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As the title says. What game to you, has the best aesthetic, or at least the one you like the most.

For me it is the Dark Souls/Bloodborne series. Hard/frustrating as those games are, I love how they look and the overall feel of them.

A night in the woods.

Atmospheric, calm, like home but home is now a strange place, and nostalgia

Hollow Knight
The music and the art is just astoundingly wonderful. My favorite soundtrack of all.

Abzu
I have a soft spot for deep waters and ocean creatures, which combined with the story and the music just makes me go silent for a while.

Bioshock Infinite and Dishonored are tied for me. I love the steampunk pretty-yet-dystopian feeling they both have.

Soma and Limbo... I actually haven't played Soma myself and I've only gotten about halfway through Limbo, but both of them have such a cool aesthetic to them in their own right.

Slime Rancher. It's cute, yet sci-fi, and relaxes the hell out of me. My favorite location is the Indigo Quarry.

FIREWATCH

Just, ugh. So pretty, and I like the story a lot. It's quite different.

Also Limbo. And SOMA. SOMA will scar you for life, though.

Subnautica looks pretty.

Horizon: Zero Dawn, Borderlands, and Borderlands 2

Slime rancher is actually the best game

I would say Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl while it isn't most beautiful game due to it's age, it still is climatic and makes you immerse in the Zone.

TESV modded., nothing more to add.

Warframe on highest level of graphics.

Yesss I love firewatchhhh. I only have watched play through but hahah

Ori And The Will Of the Wisp And Of course Ori And The Blind Forest.
Because the Art and gameplay for the game is so Amazing. And if you are interested in the game , look at these trailers!

Ori And The will of the wisp


Ori And the blind forest

The soundtrack is also amazing and i would recommend this game to anyone if you have an Xbox or Windows Pc .

I'm on board with a lot of these, especially Slime Rancher and Ori!

But I feel the need to mention the greatly underappreciated... SpeedRunners! It's such a simple, goofy game but I adore it. The style is on point and I love absolutely everything about their sound design and music. It never fails to make me laugh when I play with friends. For some reason, whenever my boyfriend gets into the lead and says something like "I'm too good!" or "See you later, babe!" he ALWAYS, WITHOUT FAIL, screws up a hookshot or stumbles over some boxes and spikes that instantly puts him into last place. It's like karma wastes no time punishing him for boasting.

I love the aesthetic of modern pixel art games right now. They manage to capture a sense of nostalgia even though it's a modern game!

Examples of this: Stardew Valley, Terraria, Kynseed.

You should try Shovel Knight.

Money and time well spent. Why didn't I mention Shovel Knight earlier?

Spook - Ah, that game has come up in my recommended list on Steam; I've stuck it on my wishlist for whenever it goes on sale. I love old school platformers so it definitely looks like something I'll enjoy!

For me, it's a toss up between Stellaris and Kingdoms - two crowns. Two wildly different games but with aesthetics for me which I just simply adore.

As far as graphics go, I've fallen in love with Red Dead Redemption 2. The details of the characters, textures, fabrics, sounds, music… it's all gorgeous and immersive, I get lost in that game all too easily. I specifically remember there was an area where I was riding through the woods at dawn, and the way the mist and light were filtering through the trees was downright surreal. The world feels phenomenal and authentic. At least, when I'm not goofing around in the online mode 😏

When it comes to stylistic aesthetic though, I'll always have a huge soft spot for the American McGee's Alice in Wonderland games. I felt like the setting stayed true to the obscure, topsy-turvy, seemingly abstract yet symbolic nature of Lewis Carroll's original text. But McGee also took that and slapped it hard with a creepy, gruesome, gory gothic theme that made for an awful lot of grimdark thrill.

Shadow of the Colossus. The world gives you a sense of isolation surrounded by the beauty and sheer scale of the earth and ancient ruins. Natural land bridges that overlooks oceans crashing against the cliffside, or rippling grass--and all this, you can enjoy while racing across the land on top of your horse. The music accentuates the atmosphere, and has been, to this day, one of my favorite soundtracks on any type of game or film. That said, I love nature in games, and lost, ancient civilizations.



Another fabulous game with an extraordinary soundtrack is one of my hands-down, favorite games of all time: Journey. I adore the aesthetics on this game. The color pallets are a treat for the eyes! And this also goes along with my love for lost, ancient civilizations and a sense of isolation in a massive, explorable world. I could not put this game down; I used to play this game almost every day for three years.



Gris. Similar to Journey, but different in its own right--this game is simply beautiful. I adore the watercolor scheme in this game, and the artstyle. The way the character moves, and some of the other characters you meet, are mesmerizing to watch.

All in all, I believe I enjoy an artsy and emotionally-driven aesthetic to games.

I love the Bioshock series..more so the first two than the third. The atmosphere is dark, but so intriguing and detailed.