>>3808307I think it's important to consider how the game started. It was originally a game jam game made in a week (Dungeon Crawler Jam 2024), which then got expanded into a full game. So the look of the game was originally decided in the context of "what's neat looking that I can throw together in a week."
The full game looks way better than the game jam version though.
https://schmidt-workshops.itch.io/cyclopean