dungeon crawl stone soup(?)
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Mass Effect 2
They toned down the ass in the legendary edition unfortunately.
That's what mods are for
In good times, in bad times. They'll be on your side forevermore.
mASS effect.
mass erect
Doom
Even 2016 and Eternal have pretty moderate requirements for their fidelity.
Arguably, 2016 and Eternal prove it much better than the original - people nowadays are way too spoilt to really appreciate those early 3D graphics, and IMO early 3D graphics aged much worse than pixel art.
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Also came here to say Doom. But can it (a potato) run Doom? Even if not, someone almost certainly will have tried and partially succeeded.
ps: And no other game listed in this topic can claim this
Obligatory Hollow Knight mention
Lies of P.
(it says so in the file name of the uploaded image)
Half life 2
Minecraft
Also Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
BG1+2 is peak.
IME, Minecraft looks kinda bad until you install shader mods, at which point it needs pretty substantial GPU power. But IDK, maybe Bedrock Edition is more efficient, I only ever played the Java version.
Hollow Knight and Silksong
Probably Gris
Great game indeed, felt like it personified my experience with dysphoria, all without talking.
Super Mario World is a game that shows artistic design outlasts everything else. That game still looks and plays amazingly.
But I think the real issue is "looks good" is very subjective.
A lot of older 2d games can run on a portrait potato and the artwork holds up excellently.
RC2, civ 3, Anno 1602, sim city 3000, AOE2.
Celeste
Anything can look good pre-rendered
It’s Lies Of P - they left it in the image file name.
StarCraft and WarCraft series.
Dishonored.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Ground Zeroes as well)
Myst of course.
Halo 3
lots of really good pixel art: Celeste, hyper light drifter, dead cells, etc
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Super Nintendo-era pixel graphics games like Chrono Trigger. Pixel graphics need a lot less computational power to look good IMO.
Terraria
I play classic wow private servers. Game came out in like 2005 so it'll run on whatever. The graphics are minimal and stylized to in a way that makes it timeless. Plugging wow-hc.com
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Bioshock Infinite , even my AMD Athlon II could handle it back in the day
Warframe. They got it running on mobile, and it looks absolutely gorgeous. I myself ran it for a few years on a shitty graphics card that could barely run minecraft with a texture pack.
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Braid. Assuming the graphics don't have to be realistic?
TitanFall 2.
Metal Gear Solid V.
... maybe a slightly more impressive than average potato.
Amazing what you can do with a well optimized engine, eh?
Dishonored
Looking good is about artstyle more than realistic graphics for me so most pixelart games.
Weirdly enough DMC5. Also Monster Hunter World. Those had no business on my GPU which keeps shitting itself from Darkest Dungeon 2 but they just seem to be optimized really well
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Valkyrie Chronicles
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