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10 Games To Satisfy Your Silksong Cravings While We Wait For New DLC
Action-RPGHollow Knight: SilksongPlatformerSoulslike
As the one-year anniversary of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release approaches, some players, having now beaten the game long ago, might be left with a Hornet-shaped hole in their hearts. While there’s a free DLC, Sea of Sorrow, due sometime this year, given the series’ history, it’s possible we may not see it for some time yet. Silksong is a singular metroidvania flavored with difficult bosses and unforgiving areas that would inspire a serious case of professional envy in the developers at FromSoftware. However, I’ve assembled here 10 games that I think can scratch the same itches Silksong does.
Let’s get the “duh” choice out of the way first. Silksong is a sequel, improving on a lot of the combat and platforming systems its predecessor, Hollow Knight, established. Hornet, the protagonist of Silksong, was also originally a boss that showed up several times throughout Hollow Knight, and the two games are connected by a shared narrative thread of excess, corruption, and eventual doom. Playing Hollow Knight after Silksong kinda feels like that moment in a shonen anime when the protagonist sheds their weighted armor. The sequel’s combat is so much harder and the platforming so much more unforgiving that Hollow Knight feels like a quaint walk in the park in comparison, but one definitely worth taking.
Of all the games on this list that don’t have Hollow Knight in its title, Blasphemous and its sequel are the games most like Silksong. I’m talking combat, exploration power-ups, and an expansive world suffused with sorrowful religious imagery. Much like Silksong, Blasphemous demands that you respect your enemies lest they easily kill you in your carelessness. The two games share an air of gilded rot. In Silksong the world is crushed under the weight of a despotic yet holy figure worshiped in a crumbling temple. The same is true of Blasphemous. Made by Spanish game studio The Game Kitchen, the game pulls its inspiration directly from Catholic religious festivals and painter Francisco Goya’s work A Procession of the Flaggellants. The result is a game in which you feel lost, both physically and spiritually, while pain drips quite literally from every orifice.
While wholly different in terms of gameplay, art style, and even graphical dimensions, Dante’s Inferno is what you play when you want to continue to explore Silksong’s vibe of rotten religion—but also want to have way more goofy-ass fun with it. Dante’s Inferno is EA’s straight-up God of War clone, right down to the big glowy buttons that hover over an enemy’s head when it’s time to perform a finishing move. It’s supposed to be an action game riff on Dante Alighieri’s epic poem in which a knight returning from the Crusades ventures to hell to save his beloved’s damned soul. But the whole game tries so hard to tap into that hyper-violent, edgelord vibe of the late aughts that it wheels back around into a Divine Comedy that I cannot take seriously, but nevertheless enjoy playing.
You’re not gonna find a single thing Blippo+ has in common with Silksong. Instead of a metroidvania, it’s a—how to put this—an immersive narrative experience where the main gameplay mechanic is channel-surfing through late-night TV shows? As you flip between programs styled after The Joy of Painting, public access news broadcasts, and Svengoolie, a story starts to emerge that also has nothing to do with any of the narratives present in Silksong. So why does this game make the list? When Silksong finally announced its release date, it essentially blew a hole in late 2025’s video game calendar. Tons of games shifted their own release dates to get out of the game’s way, much like everyone’s doing this year with GTA VI now. Blippo+, which had an earlier release on the PlayDate, kept its Switch and PC launch date of September 23rd, when we were all smack-dab in the middle of Silksong fever. Chances are you missed this game. Now that the Silksong haze has clea