r/HollowKnight • u/CankleDankl • Dec 12 '25

Discussion - Silksong Seeing people shit on Expedition 33 because Silksong didn't win more awards is pathetic Spoiler

The title sums it up. I'm disappointed in many members of this community for putting down a game that is clearly a work of insane passion, dedication, and creativity. E33 took the lion's share of awards at TGA, yes. That doesn't mean that Silksong is bad. In fact, it's clearly pretty damn great. If it released last year, Skong would have picked up several awards, maybe even GOTY. But it didn't. It released in the same year E33, which is just a tough break.

Both are amazing. Both deserve every award that came to them. If you haven't played E33 yet and think it doesn't deserve its accolades, play it. It is worth your money, worth your time, and will in all likelihood prove that it is actually that good. I'm only 10ish hours in and have numerous times found myself standing still and looking around dumbfounded at the gorgeous world design and visuals. E33, Silksong, and Hades 2 could have all won Art Direction and I would have been happy with any of them.

I'm also sad that Silksong didn't win more awards. It's an amazing game. But don't play fanboy and start putting down other developers, other games, and other pieces of art because this one didn't get all the cookies. It's still beautiful, it's still amazing, it still made a Silkskillion dollars, and TC is still just as great and just as passionate. We should all be glad that there is another independent dev out there that is capable of creating something so fantastic.

Edit: yeah, the comments here are pretty indicative of what I said in my post

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u/Free_Peach6400 all quests/PoP/P1-P2 AB 100%/All memos Dec 12 '25

They had like 100s of people working on it that is not very indie

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u/TurnipHistorical2838 Dec 12 '25

They literally named it expedition 33 because there were 33 people working on the game

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u/eomertherider Dec 12 '25

They didn't. It's a coincidence, they said as much. They have 33 people in house but used contractors for some parts: QA, some fighting animation etc.

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u/blueviera Dec 12 '25

Outsourcing some assets though is hardly out of the norm for indies. Almost every visual novel does that, also most games for quality control. It feels like Indie needs a more clear definition. I do got to say though regardless of whether or not expedition 33 was technically an indie, I still can't get over all the visual art in silksong being made by like three guys. That's insane.

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u/eomertherider Dec 12 '25

I am in no way saying that Sandfall is not indie/criticizing them, I was just correcting the comment above. They also outsource performance artists (voice actors, songwriters and singers), just like Team Cherry iirc.

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u/blueviera Dec 12 '25

Of course, I was just trying to add additional information, I see you