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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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[–] lwuy9v5@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dwarf fortress and RimWorld are both... Pretty ugly

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah especially Dwarf Fortress. The gameplay:graphics ratio is over 9000

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] sLLiK@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I LIKE ASCII graphics done well. It tried playing the version of Stone Soup that uses tiles and couldn't do it.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

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.