Comment by Lazare

> You are conflating lo-fi art with cheap and/or bad lo-fi art. "Cheap lo-fi art that looks good" is not a thing, because the talent that can make something lo-fi also look good and, more importantly, provide good art direction for an extensive project is not cheap.

And I would say you are conflating art with design/art direction. :)

> We are not talking a screen full of pixels or two. These games would require thousands upon thousands of art tiles, that all aim for a distinguishable, consistent and unique in overall style.

I mean, one of the examples given was ADOM: https://i.imgur.com/d0RpSnY.png

There's a lot of ways of solving this particular problem.