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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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[–] euj2EUVtuwrch4edp@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the Steam release of DF looks nice. They're simple graphics, but not ugly.

[–] euj2EUVtuwrch4edp@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'll have to give it a go. I bought it to support them. I put in many many hours of DF like 10 years ago. I was sending the guys money too... I wish I could find the drawings they sent me.

I've just been playing a lot of DCSS lately because it is so easy to just spin up my browser and be killing kobolds and fire giants.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Agreed. I have more hours in DCSS than any other game.

I don't think it's totally fair to call it ugly either. It's a masterpiece of efficiency. The ASCII looks messy to some people, but after a while you just see right through it; purple Y = catlobe gtfo etc. Plus the upside is that it's extremely clear at a glance what is going on because you don't have complicated sprites everywhere. And the handmade vaults that get rolled into the procgen are often really nice looking and give the world a lot of character.

[–] euj2EUVtuwrch4edp@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve also been playing since Linley’s! Got my first win way back when Sif channeling was a discrete action and it cost food. I was a mummy so fuck food and I cast summon dragon (also discrete) to fill up the whole screen. Good times.