Today, video games are now regarded as an interactive art form rather than movies. To achieve art design as a core idea rather than gameplay value, we have searched for 10 games with the highest artistic value.
Now let’s dive into them.
Our Top 10 Picks for Games Known for Art Style:
10. Alto’s Adventure & Odyssey
Platform: Mobile & PC Requirements: Any working phones or PCs
These games are great and simple. The core concept of both games is the same: sliding or boarding downhill on a never-ending mountaintop, avoiding stones, grabbing coins and various power-ups along the way, and doing stunts.
9. Manifold Garden
Platform: PC, Apple Arcade, PS5, PS4, XBOX, Switch
Requirements: Any PC with a graphics card or a powerful processor
There is a lot more in this game than a simple puzzle element. With M.C. Escher-esque architectural style, the game tells a tale, and if you’re attentive enough to recognize it, you’ll like it. As you progress, you will eventually grasp the theme. It speaks volumes about life as well as the limited amount of life that we have.
8. Portal 1 & 2
Platform: PC, MacOS X, Android (Nvidia Shield), Switch
Requirements: Any modern PC will do
Portal games are first-person puzzle games where you solve test chambers in a facility via a pistol that connects two spots in space. It’s a pretty simple notion that takes only a couple of seconds to grasp, but there are limitless ways to do it.
7. Katana Zero
Platform: PC, MacOS X, Switch Requirements: Any working PC
Katana Zero is a sleek action platformer featuring beautiful pixel art, captivating animations, and excellent music.
Katana Zero offers something fresh to you after every few level sections, right after you get adjusted to a new skill or enemy kind. This could involve a brand-new level type, a boss battle, a story scene, etc.
6. Stray
Platform: PC, PS5, PS4, XBOX
Requirements: Minimum 2GB dedicated or integrated graphics card
You play as a typical, cute cat, but one with the common sense that we all believe our cats have when we’re not looking. The simplicity of the concept works brilliantly. In this game, players get to solve easy puzzles with a neon dystopian city aesthetic.
Cat lovers will enjoy this game the most on this list.
5. Journey
Platform: PC, PS4, iOS Requirements: Any Modern PC will do
Journey is a very breathtaking experience in a desert setting. Austin Wintory’s music for Journey is far more than enough for the price of acceptance, and it works exceptionally well in the game context. The multiplayer section works beautifully in the game, maintaining an air of mystery along your journey.
4. Abzu
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox, Switch Requirements: Any Modern PC will do
The game’s outstanding art style and visual narrative are the factors that drew me in. How each ‘level’ is structured and displayed is genuinely unique; similar to Journey, not one sentence is said in this game, and no story is provided directly to the player. This forces the aesthetic of Abzu to carry out the work of lifting, which they accomplish exceptionally well.
3. Celeste
Platform: PC, MacOS X, PS4, Xbox, Switch
Requirements: Any working PC will do
This game will teach you determination and a strong will to do the impossible. The game follows a girl named Madeline who wants to climb the biggest mountain in Canada. Along the way, escaping the treacherous paths of a thousand deaths, she will also fight with her depression, anxiety, and paranoia. You will be stunned by the gorgeous pixel art design, too.
2. Gris
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox, Switch Requirements: Any Modern PC will do
Watercolor skies, glowing caverns, and vibrant vines and flowers ensured Gris got on the list.
Behind all of this is stunning scenery and a piece of equally beautiful music. Peaceful piano tracks turn into turbulent odes. The player can relate to the depression and sorrow of the girl through puzzles & music.
1. Hollow Knight
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox, Switch Requirements: Any Modern PC will do
Hollow Knight has the most gorgeous, breathtaking art visual of all time. The drawing of each bug, the sound they make while talking, the sad little stories that we uncover gradually, and the ultimate triumph that you will feel after beating each boss—all these traits make this game a masterpiece.
Now that the soundtrack of Hollow Knight, especially ‘Green path OST’, ‘City of Tears OST’, and ‘Resting Grounds OST’, doesn’t convince you enough to play the game, I don’t know what will. If you do not lose patience until you reach the ‘City of Tears’. You will see something magical happen.
So what game will you try first?
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Sadi Reza,
Intern at Content Writing,
Youth School for Social Entrepreneurs.