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Fearless Fox: What We Actually Know
Fearless Fox is a trademark, not a game. Team Cherry registered the name in Australia in 2019 and extended it in 2023, and has said nothing about it since. This page keeps to what is on the record.
- Status Trademark only — never announced
- First filed 2019, Class 9 (Australia)
- Extended 27 Jan 2023 (Class 42), 31 Jan 2023 (Classes 28 and 41)
- Latest movement 5 Aug 2026 — Canadian application 2,269,008 passed examination
Guides
- Sea of SorrowSea of Sorrow is the free Silksong expansion coming in 2026. No release date has been announced yet — here is the full announcement and what is still unknown.
- BossesTeam Cherry has confirmed Sea of Sorrow adds new bosses but has named none. Here is what that means, what Silksong's own roster suggests, and what is guesswork.
- Team CherryTeam Cherry is the Adelaide studio behind Hollow Knight and Silksong. What it has shipped, what it has announced for 2026, and what it has only trademarked.
Fearless Fox is a name on a trademark register. That is the whole of it, and everything below is an attempt to say so precisely rather than to dress it up.
Team Cherry — the Adelaide studio behind Hollow Knight and Hollow Knight: Silksong — filed the words Fearless Fox in Australia in 2019, under the class that covers computer game software. In late January 2023 they filed twice more, widening the mark across video-game services, toys, games and entertainment. Games press covered each filing. None of it came with a statement from the studio, and none has since.
The most recent movement is procedural and very recent. On 5 August 2026 a Canadian application for the mark — number 2,269,008, owned by Team Cherry Pty Ltd — passed examination and was advertised in the trademarks journal, again covering Class 9 computer games and downloadable software. A Reddit user spotted it in the journal and the games press picked it up within days.
What passing examination actually means
This is the part most coverage skips, and it is the reason this page exists.
Clearing examination and being advertised in a journal is a routine stage in every trademark application. Advertisement exists to start an opposition window — a fixed period in which anyone who thinks the mark conflicts with theirs can object. It is a step on the way to registration, not a step on the way to a release.
Headlines described it as the project showing signs of life. What it shows is that a filing from an earlier stage reached its next stage on schedule. A studio keeping a mark alive in another territory is doing ordinary legal housekeeping, and that housekeeping would look exactly the same whether the game ships next year or never.
That is not an argument that nothing is happening. It is an argument that this particular event is not evidence either way, and treating it as a countdown is how a procedural notice becomes a rumour.
What can reasonably be inferred
That the filings exist, and cover the classes they do, makes a video game a sensible expectation. That is genuinely as far as the evidence reaches.
What cannot be inferred is a genre, a setting, a scope, a platform, a relationship to Hollow Knight, or a date. Speculation on all of these is easy to find and none of it traces back to a source. When GamesRadar+ covered the most recent filing they described it as far from evidence of anything imminent — a fair summary of a mark that has sat unannounced for years.
What Team Cherry is doing
The studio’s own December 2025 post is the most recent thing they have said about their plans, and it is worth reading for what it does and does not contain. It announces Sea of Sorrow, a free Silksong expansion coming in 2026, and a Nintendo Switch 2 edition of Hollow Knight in the same year. It ends by saying there are further plans being kept under wraps.
It does not mention Fearless Fox. Readers reliably connect that closing line to this trademark; the post itself does not, and neither will this page.
If you came here looking for something concrete to follow, the expansion above is where the actual news is, and the bosses question covers the part people ask about most — including why no boss has been named yet.
Why this page exists
A trademark with no game attached generates a steady trickle of articles that imply more than they can support. This page is the opposite exercise: the filings, their dates, their classes, and a clear statement of everything still unknown. If Team Cherry announces a game called Fearless Fox, this page will change substantially. Until then it should not.
For background on the studio and what it has actually shipped, see Team Cherry.
Fearless Fox on the record
Class 9 trademark filed in Australia
Team Cherry registers the words Fearless Fox in a category covering computer game software. No announcement accompanies it.
Extended to Class 42
A second filing widens the mark to Class 42, which spans a broad range of video-game-related services.
Extended to Classes 28 and 41
A third filing covers toys, games and entertainment services. Taken together the filings make a video game a reasonable expectation, and say nothing further.
Team Cherry announces its 2026 plans, without mentioning Fearless Fox
The developer's holiday post details the Silksong expansion and a Switch 2 edition of Hollow Knight, then closes by saying it has further plans it is keeping under wraps. It does not name Fearless Fox.
Canadian application passes examination
Application 2,269,008, owned by Team Cherry Pty Ltd of Australia, clears examination in Canada and is advertised in the trademarks journal, covering Class 9 computer games and downloadable game software. It was spotted by a Reddit user and picked up by the games press. Passing examination opens an opposition window — it is a procedural stage, not an announcement.
Fearless Fox at a glance
| Status | Trademark only — never announced |
|---|---|
| First filed | 2019, Class 9 (Australia) |
| Extended | 27 Jan 2023 (Class 42), 31 Jan 2023 (Classes 28 and 41) |
| Latest movement | 5 Aug 2026 — Canadian application 2,269,008 passed examination |
| Announced title | None |
| Release window | None |
Frequently asked questions
Is Fearless Fox Team Cherry's next game?
Nobody outside Team Cherry knows. The trademark filings make a video game a reasonable expectation, but the studio has never announced a project under that name, given it a genre, or attached a release window to it. Treat any article that tells you more than this as speculation.
Which country were the trademarks filed in?
Australia. Team Cherry is an Australian studio based in Adelaide. Filings in other jurisdictions are sometimes reported second-hand; the ones on the record for Fearless Fox are Australian.
Is Fearless Fox connected to Sea of Sorrow?
Nothing published connects them. Sea of Sorrow is the announced Silksong expansion, with its own name and its own 2026 window. Fearless Fox is a separate trademark that predates it by six years and has never been tied to a Hollow Knight title by anyone at Team Cherry.
How long has the trademark existed without an announcement?
Since 2019. That is the single most useful fact about Fearless Fox. It is why coverage resurfaces whenever a filing moves, and why none of that coverage has ever been able to add anything concrete to it.
Does the August 2026 Canadian filing mean the game is coming soon?
Not by itself. Application 2,269,008 passed examination and was advertised in Canada's trademarks journal on 5 August 2026, which is the routine stage that opens an opposition window before registration. It tells you the mark is being maintained in another territory. It does not tell you anything about development progress or a release date, and no announcement accompanied it.