I enjoy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup played in the terminal with ASCII graphics. I wonder whether there are other hidden gems out there which don’t get attention because they are “ugly”?
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Caves of quid.
I have had some people refuse to even try Baba Is You, because it looks ugly.
I had The Hex a few years even installed, so I have tried it, but only after getting familiar with the style of Daniel Mullins’ games with Inscryption I pushed far enough to get interested. Still very clunky, but worth it.
Baba is… Fuck you, you’re stupid, this game is stupid. Fuck you.
I’m stupid 😔
I have had some people refuse to even try Baba Is You, because it looks ugly.
Oh come on, the art style is charming!
I felt like a the Hex was one of the most innovative games, I loved it soooo much.
I love both the style and soundtrack of that game. Maybe it’s a little too “lowfi” for some people. That’s the only way I can imagine someone not liking it.
Who is saying that Baba is You is ugly? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that opinion. It’s always just been “charming Flash game aesthetic” for me
Bannerlord! Although maybe it could be argued that it’s not “ugly” per se… curious what others think
Seeing a fully armored horse ragdoll across the sky as my Fians melt Imperials is nothing but beautiful.
Kenshi came to mind as that’s a butt ugly game but probably not as “hidden”. Graphics look on par with Empire Earth 1 zoomed in but it’s really unique and original and the low poly look helps it run on my aging PC so no complaints.
Do you know if there is a good lemmy community for discussing Kenshi? I was about to go on a huge tangent about my experience with the game and stopped myself because this comment section probably isn’t the right place. ^^;;
I don’t know I’m new and still finding stuff. Also I’ve only scratched the surface of Kenshi ATM but if you do find one post it and I’ll join too.
West of Loathing and its sequel Shadows of Loathing have a bland grayscale artstyle on the outside but they’re absolutely hilarious RPGs that have a lot of heart to them.
The loathing series is an absolute gem
Man I played their browser game way back when, the humor was pretty funny, but I haven’t been able to make time to consider trying their console games.
You should give it a shot, it’s pretty fun and West of Loathing isn’t that long to finish.
Dwarf fortress and RimWorld are both… Pretty ugly
Yeah especially Dwarf Fortress. The gameplay:graphics ratio is over 9000
That’s improved now, though, with the steam release. Before the Steam release I exclusively played DF with Ascii graphics. Honestly, I thought it was pretty.
It does have a certain charm. I never really played that much tbh, my favorite part was reading the sagas of fortresses on the forums. Those were always so unpredictable and hilarious.
I LIKE ASCII graphics done well. It tried playing the version of Stone Soup that uses tiles and couldn’t do it.
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Unpopular opinion but I thought Return of the Obra Dinn was ugly. However, I really like it and it’s one of those games you can only experience ones.
Mindustry. It’s a mix between an RTS and Factorio. It’s pretty nice and Open Source
I wouldn’t call it ugly
It’s not ugly but I find it pretty hard to figure out what’s happening at a glance because it’s really abstract
Mindustry has wonderful graphics!? Nice vector objects that scale smoothly. What’s the ugly part??
Open Source
You said it all
I loved this at first but then the complexity of the various mechanics seemed to take a sharp rocket ship upwards through the roof. I got kind of lost and then tried to read the wiki guide and it was like a book, so that was that. I really wanted to like it though! Maybe I should give it another go.
TagPro - minimalist graphics, straightforward gameplay and an insanely high skill ceiling. So good it was banned from AskTheBadWebsite because it was always the top answer for every question regarding good webgames etc.
Battle for Wesnoth. Best.Game.Ever (slight exaggeration)
does Doom count? Because my friends and I still play the game to this day, all the various community mods and maps.
The Case of the Golden Idol
Some people dislike the pixel-art style and weird character design, but I find it charming.Tales of Maj’eyal. A free to play open source roguelike that I hate. This game is amazing. Fuck this game. Also definitely recommend. But fuck this game. After numerous 10-12 hour long runs, I have yet to win.
Love me some ToM!
