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Games with beautiful graphics

The concept of beauty is often very personal. Beauty is in the eye of the watcher, even when we're talking about video games. A first-person 3D game could be a joy for the eyes of some gamer or a pain to others. Pixel graphics is often considered beautiful if the player grew up playing in a decade when games were almost entirely pixellated. Lots of old games are considered aesthetically pleasing even today: Another World is still a beautiful game to most of us, and so is true for Loom (those wonderfully colored backgrounds!) and many others.

Most popular beautiful graphics games

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Beautiful graphics games

  • princessmaker2-3
    DOS19934.2/5 Gainax

    Princess Maker 2 is a life simulation anime-style game developed by Gainax in 1993. In Princess Maker 2, the player is the father of a young princess and must tutor and raise her to the age of 18 by scheduling jobs, school classes and programming other activities. The princess is defined by attributes (strength, cooking, etc.) that will change depe...

  • return-of-the-phantom-04
    DOS1993protected3.7/5 MicroProse Software
  • risedragon-1
    DOS19904.1/5 Dynamix
  • screamer-07
    DOS1995protected4.3/5 Milestone
  • star-wars-chess-01
    DOSWindows 3.x19933.7/5 Software Toolworks
  • rebel-assault-04
    DOSMac1993protected3.5/5 LucasArts
  • stormlord-02
    DOS19893.9/5 Hewson Consultants

    Stormlord is an abandoned DOS platform game set in a fantasy world, developed and published by Hewson Consultants in 1989 and designed by Raffaele Cecco. There was some controversy about the scantily clothed fairies in the game.

  • strike-commander-04
    DOS1993protected4.1/5 Origin Systems

    Strike Commander is combat flight simulation game created by Chris Roberts (the designer behind Wing Commander) and Jeff George. Strike Commander was developed by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS.

  • supertetris-3
    DOS19914/5 Sphere
  • syndicate-5
    DOS1993protected4.1/5 Bullfrog
  • chaos-engine-05
    DOS1994protected3.9/5 Bitmap Brothers
  • sherlockserrated-1
  • needforspeed-4
    DOS19954.2/5 Electronic Arts

    The Need for Speed is a first-person perspective racing game developed and published by Electronic Arts in 1995 for DOS where the main goal is to win race after race in a variety of game modes. In the process, the player must elude traffic, pedestrians, and the police.

  • orion-conspiracy-01
    DOS19952.8/5 Divide by zero
  • serfcity-6
    DOS1993protected4.2/5 Blue Byte Software
  • settlers-2-04
    DOSMac1996protected3.8/5 Blue Byte Software
  • the-simpsons-04
    DOS19914/5 Konami
  • transport-tycoon-deluxe-02
    DOS19954.3/5 Chris Sawyer Productions

    Transport Tycoon Deluxe is a business simulation game that puts the player at the head of a transport company to compete against rival companies. The player can build stations, airports, railroads to transport passengers, mail and various goods using trucks, trains and planes. The game became a cult and a few talented fans created some of the best ...

  • ufo-5
    DOS1994protected4.3/5 MicroProse Software

    UFO: Enemy Unknown (or X-COM: Ufo Defense) is a sci-fi tactical strategy game created by Julian Gollop set in a not-to-distant future where aliens are invading the Earth. The gameplay switches between tactical combat, where you fight aliens in a turn-based fashion, and strategic micromanagement, where you manage your X-COM base and personnel.

  • xmen-children-atom-02
    DOS19973.8/5 Capcom

    X-Men: Children of the Atom is an abandoned fighting action game developed by Capcom and released by Acclaim Entertainment in 1997 for DOS and it's a conversion from the arcade version. X-Men: Children of the Atom was also published for consoles: Sega Saturn and PlayStation. As the title suggests, it's based on the Marvel comics characters known as...

  • zork-grand-inquisitor-05
    Windows XP/98/95Mac1997protected3.8/5 Activision