game Moss Grotto, and the later Deep Docks. They cover the same encounters and bosses as well. We&#8217;ve been able to comb over some other footage posted by other individuals from Gamescom and yup, looks like an updated version of the same demo.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing. If anything, it shows how far the game has come in six years. Looking at similar clips from both demos, and there are very clear signs of polish. Lighting and backgrounds have been adjusted, platforms have been moved around slightly. Fans have even spotted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Silksong\/comments\/1mvp03b\/a_piece_of_dialogue_between_hornet_and_lace_was\/\">teensiest, tiniest dialogue change<\/a> between the two demos. It&#8217;s also not surprising that neither area has undergone massive content changes in six years. If these two levels were ready for prime time in 2019, they were likely the closest to &#8220;done&#8221; at the time that Team Cherry had ready, and thus wouldn&#8217;t need developers to spend years tweaking them infinitely. And for what it&#8217;s worth, this is also the first time we&#8217;ve seen the game on both an Xbox Series console, and the Nintendo Switch 2, as the E3 2019 demo was only on Nintendo Switch 1.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"hollow-knight-silksong-2025-screenshots\" data-value=\"hollow-knight-silksong-2025-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\"><\/section>\n<p>The only real disappointment to be had here is that we&#8217;re not actually seeing any new content after such a long wait &#8211; no new bosses or enemies or characters or stories. So anyone looking to scour this new demo for clues as to what Silksong will be when it finally releases is probably not going to come up with much that we don&#8217;t already know.<\/p>\n<p>Still, that probably won&#8217;t be necessary either. Team Cherry has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/hollow-knight-silksong-developer-teases-special-announcement-later-this-week\">announced an announcement<\/a> of some sort for tomorrow, and after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/oh-boy-geoff-keighley-is-teasing-hollow-knight-silksong-for-gamescom-opening-night-live\">rash<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/hollow-knight-silksong-shows-up-at-gamescom-opening-night-live-with-almost-30-seconds-of-new-gameplay-as-a-treat\">teases<\/a> around Gamescom and the demo finally re-emerging after a six year cocoon, it seems likely that a release date is imminent. (Silk)soon, we won&#8217;t need to scour tidbits of footage for a crumb of new Silksong info. We&#8217;ll just be able to, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/hollow-knight-silksong-the-story-behind-the-insanely-long-wait-clown-meme\">finally, play the long-anticipated <\/a>sequel to Hollow Knight for ourselves.<\/p>\n\n<section data-transform=\"divider\"><\/section>\n<p><em>Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been lots of excitement over the presence of a Hollow Knight: Silksong game demo on the show floor at Gamescom this year, in both the Xbox and Nintendo booths. And by all accounts, the demo seems pretty great. 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