Some good news for all those patient folks waiting to get their hands on Hollow Knight: Silksong, with Team Cherry stepping in to clarify a few key details that have been bubbling to the surface this past week.
A few overseas outlets had retail listings appear for the game, with a price that seemed so spectacularly affordable many actually thought it was a placeholder price. A priceholder, if you will.
But the Adelaide folks took to social media to clarify that not only is that price accurate, but the exact time the game will unlock across timezones:
Jeepers. The game really DOES cost a paltry 19.99 USD. That’s a pretty spectacular figure when you consider that modern pricing strategies, even for a smaller scale title, feel like they are bullying you out of your fortnightly rent.
Slightly annoying that the AUD price wasn’t listed, considering it’s a home-grown hero – but a cursory Google tells us that the cost is just barely over $30 at the time of this article, if a direct 1:1 monetary conversion is done:
Feels like a very soothing light at the end of a very long tunnel. What better way to celebrate your long development time than delighting fans, new and old, with a price tag that will actually see change out of a crisp $50 note.
And we are mere days away from playing it. What a time to be alive.
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