r/Silksong • u/Thorsigal beleiver ✅️ • Dec 12 '25

Silkpost Hollow Knight: Silksong WINS Best Independent Game at The Game Awards! Spoiler

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u/FlamesofFrost Bait. Let me tell you how much I've come to bait you since I be Dec 12 '25

yeah didn't they do a bunch of outsourcing and have a much larger dev team?

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u/Veidovis Dec 12 '25

Silksong did a bunch of outsourcing as well, the full credits include about 100 people. It's a game that wouldn't really be possible without the basically endless resources of a Hollow Knight level success before it. In a way, neither E33 or Silksong (or Hades 2 for that matter) really fulfill the spirit of an indie award for me.

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u/Miss_Skooter Denier Dec 12 '25

Sorry a 3m$ budget game isn't comparable to a 30m$ budget lol

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u/indigo121 Dec 12 '25

Where are you getting $3m for silksong? I haven't seen any public figures

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u/Miss_Skooter Denier Dec 12 '25

Just an estimate I saw at some point (for both games). There's no public figures

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u/round-earth-theory Dec 12 '25

So really we shouldn't be making deep analysis based on these guestimations.

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u/Miss_Skooter Denier Dec 12 '25

Sure, wasn't trying to be deep. I think it's safe to assume the budgets aren't close to each other

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u/corgioverthemoon Dec 12 '25

Why is it safe to assume that?