When Square Enix released Octopath Traveler in 2018, they took a giant leap with the new HD-2D style they created specifically for this game. The best way to think about it is to imagine taking ...

With several games getting successful HD-2D remakes, it opens the door for the following open-world titles to receive their own upgrade.

The game has been remade in “HD-2D,” a kind of style template within Unreal Engine that Square Enix created, alongside developer Acquire, for 2018’s superb retro RPG Octopath Traveler.

HD-2D is the natural culmination of looking back to the NES and SNES eras of gaming for inspiration. In the 1980s and early 1990s, games sported pixelated art styles out of necessity.

Over the last few years, Square Enix’s HD-2D games have gotten a lot of positive attention from gamers. Titles like Octopath Traveler and Triangle Strategy have really captured the attention of ...

Link to the Past’s art is the retro style most commonly associated with 2D Zelda games, and one that was briefly resurrected again for the original Four Swords when A Link to the Past was re ...

If you missed out on the original Terminator 2 video game, Reef Entertainment is bringing the T-800, T-1000, Sarah, and John Connor back for its retro-style shoot-'em-up, Terminator 2D: No Fate.

This is a 2D adaptation of Terminator 2 that in its first trailer, just over a minute long, serves up outstanding recreations of the movie's biggest blowout scenes, which feature distinct styles ...

Sonic Superstars, the new 2D Sonic platformer from Sega coming out later this year, looks a lot like a fresh take on the famous blue blur. It ditches pixel art for a cartoony new visual style that ...