10 Most Stylish Video Games Of The Last 10 Years
Tell a story and look good doing it, what's not to love?
Over the years, especially with the next generation of consoles and graphics cards on the way, developers are striving for "the best looking game ever". To be fair, we've had some corkers in recent years, too.
Just look at The Last of Us Part 2, Marvel's Spider-Man or Resident Evil 2's remake (to stop the PS4 bias) for graphical fidelity. But just because they push boundaries for graphics, doesn't always make them the most stylish out there.
Not when an indie developer can make even the depths of Hell look beautiful. Certainly not when an auteur director can make a fictionally desolate America beautiful to just walk through. You may think that pixelated hyper-violence or sword fights look basic, but you'd be very wrong.
It's about the style in which battling your way through mobs or saving a dying planet can captivate us more than some wonderfully rendered horse junk (yeah, cheers for that Rockstar). It's about how a series, renowned for its sea-bed shenanigans, can captivate us by putting our heads in the clouds for its next game. It doesn't have to push capabilities to be great, just pull off that beautiful aesthetic instead.
So put aside your console wars and your 4K/120fps boasts; let's instead come together and appreciate ten of the most stylish games out there to ever grace our eyeballs and ear holes.
10. The Unfinished Swan
When you think of a stylish game, you don't expect a game to present it to you in a sort of "do it yourself" kind of way.
Yet The Unfinished Swan isn't just any game. All the pieces are laid out for you, in a world already built. All you need to do is bring them to life with paint.
Armed with a magic silver paintbrush, protagonist Monroe searches for the titular swan into a world of paintings unfinished. It's up to you to add colour to this world along your path, bringing the never-finished works of your late mother to life and vibrancy.
You may have thought this list would have kicked off with a bang, not nuance, but trust me. This game is just as stylish and wonderful to get lost in as any other on this list.
Flinging paint about at your own choosing, bringing objects and pathways to life as you explore is an absolute joy to experience. As is the overlaying story voiced by Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam, telling an interwoven story as you progress.