
To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Aug 28 → 0/day in the week after.
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 133reviews | 88% | — | $54.2K |
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The visuals and atmosphere, along with the light, enjoyable gameplay, work really well with the story, which is interesting because it's based on a novel. And in the end, the game leaves you with something to think about.
Very unique game right here. Never heard of the book until I got this game, the photos alone intrigued me enough to give it a whirl. SPOILERS BELOW!!! Its short, and its not one of those typical stories where the good guys win and everything goes back to normal as many others have mentioned. The bad guy wins which is something you hardly see at all. Definitely recommend a playthrough.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 22 → 0.13/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil
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| 17ratings |
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fun and looks great. one of the few games i never turned the audio down for.
Well, hello, good adaptation of a book and not of a movie for once! Not that I've read Vian's original novel, but I went ahead and skimmed through it. Naturally, the English translation (which according to Vian's mystification would be a backwards translation of a French translation of a novel by an American author Vernon Sullivan), par ce que mon Francais n'est pas si fantastique. My brief familiarisation with the source showed there's a lot in this game here that is conveyed word for word, and it somehow doesn't feel like a letter dump for the sake of sTAYinG TRuE to ThE viSIoN. And I honestly don't think it's because of some ingenious narrative design, but rather just by virtue of the medium. Videogames plainly convey more information than cinema. Everybody's been busy shooting films from books, and they've all been moving the wrong way for a hundred years! It's good to see the almighty French animation tradition show up in a videogame. Neither constipated realism/comics duality of average American animators, nor unbridled hairy elemental rawness of Eastern European schools, it is simultaneously very stylised and very polished - as if on display in a showcase. While unappealing to me personally, it fits the ridiculous themes of the novel so well. And it fits the jazz. Oh, the jazz! Vian's love. Its plumes of brass smoke float on the morning streets, its fits rip shirts, trousers and dresses during the JRPG QTE fisticuffs. This is a beautiful lighthearted and faithful adventure that, had it been released by Tim Shafer, everyone would shower in plastic praise and shill as a "return to form". As it stands, 160 reviews of peepil going "eh, is ok"... Boy, to hell with the ugly.
To Hell With the Ugly s'est une histoire prenante, une jolie direction artistique visuelle et sonore et des petits moments de gameplay pour rythmer l'expérience. J'ai vraiment passé un bon moment. Effectivement, la fin n'est pas un happy ending, mais ça ne m'a pas dérangé du tout :)
Le jeu n'est pas mauvais on va commencer par ce point. Par contre ce qu'on ne peut décemment pas dire c'est qu'il est bon. Le jeu a certes une belle DA ainsi qu'une histoire drôle et attrayante mais on n'entend que cela à travers les critiques et ce n'est vraiment pas suffisant pour passer outre ses défauts. Les phases d'enquêtes/de dialogues sont segmentées en petites boucles répétitives. On peut citer à titre d'exemple le passage où l'on doit entrer dans la discothèque, le gameplay va se limiter à une circumambulation autour de cinq personnages dans un espace restreint à une rue avec pour seule justification à ces machinaux allers-retours la confection d'un encas... Le jeu va proposer des phases de jrpg pour briser la monotonie du gameplay, c'est un parti pris audacieux pour ce genre de gameplay mais qui ne paie pas dans sa réalisation. Les combats se contentent de QTE axés sur des timings aisément atteignables aboutissant à l'annulation totale des dégâts subis lors des moments de défense. De quoi tout simplement effacer l'attrait pour cette mécanique. To hell with the ugly est un jeu prometteur avec une bonne base mais ses faiblesses rédhibitoires se font remarquer bien trop tôt.
This game rocks socks. You get to play as inverse Johnny Bravo going on a mystery quest to investigate the gangster that drugged him and attempted to steal his semen. A little buggy. A little too short. But a whole lot of bonkers. I'll definitely be picking up this team's next game.
Decent enough point and click adventure game, flooded with style and flavor. The characters are decently written, but I think partially both mine and the games fault I started to lose touch with the narrative right around the map puzzle Combat was easy and the puzzles were few and far between and weren't too hard to get past. Did have a bug after Rock gets punched and has his black eye in the image when he's talking, but not his actual character model. Worth a play on sale, don't think you need to go out of you way though to play this.
Bardzo dobra gra. MA POLSKĄ WERSJĘ JĘZYKOWĄ!!!
No me agrada poner una puntuación negativa a esta obra. Si quieres pasar un buen rato es un juego con un apartado artístico genial (arte gráfico, diseño visual y música son impecables), con una trama que tiene buen ritmo, una traducción al español fantástica y una variedad en el gameplay que se disfruta. Sin embargo, es un juego muy centrado en la trama (de hecho, etiquetado como "buena trama") y el problema es que es un desastre. A partir de aquí solo puedo hablar con spóileres y son bastante importantes. Lo primero que diré es que no me he leído la novela homónima de 1948 del autor francés Boris Vian (aunque antes de escribir me estuve informando), pero yo criticaré el despropósito de la trama en este videojuego. El protagonista, Rock Bailey, en algunas escenas es extremadamente idiota (que entiendo que es lo más fiel a la novela, fundamental para la sátira que quiere transmitir) y en otras es un genio; resuelve crímenes, une cabos, llega a conclusiones brillantes en la investigación... Por otro lado, te pasas horas en el juego sin saber a dónde va la historia que se te está contando. No es hasta casi el final del juego que se entrevé una sátira contra las ideas del nazismo [spoiler] (principalmente porque se ve claramente que, para el villano, las personas "guapas" solo pueden ser blancas). El propio tono del juego, que triunfa en las escenas de acción o aventura, fracasa en los supuestos momentos de comedia y parece poco interesado en hablar del tema que teóricamente trata. Acabas teniendo la sensación de que casi todos los diálogos tratan, de forma muy cargante y desagradable, sobre la virginidad del protagonista. Por otro lado, entiendo la ingenuidad extrema del protagonista y entiendo que él es un buen tipo, pero es que lo que hace simplemente no tiene sentido. Le gusta estar con sus amigos que (para la historia) no son guapos, pero luego no tiene problema en decir (sin motivación alguna) que la idea de matar a los feos le parece bien. No es racista, pero luego dice que "no todos tienen la suerte de ser rubios como él". Busca venganza por el secuestro, agresiones, tortura e intento de violación que ha sufrido, pero le da igual que no se haga justicia. Quiere acabar con el villano por los atroces delitos que ha cometido, pero acaba estando de acuerdo con el (sin ningún motivo de peso). Le parece horrible y aterrador que haya muertos colgando de los árboles, pero dos segundos después le parece bien. Insisto, sé que él es tonto, que es una sátira, pero es que no puede funcionar si luego él resuelve puzles y misterios sin problema. La historia no sabe qué tipo de protagonista quiere. Por otro lado, están todas las tramas que la historia simplemente abandona, haciendo que cuando termine el juego (muy abruptamente) pienses que aún le faltaban otras 3 horas. La trama del policía, las bandas de delincuentes, el clon con la caja en la cabeza, ¿Qué pasa con las fotos de las operaciones macabras que tan importantes eran en la primera parte? ¿ya no importan?... simplemente desaparecen tan rápido como aparecieron. Si a eso le sumas los momentos de resolver puzles situacionales que diluyen la trama, parece que el juego está hecho a base de paja argumental, excusas para meter gameplay, pero que no lleva a ningún sitio. [/spoiler] En definitiva, el juego fracasa rotundamente en su objetivo de ser una sátira contra el nazismo, apenas parece una idea de la que se acuerda en el último minuto. El protagonista parece escrito por varios guionistas distintos con ideas contrarias, los diálogos (sobre el físico, perder la virginidad y chascarrillos varios e innecesarios) se acaban haciendo pesados y diluyen la trama aún más. Si lo que digo te ha resultado interesante y quieres ver cómo se desarrolla por ti mismo, dale una oportunidad. Te aseguro que vas a pasártelo bien bastante a menudo y que vas a disfrutar del apartado artístico. Pero para ser un juego centrado en la trama, es bastante desastroso desarrollándola.
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