
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 | 165reviews | 87% | — | $54.2K |
| $19.99 | 43ratings | 89% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
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 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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
| $6.19−69% |
| 17ratings |
| 86% |
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| $19.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 46 reviews with recorded playtime.
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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.
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 :)
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.
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.
fun and looks great. one of the few games i never turned the audio down for.
The story is weird and feels have finished. The gameplay is engaging enough, although one of the puzzles is a bit of an asspull, and the game has a strong artstyle. It's a good way to spend an afternoon considering the runtime is around 2-4 hours
Bardzo dobra gra. MA POLSKĄ WERSJĘ JĘZYKOWĄ!!!
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