AdventureFit check
Is To Hell With The Ugly worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Adventure players who want a narrated mystery with investigation and puzzles
- Film-noir fans who prefer a 1950s Los Angeles setting
- Players seeking optional turn-based combat alongside exploration
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a combat-heavy game, since investigation and narration occupy a central role and fights can be skipped
- Players looking for open-ended role-playing or extensive combat variety, since the experience follows a focused kidnapping mystery
- Players who prefer light subject matter, because the story includes explicit nudity, human experimentation, and weapon combat
Our take on To Hell With The Ugly
The focus on a narrated investigation limits the role of combat: encounters are turn-based, and the game even permits skipping fights. That trade-off places clue gathering, deduction, exploration, and story progression ahead of sustained action.
What is To Hell With The Ugly?
Play as Rock Bailey, a young man abducted after leaving a jazz club and drugged in an unfamiliar hospital.
The investigation leads through a 1950s Los Angeles shaped by film noir, human experimentation, and the disappearance of beautiful inhabitants. With journalist Gary, examine crime scenes, collect clues, form deductions, solve puzzles, and question locals while exploring the city. Encounters use turn-based hand-to-hand combat based on timing and precision, and fights can be skipped. The game adapts Boris Vian’s novel and combines a narrated mystery with animated cinematics, a 2D visual style, and jazz music. Options include text-size changes, separate audio controls, keyboard remapping, cursor-speed adjustment, pausing at any time, and different text colors for dialogue, thoughts, and highlighted words.
How To Hell With The Ugly plays
- 01Clue-based investigations
- Crime-scene evidence and gathered information feed into deductions, choices, and mystery-solving.
- 02Turn-based fighting
- Hand-to-hand encounters use timing and precision, with an option to bypass fights.
- 031950s Los Angeles
- The mystery takes place across a film-noir version of the city, including its darker locations and local inhabitants.
- 04Accessibility controls
- Players can alter text size, recolor dialogue categories, remap keyboard controls, adjust cursor speed, and pause gameplay.
- 05Audio adjustments
- Audio tracks can be controlled separately.
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To Hell With The Ugly: platforms & release
Is To Hell With The Ugly worth it?
It is worth it if: adventure players who want a narrated mystery with investigation and puzzles. Skip it if: players seeking a combat-heavy game, since investigation and narration occupy a central role and fights can be skipped.
Where can I download To Hell With The Ugly?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens To Hell With The Ugly's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is To Hell With The Ugly on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
