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What are your favorite "ugly" games? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by GrappleHat@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Would Cruelty Squad be cheating?

[–] Orange@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow that art style is... something

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's like... 2001 shareware shitpost flavored.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. A lot of the UI seems to be intentionally bad. It's actually a pretty hard game. A good example is reloading. You do this by holding right click, moving the mouse down then up and letting go of right click. I think the visual parts of the experience speak for themselves from the screenshots but my point is that even a lot of other stuff in the game is just wack.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's another one with a similar kinda vibe (the vibe being "shitpost but it's a video game") called Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengence of the Slayer. I haven't played it but it looks great. Er... Gameplay wise anyway lol.

[–] Orange@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like its going for a vibe similar to the original Doom! That trailer on the steam page was amazing.

[–] Tordoc@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Seconding this; Cruelty Squad is hitting that Deus Ex/Quake itch for me right now