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Best 1980s games on PC

Games tagged 1980s are set during the decade or draw on its pop culture, visual styles, music, and technology. They span shooters, racing games, strategy titles, and narrative simulations, so gameplay varies widely.

Related: Retro, Action, FPS, Pixel Graphics

820 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

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MarginCall
MarginCall
Stock trading simulation with prices driven by competing simulated traders
75% positive 142 reviews
The Cursed Hour
The Cursed Hour
Co-op horror puzzle game about destroying relics in a haunted mansion
28% positive Free
Run TavernQuest Demo
Run TavernQuest
A text adventure where you interpret another player's commands
94% positive 140 reviews
Psychopathy Assessment
Psychopathy Assessment
VHS-style psychological horror that begins with a psychopathy test
69% positive 140 reviews
WARPZONE DRIFTER
WARPZONE DRIFTER
A reflex-driven arcade drifting game with no way to brake
80% positive 139 reviews
Bombing!!: A Graffiti Sandbox
Bombing!!: A Graffiti Sandbox
First-person graffiti sandbox where you can paint on every surface
91% positive 139 reviews
Super Cakeboy
Super Cakeboy
Side-scrolling action platformer with a baker and pastry-based weapons
99% positive Free
Trash Horror Collection 3
Trash Horror Collection 3
First-person horror shorts inspired by cult movies and crude comedy
86% positive 139 reviews
NAMCO MUSEUM ARCHIVES Vol 2
NAMCO MUSEUM ARCHIVES Vol 2
An 8-bit action collection with save states and rewind
85% positive 137 reviews
Yin-Yang Ping-Pong
Yin-Yang Ping-Pong
An idle desktop toy where balls move on their own
96% positive Free
3D Escape Room: Detective Story
3D Escape Room: Detective Story
3D escape-room mystery built around codes and mechanical contraptions
70% positive 136 reviews
Game Tycoon 2
Game Tycoon 2
Game development management sim with decades of changing technology
39% positive 135 reviews
Below The Ocean
Below The Ocean
Underwater puzzle platformer built around swinging on an oxygen tether
99% positive 135 reviews
Skogdal
Skogdal
Roguelike deckbuilder with recruitable townsfolk and cards you can fuse
99% positive 134 reviews
Murder at the Birch Tree Theater Demo
Murder at the Birch Tree Theater
Point-and-click murder mysteries set behind the scenes of community theater
96% positive 134 reviews
Saturnalia
Saturnalia
Third-person horror adventure through a village reshaped when everyone dies
91% positive 133 reviews
Full Metal Sergeant
Full Metal Sergeant
Boot camp management with twelve weeks to prepare a squad
86% positive 133 reviews
Gnome Online
Gnome Online
Sandbox MMORPG with real-time combat and guild wars over territory
77% positive 133 reviews
Nirvana Pilot Yume
Nirvana Pilot Yume
Arcade spaceship racing paired with a branching sci-fi romance
76% positive 132 reviews
Fairune Collection
Fairune Collection
Retro adventure RPGs where finding the route is the puzzle
86% positive 132 reviews
Active Soccer 3
Active Soccer 3
Retro arcade soccer with custom tactics and multiple camera views
69% positive 131 reviews
Centipede: Recharged
Centipede: Recharged
Top-down arcade bug shooting with bombs, rail guns, and slow-motion
85% positive 130 reviews
Dot's Home
Dot's Home
A point-and-click story tracing a family's housing struggles through time
82% positive Free
Scary Horror
Scary Horror
An analog horror adventure with a neighborhood-wide bottle hunt
87% positive Free