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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Tibia, an old 2d mmorpg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the recommendation! Spent this evening playing it, and it's everything I was hoping Slay the Spire would be. Slay the Spire is still great, of course, but deckbuilding has always been my least favorite part of card games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You're welcome, glad that someone enjoyed my suggestion!

Yeah with Slay the Spire there is often some slight feeling of "I lost because I didn't get any good cards", but in this game I more often feel like I died because I messed up my resource management and priorities haha (still haven't beat it once yet...)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I haven't seen anyone mention it yet so... Golden Light!

A creepy, funny, challenging, confusing, silly mess if a roguelite. Art looks almost PS1-esque. It's gorgeous in an ugly way!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I know that game, used to play it on BBS in the early 90's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Deadly premonitions, everything about it is jank but I love it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Zombie Highway for iOS

Planetside 2 for PC

[–] UntouchedWagons 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't played it but I watched a Songs of Syx let's play and damn, it ugly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Jump Ultimate Stars, not everyone is fan of the sprites 🫤

To be fair I have seen better, but they have their charm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Cruelty Squad

Dominions 5

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Imbroglio (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/imbroglio/id969264934) is one of my favorite minimal purchase iOS games. I haven’t played it in awhile, but it’s a unique dungeon puzzle game where you place attacks as floor tiles on the board ahead of playing. There’s some consistent rules with ramping challenge, which made it super replayable for me. I loved trying different floor designs, finding strategies, and there’s a small progression system that’s fun. Hasn’t been updated in a few years, but it was a great design despite the rough appearance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ravenfield is ugly but fun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Valheim! The graphics may look like a PS2/XBOX Game, but it is very fun.

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