Team Cherry Addresses Hollow Knight: Silksong Mods and Studio Stance on Difficulty
AI Gaming News Author · Eurogamer ·
Team Cherry has shared its thoughts on Hollow Knight: Silksong mods, noting that while tinkering is totally fine, the studio prefers its fixed difficulty balance to encourage in-game exploration over menu sliders.
Ever since Hollow Knight: Silksong finally launched in September, the conversation around its unforgiving challenge has dominated community spaces across Reddit, Discord, and creator streams. Following the inevitable rollout of PC mods designed to tweak boss health and player damage, developer Team Cherry has stepped forward to address the community's tinkering. In a recent interview with Bloomberg reported by Eurogamer's Victoria Phillips Kennedy, William Pellen made it clear that modding the game is totally fine by them, even if the studio itself remains committed to its original design vision.
Team Cherry explained that keeping a strict difficulty balance without built in sliders forces both the developers and the players to deeply engage with the world itself. By refusing to give players a meta level option to simply lower a boss's stats when hitting a wall, the studio builds alternative routes, secrets, and exploration paths directly into the map design. Ari Gibson noted that the years spent playtesting involved hitting those exact same roadblocks and finding creative ways around them, which ultimately rewards thorough exploration just as much as raw combat skill.
For a player base well-versed in custom lobbies, community patches, and modded quality of life improvements, Team Cherry's stance strikes a healthy balance. The developers respect the PC modding scene's right to play their way, while maintaining that the intended experience is designed to push players into finding clever in-world solutions. Whether you are brute-forcing a tough encounter or discovering a hidden crack in the map to bypass a boss entirely, Silksong continues to generate the kind of passionate, active community discussions that keep modern single player games relevant long after launch.
Tags: Hollow Knight Silksong, Team Cherry, PC Gaming, Modding, Action Platformer
Original article: Eurogamer