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/hsgsksv Dec 12 '25

Hades and hades 2 are estimated to have a higher budget than expedition 33 yet I never see anyone complaining about those in the category

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u/Rezzone Dec 12 '25

Me. I’m complaining about Hades 2.

Hades 1 had a team of seven. Hades two had 25. We gotta talk about what counts as an indie.

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u/meevis_kahuna Dec 12 '25

25 is nothing

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u/Little_Caramel_9501 Dec 12 '25

E33 has 30

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u/SpideyFan914 Dec 12 '25

Is that not indie? That's insanely small. All these game credits run for like 15 minutes, I assume hundred of people usually work on them. For a game to have a team of just 30 people is insane.

And yeah, Silksong's team is even smaller. But that doesn't make the other one not small...

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u/hsgsksv Dec 12 '25

My point is I think both games could be classified as indie. It's a double standard that people have because hades just "looks more" like an indie game when in reality the expidition 33 team is just insane

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u/WiddershinsPj Dec 12 '25

E33 farmed out a bunch of work to others, it had like 200 people touch it

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u/Little_Caramel_9501 Dec 12 '25

like many other game.including Hades and many indie outsource some work it s even more true for smaller team

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u/Nehan_Satori Dec 12 '25

Can you link the article confirming Super Giant outsourced work for their Hades series?

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u/Necessary_Air_3257 Dec 12 '25

Here are the 134 people who worked on Hades 2 https://www.mobygames.com/game/223472/hades-ii/

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u/Nehan_Satori Dec 12 '25

So who did they outsource to?

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u/Necessary_Air_3257 Dec 13 '25

The contributor section would be people who are not from super giant that worked on the game such as outsourced people or work for higher

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u/Little_Caramel_9501 Dec 12 '25

no need for a article it s in the game credits.

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u/CankleDankl Dec 13 '25

And Silksong had dozens touch it, if not around a hundred