Games with beautiful graphics sorted by release date

Beautiful graphics games

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  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.

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  Emmanuelle

  DOS1989NSFW4/5 Coktel Vision
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  Stormlord

  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.

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  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...

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  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.

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  Midwinter

  DOS19904.1/5 Maelstrom Games
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  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.

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  Rise of the Dragon

  DOS19904.1/5 Dynamix
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  Another World

  DOS1991protected4.1/5 Delphine software
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  Cruise for a Corpse

  DOS19913.9/5 Delphine software
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  D/Generation

  DOS19914/5 Software Toolworks
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  Super Tetris

  DOS19914/5 Sphere
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  The Simpsons

  DOS19914/5 Konami
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  B.A.T. 2 : The Koshan Conspiracy

  DOS19924.2/5 Computer's dream
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  Dark Seed

  DOS19924.1/5 Cyberdreams
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  Dune

  DOS19924.1/5 Cryo Interactive Entertainment
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  Floor 13

  DOS19924/5 PSI Software Designers
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  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...

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  The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel

  DOS19924.2/5 Mythos Software
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  Day of the Tentacle

  DOS1993protected4.1/5 LucasArts
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  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.

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  Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of fate

  DOS19934.2/5 Westwood Studios
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  Litil Divil

  DOS1993protected4/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
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  Princess Maker 2

  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...

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  Return of the Phantom

  DOS1993protected3.7/5 MicroProse Software
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  Star Wars Chess

  DOSWindows 3.x19933.7/5 Software Toolworks
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  Star Wars: Rebel Assault

  DOSMac1993protected3.5/5 LucasArts
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  Strike Commander

  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.

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  Syndicate

  DOS1993protected4.1/5 Bullfrog
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  The Settlers

  DOS1993protected4.2/5 Blue Byte Software