# Another World

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Another World and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Eric Chahi's 1991 game is praised for its smooth vector animation, achieved on the hardware of its time, and still holds up.

## Why people recommend it

- Smooth, impressive graphics and animation (2 comments): "Another World, a whole game made with a custom vector graphics and animation system." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750337)) "blown away by its graphics and how smooth the animations were" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237855))
- Technically impressive for its hardware (2 comments): "Yeah, Another World was an incredible feat with the hardware we had at the time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974733)) "The code was amazing, because it has has to draw polygons into 8x8 pixels cells" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973562))
- Still good and wonderful today (2 comments): "Still one of the greatest games and still good today." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237767)) "a wonderful game in between was Another World (1991)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504455))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Helldivers 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/helldivers-2.md): 50 recommend
- [Triple-A Minesweeper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/triple-a-minesweeper.md): 40 recommend
- [Quake II](https://hackerapproved.com/p/quake-2.md): 33 recommend
- [Red Dead Redemption 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/red-dead-redemption-2.md): 28 recommend
- [Grand Theft Auto (1997)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grand-theft-auto.md): 28 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Another World", https://hackerapproved.com/p/another-world/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).