How the fuck did they manage to do this?
>>719654395Doesn't this just mean the next two months are going to have 2x the indie shit games competing?
>1700 indieslop games competing for 20 bucksgrim
Shutting up and working instead of releasing 20 "DEV LOG" videos.
>>719654395>>719654569september in general is a packed month for everyone. its when every live service game is releasing their big update.
>>719654569I don't think he's going to be in this one.
>shovelware and DEI trash cowering in fear at fairly priced feature-complete games
It's great how many HK fans are playing it for the first time.
You know what would have been the actual smart thing? To change your game's release date to September 4th once Silksong did. "Play our game instead if you're not a bitch."The sheer cheek lel
i am officially in full blown indie fatigue
>>719654858I hate Bandwagoning faggots.
>>719654918I hope that is because you've been playing too many indies and not because randoms keep posting ragebait articles against indie devs on /v/
Hollow knight is for 30 year old troons that love Tim Burton movies and Invader Zim
>>719655010im looking forward to them all buying it, only 30% of them actually playing it, and 80% of that 30% dropping it after an hour and never touching it again
>>719655010Yeah, nothing makes my blood boil and ruins a game for me more than when people I don't know and will never meet spend money that isn't mine.
>>719654795that guy looks straight out of hazbin hotel yet zoomers keep jerking off "the art" in HK?
>>719654825>picBeen fuckin years since I've seen that one
>>719655267yes anon, it's all evil queers. no mass appeal whatsoever. only those dastardly transgenders
>>719654918Seethe and die, industrycuck.
>>719654858I played the original HK but ended up dropping it because the game got tedious and boring after deepnest
Jesus, there are 1700+ indie games in production?
>>719654395I hate how arrogant faggots who consume indieslop are. Fucking disgusting.
>>719655686most of them are slop or not even worth to mention
>>719654395I COMMAND THEE KNEEL
ARGENTINO FEMBOY
Repost:Without sufficient basis, this doesnt really mean anything, what is the evidence 7/10 games were cancelled, why is there no relative comparison to prior years. Or even prior months beyond september, to ground a frame of reference how truly uncommon this is.And most importantly, why was this done now with zero frame of reference for what the expected steam releases were before Silksong was announced.And theres even more to prod.None of this is contexualized. Is that graph games released since September started, or games expected to release in September?And finally: None of this matters because 90% of games released on steam are garbageware that shouldnt be released anyway.
some people will legitimately an hero once they play this and realize it didn't live up to their impossible expectations
>>719654395All of this could have been avoided if they released it six or seven years ago when the game was complete and people weren't rabid about it.
>>719655982>Reddit spacing
>>719655552
>>719655010There's nothing wrong with that if they learn the lore and understand what the game is about. Those people are the reason why Silksong will be a success and why they'll end up releasing more games or a third installment.
>>719656015Unironically why I eagerly await FF7 remake part 3.
>>719655643HK is just another bandwagon game. It's not terrible, it's just not t3h greetest thang evar!1But insufferable losers have made it their entire personality which leads to endless shill threads and millions of sales to people who will never finish it but don't want to get banned off reddit for saying they didn't care for it.When Silksong comes out and sells 10% of HK, there will be endless "why did it fail?" threads filled with seething HK lifers angry that their middling flash-tier art metroid isn't the most important game ever made.
>>719654395lol the indie slop fears the Hornet
>>719655686The image is implying there were 1700 games scheduled for release in September alone.
>>719656630You underestimate India and Russia's capabilities to shit out indieslop on an hourly basis.Sex with hitler 8 and Femboy Goatfucker Simulator are going to lose tens of dollars having to delay until October.
>>719656015There's that Half Life 3 rumor as well. Wonder how that's gonna go. Alyx was pretty good though so that's a good sign.
>>719655404Hollow Knight came out in 2017 you tard, if anything Hazbin Hotel came straight out of Hollow Knight
How many more ragebait threads do we need?
I wish there was some quality control on steam. Too bad shit is about to get even worse, when you can create games with an AI.
Silksong is going to kill GTA 6
I asked I the other thread but everyone's gooning. Can someone answer why this game is the big zeitgeist right now?
>>719657310It's the first AAA indie.
>>719657310It's not.
>>719657310>three fucks made a game for cheap that many people liked>sold 15 millions>the sequel was hyped due to a lack of news>hype boiled over 7 years>explodes all at once when they announce the game is coming out in two weeks>you are now here
1 in 10,000 games is worth playing.
>>719657310You must be underage to have to ask a question like this. Good thing for you 4chan no longer has active moderation.
>>719657310idk the original game was some shitty copy of shovel knight that couldn't even come up with an original name to pretend like their 2d slop wasn't another 2d slop but they released before the indiepocalypse so they sold enough to become 8 figure millionaires, now they're so rich they can sell at race to the bottom and steal the lunch money of real indie devs
>>719657770>some shitty copy of shovel knightNobody tell him.
What's so great about silksong that hasn't been done a million times now?
>>719657871i even checked wikipedia and shovel knight released in 2014 and shollow knight in 2017. jewish liar. all 2d devs and 2d players should be banned from playing and making games. i hate you jew
>>719658039seethe harder
>>719658039Bug sex or something.
>>719657871faggot
>>7196580392D Soulslike Metroidvania was special in 2017. It isn't today but thanks to the first game, it created a legacy to carry the sequel.
>>719654395at this point releasing in september is a good idea, lots of your competition just disappeared
>>719654569It's even funnier given how indies are supposed to be about artistic integrity and love for the medium so sales numbers shouldn't matter in the slightest.
>>719658214
>>719654716Cope.
>>719658039bugs
>>719657545It'll be the same with Haunted Chocolatier when Eric finally stops fucking around with Stardew.
>>719654395I seriously don't get the hype for this.
>>719659463The idea is that it'll be like HK and Terraria where it's constant free DLCs so the game will not only play way better than HK it'll also be far longer and with more shit to do
You simply cannot release thousands of games a month, your catalogue will hit a million eventually, filters won't contain all the shit. They should have quality controlled it. FUCK INDIE GAMES!!! FUCK BAD GAMES IT'S A SHITTY SIDE SCROLLER FUCK IT.
>>719654395>the zeroranger devs will use this as an excuse to not release black onion this year eitherNOOOOO FUCK YOU SILKSONG
>>719654395I figure people are gonna buy this in droves, so it won't matter if I just go ahead and pirate, right?
>>719660083the devs are already millionaires, they won’t care
>>719660083As long as you buy it later when it goes on sale
>>719660083I pirated Hollow Knight and loved it and I'm going to do the same with Silksong.
>>719660083>it won't matter if I just go ahead and pirate, right?Correct.They wont kick down your door over $20 like Nintendo.
>>719654395>canceled their games>"oh no indieslop came out?? It's over... cancel the game despite the thousands of man hours and millions of dollars spent developing our game."Really? Just delay it.
>>719658376They shouldn't matter but its practical to not try to get washed away and never seen again for no one to ever see.Like running ads during the superbowl on a different channel.It doesn't cost anything to move a release date.
>>719660083I expect the game to move 5 million copies in its first month.
>>719658376well you can't eat or pay bills with raw "artistic integrity and love for the medium" so I don't blame them for caring about money
>>719654395>I CAN'T COMPETE
>>719660486you are one special kind of retard
I don't know why, but I hate this game. I hope it flops.
>>719660775average brown skinned non-sentient /v/ resident
>>719660775>I don't know whyWe know why.
>>719660083Devs are rolling in money and are going to be drowning it when Silksong releasesIf you really like it you can buy it later that's what I did with Nine Sols
>>719654795He could be since Silksong's frame story is Hornet going somewhere else and Grimm is part of a traveling troupe in the lore. He's really one of the few bosses they could justify an encounter with.
>>719660608Any indie dev with a brain isn't basing their livelihood on releasing their game.They have a day job.If they don't theyre either a fool or are already financially comfortable
>>719657071It's modern /v/, we'll have them for another month. The shitposters and attention whores will stop caring about Hollow Knight and start making Pokemon threads as we get closer to release.
>>719660775It's impossible for it to flop. 20 fucking bucks dude.
>>719654395I guess it really is the GTA6 of indiesGod dayum
>>719661065I banished them so no way, Count Fag.
>>719661065He's a mothHornet's a spider
>>719660334I've gotten so many copyright infringement notices from this jew company, literally no other company does anything but this one goes after you for torrenting a 30 year old midi file from slsk. Unreal how jewish they are.
>>719657602I am literally in my gaming rocking chair you damn wipper snapper
>>719660667>they cancel their games>I'm the retard
>>719654395Marketers use data like people spamming SILKSONG in chat as their indicator that a game is popular. Then they tell their marketing department to stay clear of that game's release schedule.
>>719654654>The developer of the game I'm waiting for has realeased 65 developer's log videos>The game was supposed to be released back in 2023
>>719662218Sounds like some very lazy and crappy marketers.
>>719657052Hazbin was being worked on in like 2014. We used to have threads shitting on it in dev.
>>719655404you're an obsessed tranny
>>719662317Those are the ones paid by billion dollar companies. Indie devs don't have a marketing department.
>>719656047Concession accepted
>>719657310>right nowI fucking hate you zoomer tourists so much it's unreal, take your AAA niggercattle ass and kill yourself
>>719662453Sounds like some very clever and jewish marketers.
>>719655282Sounds like your average /v/ poster.Only they also have 1,000 vidya games in their backlog they haven't touched in years.
>>719658376Now you're thinking like Artists who get butthurt over AI.They only cared about the money.
>>719654395Yeah king of the indy slop is coming out what did you expect?
>>719662819holy trvke
>>719662819I want to like AI but the sheer amount of pahjeets shilling it and using it to compensate for their complete lack of discernable skills is appalling. No, I will not fucking redeem the AIslop.
>>719654858>>719655010>friends and family are now enjoying something I have for years>I now have more to bond over with themWhat's the downside?
>>719663060>I want to like Photoshop but the sheer amount of pahjeets shilling it and using it to compensate for their complete lack of discernable skills is appalling.
>>719663060Post art.
>>719654509Yup.Golden time to release your game IMO if it's ready in Sept. Mine won't be ready till Nov. Fuck.
>>719663092>What's the downside?The game is too popular you're not allowed to like it anymore
>>719654395I don't care about your gay hype bullshit.
>>719662819That's pretty accurate. Everyone that can do the work enjoys it anyway but people that are wanting to control others works are losing their shit they can no longer do so.
>>719663134I'm not an artist. I'm an engineer.
>>719658039It is super metroidbut with bugs.also it is bigger with even more secret content.
>>719663202Oh darn, guess I'll just hate these extra hours I put into it.
>>719654395hk is fucking boring idgi
>>719659845It's not even on the same planet as Terraria, go away.
>>719663134I think the anon's point is he wants to get better filters so he's not always seeing it.
>>719654395this is like when you're too high level in rpgs and the enemies run away from you
>>719654395Don't care. I buy games years after they've come out usually. Initial releases are utterly irrelevant.
>>719663389Anon would get annoyed with grass textures if he knew they be AI, wouldn't he?
>>719663578I mean they are claiming to be an engineer so that's likely. You ever been around them? It's like being stuck with tip guides always telling how things are bad and could be better.
>>719654395I don't fucking understand the appeal hollow knight was utterly unremarkable in every single way this has got to be the most astroturfed shit ever
>>719663959posted it again award
>>719663959seethe niggercattle, seetheyoure gonna stroke out in less than 2 days
>>719663959>this indie game by a bunch of nobodies is the most astroturfed game everdo you even listen to yourself? How would the afford and EA or Ubisoft tier astroturfing campaign?
>>719664951Well maybe Ubisoft.
>>719663959It was the first metroidvania for a lot of children who are now old enough to post here.
>>719663959I have a theory that Hollow Knight is so popular because the player character looks like the reddit mascot.
>>719655267you're making me want to give it another shot
>>719657310thirdie zoomers love it because their computers can't run anything else, nor can they afford a console to play gta on
>>719654395
nobody went this crazy for palworld
>>719666023well played
>>719666023Epic! So much this! This meme is an hero!
>>719666023lmao
>>719666023HOLY SHIT LMFAO XD I SPIT OUT MY DRINK
>>719666643>>719666474These but unironically.
Did the devs do the bug voices?
>>719666474>>719666643you are so fucking mad dude. which one of the hundreds of delayed indie games was yours? how many years did you spend on it to get gaped by team cherry?
>>719666023holy based so kino! what is this a reference to?
>>719660083You need to buy. Jack can't afford xers newest dilator otherwise
Will we get a sequel to brapanada?
>>719666023+1 internets to you good sir and or madam
>>719666023jej
>>719666023Just sent this to my friends discord and we all cracked up in voice!
Why does Reddit love this mediocre metroidvania so much?
>719666474>719666643>719666790>719666964>719667052Samefag nonsense. Not even giving you a (you). Kys faggot + stay mad.
>>719667164posted it again award
>>719667210Answer the question
>>719666474let me guess, "7 years of silence!! so unfair!!" bro?
>>719654569and it's only getting worse
>>719666023>>719666157>>719666474>>719666507put me on the screencap
>>719658376money makes people work harder
>>719654569
>>719654395*flops*
>>719654858Fuckers had 8 years to play it and they think 2 days before the sequel is a good time to start.
>>719656213God I want him to breed the fuck out of her so bad..
I rarely hear anyone talk about Hollow Knight. This is actually pretty surprising to me. I know it became a running joke that they were never going to release the sequel(?) or dlc or whatever. It's just an average Metroid game. What an odd reaction to this.
>>719667403If that was the case than WEG devs would finish their fucking games.
OMG IM SOOOOO HECKIN' EXCITED Y'ALL!!!HOLLO KNIGHT WAS MY CHILDHOODLITERALLY THE BEST GAME EVER IT HELPED ME SOOO MUCH DURING MY TRANSITION!
>>719666709Devs are around half the voices and the rest are family and acquaintances
>>719667607posted it again award
>>719667620You're confusing it with undertroon or deltatroon
>>719667615is there a weg game thats NOT been a full-blown scam?
>>719667685>My tranny game is better than your tranny game!
>>719667696Princess & Conquest?
>>719658376What the fuck are they supposed to eat, you fucking retard
>>719667647>>719666709>I jerk off while listening to the voice of one of the developers' relatives or acquaintancesI don't know how to feel about this.
>>719667961bapanada
>>719654395is this really gonna be another helldivers 2, elden ring or baldurs gate 3. where 100 million people play the sequel because of FOTM when they never played the original
>>719658376The indie scene is entirely corporatized now. How do you think people get funds for their shitty by the numbers roguelike deck builder slop?
>>719667403Yes but this is still Gabe's worst take.Granted the fact that THIS is Gabe's worst take is impressive in its own right for how much of a nothingburger it is compared to some of the shit I've seen other devs/industrybros spouting, but still.
>>719662093Yes.
>>719667853You aren’t supposed to bet your entire life savings and have a 3 year gap on your resume to work on your shitty roguelike deckbuilder, you should have a day job while working on your game on the side
>>719668020oh shit they made an elden ring sequel?
>>719667853The instant noodles that the buy with the money they make from their day job.That's what Team Cherry did. Wait, you thought the game dev stuff WASN'T a side gig? Anon, I...
>>719654395Is there a single AAA game that was cancelled? Why would they be worried about a 20 dollar game? It's not a full price game so it shouldn't eat into their profits. No one cares about hundreds of indie slop asset flip games on steam. Not actually news
>>719668128>don't work for yourself but make your boss richerFuck off
>>719667853You know you can have a job and commit to your art. I don't know why artists act like they need to sit down for 12 hours to get their work done.
>>719668295>give me free money for doing nothing worthwhile Fuck off
Australians can destroy the entire gaming scene just by releasing a game.THIS is what real power is.This world is Australian, we just let you cunts go walkabout in it.God is a Larrikin.
>>719666023Fantastic.
>>719667853Why are they indie developers if they need to make money?
Even SRW Y, easily one of the worst releases of 2025, was ballsy enough to not be intimidated by Silksong.
>>719668538>decide to participate in capitalism by making my own game and putting it on the free market >it fails because steam has an anti-dev bias and pushes friendslop and f2p shooters on the front page >game gets 7 reviews, 4 of them negative crying about a 60 fps lock on a 2D game>get kicked out of my apartment because I can’t afford rent >die on the streets because I can’t afford foodWow, t-thanks capitalism…
>>719669536skill issueEven single moms can do better than you
>>719654716>>719654716>>719654716Why? What happens in September
>>71966986795% of games flop, the issue is the system not the victims of the system
>>71966996995% of games flop because they're shit and no one wants to buy your shitty game when Minecraft exists.
God I wish they'd allow pre-orders so I can preload the game. I mean, I know it's only gonna be like 10 GB, but I literally don't wanna waste a single second NOT playing the game as soon as it releases. I even took off work for this.>unlocks 9AM EST on ThursdayFuck you, release it at midnight you aussie cunts. Actually, considering they're aussies, they should release it midnight ACT, which would be Wednesday 10am according to the time zone conversion.
>>719670125No, your Skinner box garbage is what’s killing gaming. Real art is being made and you people shill for old games that should have died years ago
>>719654395simply made a good game
>>719670313Can you give examples of '''Real art''' that deserves more money that Minecraft?
Bugmen devs fear the BIG BUG NEEDLEA fear so rank you can smell it.
>>719670417Okami
>>719658039We don't know, it's not out yet.
>>719670281it's 10 AM EST
>>719670712my bad, I can't mathanyways that just means I lose another hour in the day to play Silksong and that is just unacceptable
>>719669950q3 ends at the end of september.every it company/gamedev pushes out their games and updates before the end of a quarter.for example 25h2 windows just came out recently:https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/08/29/releasing-windows-11-version-25h2-to-the-release-preview-channel/when windows gets a major update like this, every pc game pretty much needs to update too since they're relying on directx agility or other windows technologies tied to windows update.
>>719654395Silksong will have a bigger release than GTA6.
It was nice of Team Cherry to give Rockstar a heads up so they could delay GTA6
>>719666023Epic, simply epic...
>>719654395The power of SHAW
>>719666023Amen
>australians destroy steam and itch by siccing payment processors on everyone>proceed to destroy it AGAIN by releasing silksong and ruining the indie scene for years to comeI hate australians so fucking much, moot was right
>>719655282>I'm looking forward to the thing that happens to every game ever released hahaOk
>>719668395We gave these drongos wifi as well and they made themselves gayer with it. Can't be helped mate, crack a cold one, point and laugh.
>>71965439599% of indie games releases are fucking garbage, so nothing of value is lost
>>719672251Fuckin' oath cunt
>>719655267Based.
>>719660083>5 million sales>one month later>first boss defeated achievement <50%>completed the game <10%You can at least be a part of the 10%
>>719658039Polish, retard. That's the main deal about TC's approach as seen in Hollow Knight.Also I'm hoping Silksong will be a proper huge game, larger than HK, and that you can actually get really lost in its map. I'd be really disappointed if it turned out to be more linear than HK was.
I played 5 hours of hollow Knight and didn't get the hype
I will buy Borderlands 4 instead of sliksoy
>>719658376Money and sales is proof if something is artistically good or not. If something doesn't sell, it's not good art.
>>719658376That's completely bullshit lmao they're making products like everybody else unless they have a job that can pay for their shitThe idea of artists making art for the love of the art is confused with pure hobbyists and even the old ass "masters" like sculptors and painters had patrons (literally where Patreon comes from)
>>719654395It'll be funny if they push it back, again. I want to see the meltdown.
>>719656596>you now remember the time jannies
>>719654654>DEV HOURWait, what's "dev hour"?
>>719657176Careful, anon, lest the monkey's paw curls.
>>719663092Normalfags are frequently just posers, and even surface level conversation about the bandwagon target can easily expose it. Someone post the thing where the normalfags force the old fans out.
>>719655868Goated first boss for no reason. They really got it so right.
>>719654395Tax laundering?
>>719655643I love this game, but I also had a similar issue.It becomes nothing but backtracking and back and forth and the fights become miserable from then onward. Like worse than Miquella for me.
>>719656596Why FF7?FF6 is miles better.
>>719658039You know why it's been done a million times now?Because of Hollow Knight. That's why.
>>719662326And you think these devs in particular weren't making Hollow Knight for years?
>>719661004I like how HK and 9sols fans are just like>we like them bothThis doesn't happen in other game niches.
>>719667853Shut up Martin.
>>719663030AI never stopped me from using actually good original art out there.It just stopped me from using the terrible shit.The problem is when AI artists start to get greedy themselves. That can fuck right off.
>>719671381ADEEDO!
>>719654395Rabid and violent cultist fanbase
>>719670583Talk about shilling for an old game. Really encouraging people to fund new games with that recommendation there, eh?
>>719668395>Australians can destroy the entire gaming scene just by releasing a game.>THIS is what real power is.And government might destroy that power again like it has done so in the past with things like censorship. Australia used to the be a place people released games and films and the censors didn't give a fuck.Then 2001 happened and it's been the complete opposite since because of OPSEC. It's fucking ridiculous.
>>719678213Play her game or I will burn your family. This is your last warning.
>>719654395a bad game sells poorly any month of a year.
>>719678043Cursed image.
Reminder that Hornet is NOT part spiderThe king of Deepnest that died was a spider and his wife was a "common beast"
>>719656047Newfag trying to fit in
>>719663030>>719662819Funny headcanon. In reality, all of the most vocal AI defenders are bitter NGMIs who harbor resentment for successful artists. Not sure what this reddit shit has to do with HK though.
>>719660083I pirated Hollow Knight and regretted not just buying it after getting 112% completion.
>>719678628I don't think AI artists are the ones telling others to kill themselves, but its cute you think otherwise.Continue to go after legit artists, you're doing wonderful for the cause.
>>719654395s*lksong will cause untold damage to this Industry. I urge everyone that cares for indie developers to boycott this 'game'.
>>719678746>Continue to go after legit artists???
>>719654858hk sold 15 millionthe bg3 tranny thread is that way
>>719666507AGIDO!
>>719666023Based beyond belief.
>>719654795I cannot unsee Lelouch and Persona 5 Joker in his design.
>>719678904>>719678746>>719678628What's funnier is that both "real artists" and "AI artists" infringe copyright with their art. Aus government wants both banned for that and their mere relation to cliques that make loli pron, merely because they look like real child pron.
>>719678293HOR___IS___WINNET
If your game is sub $40 and actually good its release date doesn't matter. These indie devs need to stop sniffing their own farts.
>>719679819I think the problem is that these "indie" game corps are not even indie and are just a corporate facade. Hence the marketing tactics we normally see with AAA devs. True indie devs don't give a shit because it takes time for the game to get momentum.That said, Cherry really is pushing the concept of "indie" pretty far now considering it's arguably a sizeable body corporate (at least with capital) now that it's arguably getting close to AAA. It just doesn't have the contractual tethers you normally see with AAA (they're called AAA for their credit rating if newfags don't get the term). But with that much money, you have to ask questions about whether they are really indie at this point. Surely they would have done shit to manage the tax issues better right? That's the point it becomes a AAA body corporate for me. I don't know why Fromsoft have been considered non-AAA when they've been relying on credit ratings to float their ass for decades now.
>>719658039Nothing. It's also fun how fags pretend Hallow Knight back in 2017 was a novel experience as well. It wasn't.
>>719654395Oof guess all the games coming out in the months after are just fraudulent dodgers
>>719680162I don't think being financially secure makes them not indie, at the end of the day they're not answering to anyone but themselves still and they're are not managing some huge team
I'm here to make fun of you furfags and your overrated game.
>>719654395Memes
>>719662819Holy based
>>719657176Wrong. AI will unleash everyone's creativity and gaming will see the largest renaissance in history. AI empowered games are the future and you will be eating your words once you see how fast and good AI games can reach the market and create revenue.
>>719654395The protagonist of the first game will be the final boss, calling it now.
>>719667493You can beat it in like 15 hours it's not that long. Metroidvania are great binge games I beat them in 1 or 2 sittings.
