whats the art style called?

[WolfPax]

im a fan of the art style ive seen it here, some game called crisis response, and the infamously abandoned game hidden deep

is there any other games in barotrauma's graphic style?

[zeeb]

Happy Wheels comes to mind.
It's pretty oldschool afaik, a lot of Flash games used this concept. Take the Last Stand series as an example.

I think the style is called "Cutout" but can also be referred to as "Paperdoll".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCrsscmdv9M

[Swiggy]

Diesel Punk/ Reich punk I believe.

[kingmagma111]

Originally posted by Swiggy:

Diesel Punk/ Reich punk I believe.

I think Gritpunk is more applicable, Diesel is usually a more dystopian steampunk. Baro always seems a little too futuristic to be Diesel.

Edit: Or I'm being a stickler for terms that were made up 5 minutes ago. I guess I honestly just prefer the term Gritpunk lol.

[[MadTs] Phyrys]

Eeeh... Nah, it gets something to do with the era it is set in. Dieselpunk is just an alternate universe based around WW2, brimming with limos, walkers and blimps. Think about Crimson Skies. Stimpunk is industrial era, with the same limos, walkers and blimps, like Dishonored does. What separates the two genre are the morals people have on those eras. You'll have much less rampant corruption and lack of ethics in Diesel, but a lotta more warcrimes.

Barotrauma is "just" science-fiction, with good ol' AYYS LMAO and AYYS ruins, with some eldritch thrown in because mixing genres is fun. If you really want a punk genre in it, it can't be Diesel or Steam, everything runs on nuclear, and Atompunk is generally set in the ninties (Fallout hello).

So it leaves us with your doc, the thalamus, and the husks, who wants to tell you they happily believe in Biopunk. It's in the future, and it's not Cyberpunk because the church of Husk isn't cyber at all.

Edit : oh crap the art style, not the 'verse ! Well uh, it's definitely gritty paperdoll.

[Dragova]

What if it is just it's own thing created from inspirations? It's not inconsistent to look at, but it's nice that it comes together well enough.

[The Grand Mugwump]

I think gritty or dark are good words to describe the art style.

[kingmagma111]

Originally posted by tonyzur:

. there aren't enough shooter games where bodyshots are better than headshots.

I may be stupid, but why would a bodyshot be better than a headshot?
I get why a bodyshot would be better than a limbshot, internal organs and whatnot
But the head is, well, the head. unless you barely graze it, I don't understand why body would be better.

[kasC]

The real answer is an old game called "Elastomania", thats where i think this art style was seen the first time in gaming. It was released in 2000, way before happy wheels.