There’s great graphics and then there’s great art. These are two completely separate things. A game can look good technically (Serious Sam 4) but be sterile and uninteresting to look at. Then there are games that are both. There weren’t’ a lot of really artful games this year, but what we did get was incredibly impressive. What makes a game uniquely artistic would be in the eye of the beholder, but generally it is a unique art style in and of itself that no other game can produce.
Cyberpunk 2077
A cyberpunk setting has been done numerous times, but never in as much as detail as Cyberpunk 2077. From the amazingly detailed cybernetic enhancements on every character to the striking vehicles, advertisements, propaganda, and object clutter, there is so much beauty to look at here. Some may say it looks too realistic, but that’s the game’s thing. A fantasy future set in a realistic tone.
Runner-Ups
Doom Eternal
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Hades
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Sackboy: A Big Adventure
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps
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