2026’s Best Metroidvania Might Outclass Hollow Knight: Silksong Already

Okay, so I’ve been following Silksong and while most people on Steam seem to really like it, it’s not without its flaws. The game is absolutely beautiful – the art style is unique and the worlds are incredibly detailed, making exploration a real treat. However, it can be pretty tough! The open-ended design, while cool, sometimes left me feeling lost and a little frustrated, especially when I first started playing.






![A localized mutation within a brane tiling-acting along hexagonal faces-reconfigures the periodic quiver geometry on a 2-torus without altering the underlying structure or the mesonic moduli space of the associated [latex]\mathcal{N}=1[/latex] superconformal field theories, effectively realizing a specific series of Seiberg dualities.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.20936v1/x1.png)
