Enthusiast Analyzed 260,000 Hollow Knight Silksong Reviews and Highlighted the Game's Main Problems

Someone decided to delve into the reviews and examine them carefully.

Hollow Knight Silksong has attracted a huge number of players and received many reviews. Many have heard that the project was criticized for poor translation into Chinese and "difficulty", and a user with the nickname Newbie Indie Game Dev decided to delve deeper and highlight more specific problems of the game.

He analyzed almost all Silksong reviews on Steam - about 260 thousand pieces. Then he compiled a graph with popular words, which reflected their frequency, sorted by tonality.

• There are complaints about the economy: they complain about "grind".
• Phrases related to enemies dealing double damage tend to be more negative, with approximately 45% - 60% positive tone (tonality).

• There are mentions of "long runs" - players are unhappy that they need to return to bosses, the placement of checkpoints also does not please some members of the community.
• The reviews mention FromSoftware projects - Dark Souls and Elden Ring, they are found about 1700 times and at the same time 67% with a positive tone.
• Reviews that mention flying enemies are mostly negative, and the "many flying enemies" themselves have 43.48% positive reviews in 69 reviews.

Newbie Indie Game Dev admits that his methodology is not ideal (a positive review may include a negative comment about difficulty / bosses, so the result is distorted). Nevertheless, this work gives a certain idea of the "pains" of the community.