>>718700437
>What's so special about hollow knight?
it came out at the perfect time, it was a cute charming game while all big releases were zombie slop, the community that was built around it kept growing while the DLC that was coming out kept them fed

there was a direct line from all the mainstream dark souls youtube slop that permeated into hollow knight too, that was probably its biggest contributor of success, all that secret hunting and figuring out different ending and such, it was also cheap and accessible enough to the average casual so there was a sense that people were getting into a future "hidden gem"

when people start getting together and talking about a common thing, that common thing gets very big, despite of its actual qualities

it was a process very similar to undertale where, people heard about it being good from other people and there was a rush to play it and tell other people I suppose, that kind of stuff just snowballs