Do not Neglect That Games Other Than Hollow Knight: Silksong Are Out Right this moment, Too

Hollow Knight: Silksong is the GTA6 of the indie video games world. It’s the megaton recreation that each different recreation desires to dodge. But typically publishers simply cannot change their launch dates. We put collectively a listing of a few of the different video games releasing at the moment to take a look at if Silksong is not your jam (otherwise you identical to being contrarian), in addition to just a few of the anticipated video games that scooted out of the best way of Hornet and her lethal needle.

Games Releasing September 4, 2025

Adventure of Samsara – Notably, Adventure of Samsara is a search-action (colloquially often known as a Metroidvania) recreation, identical to Hollow Knight, and also you’re additionally a bit of man with a sword. This recreation options some great-looking pixel artwork.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle “The Order of the Giants” DLC – This enlargement delves deeper into the “Order of Giants” hinted at within the base recreation.

Hell is Us – In a spot ravaged by conflict and a mysterious calamity, you seek for solutions about your individual previous. This recreation is a third-person motion recreation with souls-like parts.

NBA 2K26 – If there’s anybody that is not frightened about Silksong affecting their gross sales, its in all probability 2K Games and their newest NBA recreation. There simply is not as a lot overlap with basketball as there’s with a recreation like The Adventures of Samsara or a souls-inspired recreation like Hell is Us.

Jetrunner – A trendy first-person parkour recreation with flashy, cel-shaded visuals.

Other video games releasing at the moment embrace the Switch 2 port of Star Wars: Outlaws, Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots, and the Apple Arcade unique NFL Retro Bowl ’26.

Meanwhile, a bunch of different video games made a run for it as soon as Silksong claimed that September 4 date. The sci-fi roguelite FPS Moros Protocol jumped to September 18, as did the PlayStation 1-aesthetic roguelike survival recreation Megabonk. Baby Steps, the follow-up to Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, awkwardly planted one foot in entrance of the opposite towards a September 23 launch date. Demonschool was set to launch September 23, and developer Ysbird said of the delay, “We have to remind ourselves that gaining visibility for Demonschool is our main goal. Thus, the Ysbryd team strongly believes we would not be doing our game any favors by wading into waters we can clearly see are blood red.”

Meanwhile, Hollow Knight: Silksong has landed with extraordinarily optimistic phrase of mouth. It additionally virtually instantly began crashing the servers for Steam and the Nintendo eShop, and affecting service on Game Pass. Hollow Knight: Silksong peaked on Steam with 535,000 gamers, placing it within the prime three for concurrent gamers alongside Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2.