Hopefully equipped with suitable personal protective equipment, one brave Hollow Knight: Silksong scholar extracted and analyzed 260,000 Steam user reviews of the game to quantify trends in what people like about Team Cherry's critically acclaimed, but unabashedly cruel, sequel. The results absolutely will not shock you.
YouTuber and *checks notes* game dev Newbie Indie Game Dev took a magnifying lens to Silksong's Steam reviews in a recent video study (video by Nati Mendez, per the description). The data, which covers nearly all of Silksong's current 277,451 Steam reviews (which are 85% positive), is presented via a few categories that primarily examine how frequently certain words and phrases were used, and how they correlate to positive or negative reviews.
