Art style is often a distinguishing factor of indie games.
Indie Games notable for their art styles[]
Umbrella Adventures with its monochrome style
Everyday Shooter, using procedural vector graphics
World of Goo, with a sort of dark but comical style, akin to something like Tim Burton
Kometen, by Erik Svedang, with watercolored paintings used for all the assets
Blueberry Garden, also by Svedang, donning a sort of picturebook style, with the world growing and evolving.
Trauma, an adventure game using photo-collages
Aquaria, hand drawn, digitally colored, paperdoll-animated
Braid, digitally painted backgrounds, animation and effects
Machinarium, hand drawn, digitally colored
Mondo Nation, by Cactus, uses a Lynchian, flinching, disturbing style
Burn the Trash by Cactus, you need to see it in motion
Ad Nauseum by cactus is a schmup with ...some sort of style
Mainstream games notable for their art styles[]
- Wario Land Shake It
- Odin Sphere
- Muramasa
- Another World
- Ico
- Okami