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Would Cruelty Squad be cheating?

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.

Dcss is the greatest game of all time. Everything about it is good.

But Dwarf Fortress is also good with bad graphics.

Factorio is like crack and looks terrible.

FTL, it's not very ugly, but it could be improved

Battle for Wesnoth. Best.Game.Ever (slight exaggeration)

I would say Kenshi with assests that show it was done by one person and a rough UI, also maybe pathologic 2, although for that game I wouldn't say it's the graphics that put people off it's mostly the gameplay, but the geaphics are weird and really grey/depressive

does Doom count? Because my friends and I still play the game to this day, all the various community mods and maps.

I never got far in it, but I didn't see anyone mention Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. It's fun to explore a world where everyone has noticeable neck seams.

Simutrans is great, but looks like dogshit.

Oh hi, have you considered joining the best Lemmy community, !dcss@lemmy.ml? 🙃

If you're into zombies and post-apocalyptic survival, CDDA always looks like a blast to play: https://cataclysmdda.org

I haven't played it, but Cruelty Squad beats 95% of these in uglyness. Probably because they (hopefully) do it on purpose.

Hardly 'hidden', but there is always Nethack

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.

Had a lot of fun with Elona (rougelike) a short time ago, didn't know a game like that existed

Caves of quid.

EverQuest.

Card Quest (Android) has similar dated graphics, but I got kinda into it lately. It's a card-based roguelike, with a fixed deck that only changes with inventory/skill changes.

I always thought Quake was pretty ugly, great fun though. And I guess much of it was probably supposed to be ugly.

Not sure about ugly, but Stardew Valley's graphics are pretty basic. Great game though.

TradeWars

Stardew Valley, hands down one of the graphically ugliest modern games, like 80's console style. Though it's a really good game and I've put a of lot of hours into it. People say it's meant to look that way as intentional retro styling, but damn it's ugly. I actually added a mod on PC to use AA on the blocky graphics and it makes it look a lot better.

I remembered thinking teleglitch was absolutely fascinating a while back. Not exactly a pretty game but it's not ugly either, the chromatic aberration effects on collisions is real pretty imo, even if the underlying art is rather spartan

Project zomboid

From the games I can recall, Anuto TD (Another Ugly Tower Defense).

I cannot say whether or not it would get attention because of the graphic quality, but I know there are plenty of people who wouldn't play it since it is not 8k super ultra 3D high def masterwork quality graphics and would gladly shit on it because it doesn't have the most realistic graphics out there.

I second Stone Soup and FTL! Both amazing, but ugly. Also:

• The Binding of Isaac
• Slay the Spire
• Mario 64

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead I find ASCII more charming than anything though

Ravenfield is ugly but fun

Bannerlord! Although maybe it could be argued that it’s not “ugly” per se.. curious what others think

The Case of the Golden Idol
Some people dislike the pixel-art style and weird character design, but I find it charming.

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.