How much do you think this game would cost to make?

[Doknesss]

I saw this article that said that Hollow Knight earned 70 million AUD, and the average AAA is 80 million. So Silksong will be a massive improvement with their budget and game, obviously. What do you guys think?

[Alsart Savience]

First off, even if of course TC has a much large budget to work on the game, there's NO way we are going to reach a cost a large as a AAA, lmao; it's still just a 2D game made only by 3 people, with little to no marketing behind it, and the only other major cost it would have would be the composer which is now working with an actual Orchestra to make the Silksong's soundtrack, but that's it really.
Even if the game will cost more purely because they can implement as much stuff as they want without having to worry about money or time, it's not some massive project that would require very large budget to begin with, even if they have access to it.
At the very least it's sure they will finish it with all the ideas they wanted in the game and implemented properly, something that actually didn't happened with Hollow Knight, since at some point they literally run out of money and were forced to release it as it was at that point.

[Envixity]

too much

[Phirestar]

As far as the budget for development goes, it's worth pointing out that the original game had a Kickstarter funding of just $56K, which is virtually pennies in the context of the gaming industry. I think most games are a couple hundred thousand at minimum.

Silksong will very likely be a fair amount higher, however, as the game is both greater in scope and has now been in development for a longer period of time than Hollow Knight. If I am getting the numbers and information right, Hollow Knight took about 3.5 years to create, while Silksong has supposedly been in development since 2017, meaning that its development cycle is almost twice as long.

Maybe twice the cost, then?