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What are your favorite "ugly" games?

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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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teolan@lemmy.world
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Mindustry. It’s a mix between an RTS and Factorio. It’s pretty nice and Open Source

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starman@programming.dev
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I wouldn’t call it ugly

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teolan@lemmy.world
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It’s not ugly but I find it pretty hard to figure out what’s happening at a glance because it’s really abstract

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Link69@lemmy.world
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Open Source

You said it all

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Jarmer@kbin.social
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I loved this at first but then the complexity of the various mechanics seemed to take a sharp rocket ship upwards through the roof. I got kind of lost and then tried to read the wiki guide and it was like a book, so that was that. I really wanted to like it though! Maybe I should give it another go.

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14four@lemm.ee
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Mindustry has wonderful graphics!? Nice vector objects that scale smoothly. What’s the ugly part??

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