Games with graphics resembling PS1 or PS2?

Any "boomer shooter" is a callback to the 90 early 00s shooters. For example: Dusk, Postal: Braindead and Warhammer 40k: Boltgun

Lots of indie horror games have the early 3d era look to them.

Basically if you want visuals like this, the indie scene is where you should look

Pseudoregalia is a 3D platformer/Metroidvania with a low poly art style a la PS1.

Beeny Super Kiwi 64 is a 3D platformer where you play as a kiwi, reminiscent of N64 era RARE games.

Edit: I meant Super Kiwi 64. Beeny is by the same dev but more like an SNES game such as Donkey Kong Country.

There's been a recent boom in retro-style 3D platformers, so there's no shortage of good options to choose from:

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Lunistice
Pseudoregalia
Toree 3D and the rest of the Toree series
Frogun
Corn Kidz 64
Cavern of Dreams

Upcoming:

Toree Saturn
The Big Catch
DoubleShake (technically 2.5d)

There are more, but these are the ones I can think of.

Maybe look at what's on Itch.io , I know there are some people there releasing games made with some PSX engine. Someone remade Bloodborne

Lunacid might be worth checking out. It's an homage to the older Kings Field (Fromsofts flagship series before the Souls games) games from the PSX era and really well done. It had it's full 1.0 release a few weeks back. I had a lot of fun playing through it

If you mean low poly & texture sized 3D games, then I would say BallisticNG, which is directly inspired by Wipeout from the original PSX. Also, while not quite the same, Valheim has a similar pixelated texture style with low poly models (for today's standards at least).

If you like retro styles and don't mind some technical tinkering and manual configuration of games you can checkout the "demake" scene. These people recreate modern games to look and play as if with the limitations of the PS1/N64 (or earlier) era. The most popular and polished I know of is the demake of Bloodborne that recreates the first third of the game entirely as a PS1 game.

I've been enjoying Signalis. It's a survival horror game with a top down 2.5d perspective and a late ps1-early ps2 graphics style. It's very reminiscent of the older Resident Evil games where ammo is scarce(more or less is available based on difficulty), inventory space is limited(adjustable limits are available in settings), and there are specific rooms with a storage container where you can store items and save your game (there is no autosave or checkpoint system; you have to manually save your game), but it very much feels like it's own thing.

I picked it up on a whim when looking for games with female protagonists to play on a new-to-me hand-me-down Steam Deck, and it happens to run perfectly on it.

Valheim with all the modern shit like bloom, tiltshift and with the vegetation detail at medium is very PS2y, imho

Lost In Vivo is a pretty solid first person survival horror ish title, looks straight off of PS1 pretty much

Prodeus looks like an early 3D FPS like Doom but there are obviously modern day techniques such as lighting etc too give it a modern twist and make it now palatable.

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The display settings actually let you make it MORE pixelated if you want.

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I've already seen them suggested, but I want to throw out another recommendation for Signalis and Lunacid . Signalis is a sci-fi horror game that takes heavy inspiration from the old Resident Evil and Silent Hill games. Like Resident Evil you have limited ammo, inventory, and points where you can save. Like Silent Hill you have a story that starts out fairly straightforward and then gets weirder as things start to unravel around you. I'm not really a survival horror fan and it still managed to keep me hooked to the end.

Lunacid is a first-first person dungeon crawler that is heavily inspired by pre-Dark Souls Fromsoft series like King's Field and Shadow Tower. That's really all the game sets out to be and it absolutely nails it. The combat can be a bit repetitive, unless you invest in magic which I found to be incredibly fun and versatile, but I feel like the atmosphere more than makes up for it. It also has a ton of secrets and plenty of those ah-ha moments where you open up a shortcut or figure out how one area connects to the others.

Thanks everyone!! This is more than I expected. Lots of promising stuff! I will look into each and every one of your suggestions.

(Since it's a bit silly to reply to every single comment the same thing, I'm just putting this one here)

• Dread Delusion
• Lunacid

Someone remade parts of Bloodborne in a PS1 style. The controls are fairly clunky but it's as legit as they come.

Take a look at Haunted PS1, the games they published or that are in their compilations are usually close to that era of visuals.

For individual games you have stuff like, Anodyne 2, Cavern of Dreams, Zortch, Worlds, Lunistice, Hypnagogia, and many more. Like someone else said, there are plenty of indie games imitating or taking inspiration from the graphics of the late 90s and early 2000s.

No one lives under the lighthouse

Horror on a tiny deserted island with PS1 look&feel:

Steam

Wiki

https://youtu.be/ZNn-tNe0s2A?si=ZTeSMnMIo7BiOsWk

So not exactly a full game or released just yet, but Bloodborne Kart has that retro look and is based on a modern series. Seems like a cool and funny concept and wanted people to know about it.

El Paso Elsewhere probably the best Payne-like.

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Signalis if you are into survival horror games. Short but good.

Neon White isn’t necessarily low-poly, but it has a dreamcast early-2000’s vibe to the levels

I haven't seen anyone mention HROT yet, but it's a other featuring a retro 3D art style.

Revenge of the Colon?

Wrestling Empire is a good throwback wrestling game. It really reminds me of No Mercy on N64.

Crow Country has the pre-rendered backgrounds & popeye arms aesthetics of ff7, but then you rotate the camera and its all 3d

Does N64 look count? Corn Kidz 64

Everything by Puppet Combo. Especially in the indie horror sphere, there has been a huge resurgence of PS1/PS2 style games.

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor

Signalis, released in 2022 is a great survival horror with very similar gameplay to resident evil and I feel very successfully recreates the PS1 aesthetic.

Check out Pseudoregalia on Steam, came out last year.

Vampire Hunters

Signalis is very good. It's an re1-style survival horror but with a more scifi setting.

I’ve not played it, but Back in 1995 has always caught my eye.

Not quite what you're looking for but it's fresh on my mind: 2009scape! Its an open source game engine reimplementation of RuneScape circa 2009. The devs aim for it to be purely a time capsule of RuneScape in 2009, but being open source it would be very easy to fork and add content as needed.

The official server is extremely friendly and the client has a single player mode available as well.

Stardew Valley

Alisa is a great horror game that uses pre-rendered backgrounds and plays very much like an old Resident Evil game. It even opens up with a pretty nice FMV intro.

One big difficulty of it is that there’s one finite currency used for buying upgrades, weapons, health, and ammo; and you’ll likely be strained if you avoid buying the latter.

Redfall