The Hollow Knight: Silksong delirium reaches its pitchfork stage as former playtester saying the game isn't 'in dev hell' gets eviscerated for it

The Silksong community is, as you'd imagine, a little fraught right now—without a peep of news from the Summer Game Fest or Nintendo Direct, nor a public statement from increasingly enigmatic developer Team Cherry, it has an appetite for information I can only describe as starved, a result of 700 plus days of silence.

Things have continued to spiral after some offhand comments from a former playtester who goes by the name of Your Mate Graig on the Hollow Knight Discord (thanks, GamesRadar). While he claims to have been the lead tester for Silksong (a statement that has gone unchallenged by Team Cherry for months), he left the studio to work on his own game, Roc's Odyssey, some time ago.

Graig stated Tuesday, June 18 that he «literally know[s] they are not in dev hell»—a pretty innocuous confirmation that would be uneventful in most circumstances but, like a flock of understandably pissed seagulls descending on a scrap of meat, Silksong's subreddit proceeded to eviscerate him over it.

Upset users accused Graig of a history of «toying with people», and even turned on each other for trusting him, calling it a level of «cope I didn't think was possible.»

There's a couple of layers to this semi-pariah status—one, Graig has a reputation for being a bit of a troll. He rather publicly flew off the handle at impatient skongers last year, though he's also had far more sympathetic moments towards the fanbase as well.

Two, he's the closest Team Cherry has to an official mouthpiece right now, which is lunacy. I want to state, plainly, that I'm not at all interested in raking someone over the coals who has no real obligation to be nice or communicative in any specific way. It's not his job to do that. It's just that no-one else is.

The strangeness of this situation has been entirely created by Team Cherry's silence—Graig hasn't been asked to stop, but he's also the only one saying anything. Team Cherry hasn't peeped so much as a «it's still in development» since the Xbox showcase