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

Prince of Persia

actionDOS, Mac

Albion

rpgDOS

X-COM: Ufo Defense

strategyDOS

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Albion

DOS19964.2/5 Blue Byte Software
Alpha Waves

DOS19903.9/5 Infogrames

Alpha Waves (also known as Continuum) was the ultimate relaxing experience for PC. As a platform game, Alpha Waves it's an ok game; not bad, not very good, but if you consider the whole relaxing experience, it's worth a try. Alpha Waves stands the test of time, after all these years it's still fairly playable. Try it on a lazy evening and you might...
Another World

DOS1991protected4.1/5 Delphine software
B.A.T. 2 : The Koshan Conspiracy

DOS19924.3/5 Computer's dream
Battle Chess

DOS1988protected4.2/5 Interplay Productions

Chess was a niche genre in video gaming. There were lots of chess simulations: black and white very old games, licensed games from chess champions, etc. No one ever attempted to broaden the audience until Interplay published Battle Chess. Battle Chess appeal was almost entirely focused on the animations when two pieces ended on the same square.
Beneath a Steel Sky

DOS1994freeware4/5 Revolution Software
Blackthorne

DOS19944.2/5 Blizzard Entertainment

Blackthorne is a sci-fi / fantasy abandoned action platform game designed by Ronald Millar, developed by Blizzard Entertainment (yes, the creators of Diablo and World of Warcraft) and was released by Interplay Productions in 1994 for DOS and Mac. Blackthorne was also published for SNES, Sega 32X, Game Boy Advance and other systems.
City of Lost Children

DOS19973.7/5 Psygnosis
Cruise for a Corpse

DOS19913.9/5 Delphine software
D/Generation

DOS19914/5 Software Toolworks
Dark Seed

DOS19924.2/5 Cyberdreams
Day of the Tentacle

DOS1993protected4.1/5 LucasArts
Dune

DOS19924.1/5 Cryo Interactive Entertainment
Dungeon Hack

DOS1993protected4.2/5 DreamForge Intertainment

Dungeon Hack, based on Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, is a first person dungeon crawl. You can create your one-man party and generate a random the dungeon everytime you start from scratch. Dungeon Hack gameplay is very similar to the Eye of the beholder series.
Earthworm Jim

DOS1995protected4.1/5 Shiny Entertainment
Earthworm Jim 2

DOS1996protected4.3/5 Shiny Entertainment
EF 2000

DOS19953.9/5 Digital Image Design
Emmanuelle

DOS1989NSFW4/5 Coktel Vision
Fable

DOS19964.2/5 Simbiosis Interactive
Floor 13

DOS19924/5 PSI Software Designers
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

DOS1992protected4.2/5 LucasArts

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a graphical point and click adventure game created by LucasArts and published in 1992, based on the popular movie character. As the famous archaeologist Indiana Jones, you will travel the world searching for the mythical land of Atlantis. Fate of Atlantis is the sequel to the acclaimed Indiana Jones and the...
Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of fate

DOS19934.2/5 Westwood Studios
Litil Divil

DOS1993protected4/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Little Big Adventure

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Adeline Software International
Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey)

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected3.8/5 Adeline Software International
Loom

DOSLinuxMac1990protected4.3/5 LucasArts

Loom is one of the first graphic adventures released by Lucasfilm Games. It was designed by Brian Moriarty and it follows a fantasy theme. There's no inventory and it lacks classic commands like "look", "take", etc. You can play tunes using a combination of notes in order to interact with the world.
Midwinter

DOS19904.1/5 Maelstrom Games
Noctropolis

DOS1994protected4.1/5 Flashpoint Productions
Pinball Fantasies

DOS19944.2/5 Digital Illusions
Prince of Persia

DOSMac19904.2/5 Broderbund

Prince of Persia is an abandoned DOS platform game set in Middle East, developed and released by Broderbund in 1990. Designer Jordan Mechner created a game that made a lasting impression of gamers thanks to a clever use of a tecnique called rotoscoping which makes the animation of the protagonist very realistic.