2025 would have been a year known for its incredible indie releases off the back of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 alone, but the release of Hollow Knight Silksong cemented that marker better than any other game could have. After years of waiting, two weeks before it would arrive, developer Team Cherry dropped the release date, and then dropped the game that for millions of players more than lived up to the years of expectations.
A few months after its release, Team Cherry also confirmed that there is more Hollow Knight Silksong on the horizon, with the reveal of a free DLC expansion called Sea of Sorrows. The "nautically themed expansion" is set to arrive sometime this year, and while we don't have a release date yet, it doesn't sound like Team Cherry has any intention of making us wait nearly as long as we did for Silksong (which started its life as an expansion for Hollow Knight before being fleshed out into a full game).
In fairness, no one could have predicted that 'Silksong the DLC' would turn into Silksong the sequel that took years to make, but at least we have a new sign from Team Cherry that Sea of Sorrows really will be just a DLC as planned, and that we'll see it arrive sometime soon. The studio has just pushed out what it called "the last significant update" ahead of Sea of Sorrows' launch.
"Patch 5 is intended as the last significant update before Silksong's upcoming major expansion: Sea of Sorrow," Team Cherry wrote in the patch notes. Included in the patch are a slew of bug fixes, though most importantly, the addition of Traditional Chinese as the latest language available in the game and a significant overhaul of the game's German script.
Other notable changes include the Last Judge boss doing only two points of damage instead of three during its death explosion, the Magma Bell protecting against all fire-type explosions, the Savage Beastfly's minions dying along with the boss once defeated, and the Far Fields Savage Beastfly getting stunned when hit by the bomb rock, amongst a bunch of other fixes.
Hopefully, we'll know when we can all jump into Sea of Sorrows soon. The expansion is set to add "new areas, bosses, tools, and more." Team Cherry has also said that it will do a proper reveal of the expansion closer to its actual release, so the next time we see it we can also expect to be playing it soon after.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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