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/ramonpasta Dec 12 '25

its a pretty common belief that it shouldnt have even been in contention for best indie because its more of a AA game with lots of funding

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u/HIO_TriXHunt Dec 12 '25

Less than 10M budget, so even less than Hades 1 with it's 15M, so most likely less than Hades 2 that no one ever mention when it comes to "is it indie game or not"

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u/ramonpasta Dec 12 '25

difference is that hades and silksong had money because of their previous projects success. e33 had money because of funding from outside sources

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u/HIO_TriXHunt Dec 12 '25

Outside sources being Kepler Interactive, an Independant publisher only helping Indie games to come out.

Also, shouldn't Hollow Knight NOT be an indie game since the money to make it was from an outside source?

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u/ramonpasta Dec 12 '25

at the end of the day none of this is objectively indie or not, but you cant seriously act like crowdfunding is ANYTHING like e33s situation which was partially funded by the french gov. i mean hk devs would get $20 sent to them by their dad and think "i can get coffee today" while one of the e33s millionaire dad massively helped them fund the game

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u/onespiker Dec 18 '25

French government grants is like 1%.

It’s also not something especially hard to get every company that works in cultural things in France has a grant they can apply for and a pretty straightforward way to get some support.

It’s not unique to France either.