Depends on what you want out of a game like this. Hollow Knight's biggest strength, besides its art style and mechanics, is its sense of exploration and discovery. It is the heir apparent to the Souls games and Bloodborne in that regard; no other games have captured, as well as Hollow Knight, that Souls-esque sense of a sprawling world with history and the descent to darker weirder places, layers upon layers of intricately constructed environments to explore, uncovering cryptic lore and meeting interesting characters as you make your way through a place. The world that Team Cherry constructed is astounding, it's bigger and more smartly designed than you would imagine; it's hard to really appreciate the level of craftsmanship until you're playing and realize how dense it is but also how each area has a logical narrative reason for why it's the way it is and its location on the map.
Wrote this as my blurb for my GOTY list last year
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