It’s not really meant to be beautiful or functional or push boundaries, it’s meant to create (or recreate) a certain atmosphere or aesthetic sense. And you can’t forget that Puppet Combo’s games got really popular on YouTube and Twitch, so their style inspired and was iterated on by others. Mouthwashing was also really influential.

Sometimes things are intentionally ugly or weird or messy or technologically outdated. Sometimes people think it’s cool to make a car out of rusty parts.