Games Like Ugly (2026)

Shared: Multiple Endings, Environmental Storytelling

Gorgeous Ming Dynasty soulslike with some of the genre's most flexible build systems - but PC players should know the optimization is rough and late-game balance spikes hard.

Shared: Hand-Drawn Art

Few two-person studios have conjured a world this dense and this lonely. Hollow Knight is 40-plus hours of hand-drawn melancholy that will humble you, haunt you, and refuse to let go.

Shared: Environmental Storytelling

You are Miles Upshur, a journalist with a camcorder and zero combat skills, trapped inside a psychiatric asylum that is very much still occupied.

Shared: Wordless Narrative

GRIS is a wordless platformer about grief told through watercolor animation and a swelling score. Quiet, intentional, and unlike most things on Steam.

Shared: Multiple Endings

Six years of memes and broken promises evaporated the moment I dropped into Pharloom. Hornet is a razor-sharp upgrade in every direction, and Team Cherry somehow delivered on the hype.