Some gamers play video games as an escape from their everyday lives or problems they might be facing. A getaway from jobs, bills, or everyday troubles. While some players chase a challenge to complete in games like Dark Souls or Cuphead, many find themselves gravitating towards a more delightful experience when stepping away from time for a few hours.

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Games like Little Misfortune provide players with cute visuals and an engaging story to fill their time. Little Misfortune is certainly not the first game to strive for a pretty aesthetic. Many developers work tirelessly to create unique and striking games to capture players' minds. Whether they use hand-drawn artwork or playful graphics, many gamers are pulled towards the cute designs few games tend to capture perfectly.

10  TOHU Combines The Weird With The Adorable

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Point-and-click games that can melt gamers' hearts are hard to come by. TOHU works to correct that by introducing players to The Girl and her unique world of planets shaped like fish. The cute visuals on display in TOHU pull players in while the weird story keeps them in.

TOHU was released early in 2021 and has since earned itself a small following. Gamers chasing cute visuals and intriguing stories are sure to find a lot to love in the point-and-click adventure game.

9 Solving A Cute Mystery In The Haunted Island: A Frog Detective Game

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Stepping into the shoes of a detective to solve a mystery is not a motif seldom found in video games. The Haunted Island: A Frog Detective Game provides players a unique spin to the genre by placing them in the webbed shoes of Frog Detective. To start the adventure, Frog Detective grabs his magnifying glass and sets out to find the ghost everybody is hearing on the island.

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The visual style is one of The Haunted Island's most compelling features. Each character and backdrop in the quirky first-person exploration game is simply hand-drawn cuteness. The short adventure provides the same feelings Little Misfortune provides players.

8 Wattam Comes From The Bizarre Mind Behind Katamari Damacy

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Gamers who remember and enjoy the strange trip that Katamari Damacy places players in will find themselves at home in Wattam. Each character in the world of Wattam is colorful and full of energy. The adorable atmosphere is contagious as players become engrossed in the charm of its world.

With puzzles to complete either co-op or solo, Wattam provides gamers with a concentrated dose of glee. With the goal of repopulating the world with anthropomorphized friends, everything in Wattam provides the player with a smiling face and laughter.

7 Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Provides Smiles and Frustration

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Colorful is the word used to describe the one-time top-played game on Steam. A mix between the cult classic TV show Takeshi's Castle and beans wearing costumes, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout tasks players with competing against each other to reach the end first in a wild obstacle course.

A charming and adorable style will help gamers forget how frustrated they become in the battle-royale type game. With an appearance that everything in the world is made of Jell-O, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout fills players' screens with the same cute visuals gamers coming from Little Misfortune will enjoy.

6 Recapturing A Childhood Sense Of Halloween In Costume Quest 2

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Double Fine Productions has no shortage of cute games with delightful visuals. Costume Quest 2 provides Halloween fun without the scares that usually come with it alongside adorable protagonists Everett, Lucy, Wren, and Reynold. The role-playing adventure battling dentists and watching candy scatter across the screen is sure to have players smiling along with the characters.

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Costume Quest 2 captures the childhood sense of Halloween perfectly, and dressing up the characters in cute costumes and outfits never loses its charm. Gamers striving for more cute artwork have a lot to find in Costume Quest 2.

5 Scribblenauts Unlimited Is Cute From Any Angle

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Creativity is the main focus of Scribblenauts Unlimited, and any word the player can think up to solve a particular puzzle is valuable. The Scribblenauts universe revolves around a magical notebook that summons anything written in it. If a cat can solve a puzzle, scribble cat in the notebook, and one is summoned for the player to do with as they see fit.

Wholesome creativity and cute characters are what make Scribblenauts Unlimited special. Players chasing cute visuals are sure to be surprised how much they enjoy this sandbox puzzle game.

4 Finding Happiness Anywhere In Before Your Eyes

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The way a player interacts with a game can be just as important as the characters and story portrayed. Before your Eyes is a twist on traditional gameplay by having the player interact with the world through eye-tracking and blinking.

The hand-drawn watercolor-like visuals help tell a heartbreaking story about loss and its toll on those around it. The cute visuals hide the very real story being told, and it is a sincere experience. Before Your Eyes will have players wiping away tears once the cute visuals pull them in.

3 Night In The Woods Pairs Cute With Modern Struggles

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Zoomorphic humans as main characters are sure to peak anyone's cute scale. Night in the Woods is a side-scrolling exploration and adventure game telling the story of returning home and seeing everything differently as an adult. However, the many humans/animals the player interacts with are sure to get a smile.

The lessons learned through its story are honest, and seeing the world through Mae Borowski's cat-like eyes is charming, if a little eerie. The beautiful tale is sure to bring memories of Little Misfortune's adventures for happiness.

2 Anna's Quest Is A Grim Tale With Cute Visuals

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Little Misfortune provides players with a juxtaposition in visuals and story. Providing a more mature drama paired with adorable artwork. Anna's Quest gives players those same feelings of disconnect. A point-and-click adventure game from the minds at Daedalic Entertainment, who have a long history in the genre.

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Players take control of Anna and wield her telekinetic powers to solve puzzles and communicate with the dead in a hand-drawn grim tale of discovery. Gamers who want more of the bleak atmosphere provided in Little Misfortune are sure to enjoy Anna's Quest. 

1 Yokai Inn's Cute Visuals Can Make Anyone Smile

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Adorable life sims are not hard to come by in the indie worldYokai Inn will be another to add to the list that makes gamers smile while playing. Talking with cute villagers, mining gems and ore, and running a restaurant are all wrapped up in a cute and delightful Japanese folklore tale.

The cute visuals bring to mind other pixel art games. Yokai Inn is a mix of Studio Ghibli, Animal Crossing, and Harvest Moon. With Yokai Inn still in development, it could feel like an eternity before players get their hands on this cute adventure.

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