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The most popular beautiful graphics games

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.
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City of Lost Children

DOS1997 Psygnosis
City of Lost Children is as beautiful as it is bewildering. Based on the surreal 1995 film, this adventure game drops you into a dark, oily dystopia filled with creepy orphans, biz...
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The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici

DOSMac OS1996protected Blue Byte Software
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici takes everything that worked in the original and polishes it until it shines like a freshly forged sword. The graphics are warmer, the maps are bi...
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Another World

DOS1991protected Delphine software
Another World (1991) is a cinematic platformer with big ideas, minimal UI, and a shocking willingness to let you die within five seconds of starting. You play as a scientist who ge...
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Syndicate

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1993protecteddemo Bullfrog
Syndicate is a cyberpunk-themed tactical action game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1993. The game is set in a dystopian future where corpora...
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Blackthorne

DOS1994 Blizzard Entertainment
Blackthorne (1994) is what happens when a '90s action hero gets lost in a side-scrolling alien world and decides to shoot everything until it makes sense. You’re Kyle, a shot...
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Screamer

DOS1995protected Milestone
Screamer (1995) was the moment when PC gamers realized DOS could, in fact, go fast. A blistering arcade racer inspired by Daytona USA, it delivered glossy graphics, roaring engines...
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American McGee's Alice

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000 Rogue Entertainment
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Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of fate

DOSMac OS1993protecteddemo Westwood Studios
The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate is the second installment in the Legend of Kyrandia point and click adventure game series developed by Westwood Studios. It was released in 199...
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In The Hunt

Windows XP/98/951993 Irem Software Engineering
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Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey)

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Adeline Software International
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Dark Castle

DOSMac OS1986 Silicon Beach Software
Released in 1987, Dark Castle is infamous for two things: its moody castle setting and its protagonist’s uncanny ability to slip on stairs as if they’re coated in banan...
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The Orion Conspiracy

DOS1995 Divide by zero
A moody sci-fi adventure drenched in neon gloom, The Orion Conspiracy (1995, DOS) tosses you into a futuristic murder mystery where everyone seems to be hiding something—ofte...
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Cruise for a Corpse

DOS1991 Delphine software
A murder has been committed on a luxury yacht, and in Cruise for a Corpse, you’re the detective tasked with unraveling the mystery before the killer strikes again. The game u...
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Star Wars Chess

DOSWindows 3.x1993 The Software Toolworks
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Floor 13

DOS1992 PSI Software Designers
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X-Men: Children of the Atom

DOS1997demo Capcom
X-Men: Children of the Atom is a fighting video game developed by Capcom and released in arcades in 1994. The game features characters from Marvel Comics' X-Men series, including p...
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Strike Commander

DOS1993protected 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 an...
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Return of the Phantom

DOS1993protecteddemo MicroProse Software
Ever wondered what would happen if The Phantom of the Opera got his hands on a time machine, a vengeful streak, and a point-and-click interface? In Return of the Phantom, you step ...
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Earthworm Jim 2

DOS1996protected Shiny Entertainment
If the first game was controlled chaos, Earthworm Jim 2 is joyful anarchy. It cranks up the weirdness, throwing genre shifts and unexpected mechanics at the player with gleeful aba...
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Litil Divil

DOS1993protected Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
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Earthworm Jim

DOS1995protected Shiny Entertainment
By the time Earthworm Jim hit DOS, its reputation already preceded it, and it largely lived up to the hype. This is a platformer that thrives on absurdity: a worm in a spacesuit, b...
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Beyond Good and Evil

Windows XP/98/952003protected UBI Soft
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Super Tetris

DOS1991 Sphere
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Grim Fandango

Windows XP/98/951998protecteddemo LucasArts
Grim Fandango is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1998 and is known for its unique setting and distinctive art style. The game was directe...
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Star Wars: Rebel Assault

DOSMac OS1993protected LucasArts
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Screamer 2

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected Milestone
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The Chaos Engine

DOS1994protected Bitmap Brothers
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Stormlord

DOS1989 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...
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Zork: Grand Inquisitor

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected Activision
Zork: Grand Inquisitor is the ultimate swan song for the series—and what a finale it is. Combining laugh-out-loud humor, point-and-click puzzles, and a talking lantern voiced...
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Noctropolis

DOS1994protected Flashpoint Productions
Noctropolis feels like stepping into a fever dream of a comic book you read when you were twelve and maybe shouldn’t have. A surreal noir adventure with gothic heroes, femme ...