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.
- 1980s settings or retro styling
- Frequent action and shooting
Related: Retro, Action, FPS, Pixel Graphics
820 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo MythForce
First-person fantasy roguelite with four-player co-op and cartoon visuals
68% positive
778 reviews
VHS
A retro idle clicker with music and timed item drops
82% positive
Free
Bot Wars
Real-time strategy with robot squads you can control directly
86% positive
766 reviews
1980
Turn-based city building about an urban village facing gentrification
89% positive
Free
Demo Janosik
Free action-platformer with secrets to find and no microtransactions
93% positive
Free
Dark Pals: The 1st Floor
First-person mascot horror built around paint-gun puzzles and changing rooms
88% positive
750 reviews
Karate Master 2 Knock Down Blow
1980s karate fighting game with training, jobs, and tournaments
86% positive
748 reviews
Project Hailstorm
First-person walking simulator about a recovery mission deep beneath Antarctica
84% positive
Free
Demo Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
Real-time political strategy about steering the Soviet Union through crisis
80% positive
740 reviews
Demo Andy's Apple Farm
Pixel-art horror wrapped in a seemingly cheerful farm game
88% positive
735 reviews
Dragon's Lair
Cartoon arcade adventure where survival depends on timed button presses
78% positive
726 reviews
Demo Oniken: Unstoppable Edition
Side-scrolling action platformer with ninja combat and punishing boss fights
81% positive
722 reviews
Ikki Unite
Bullet-hell roguelite with online co-op for up to sixteen players
77% positive
714 reviews
Kaizen: A Factory Story
Factory automation puzzles with an eighties Japanese workplace story
92% positive
713 reviews
WASTED
First-person roguelike dungeon crawling with mutations from radioactive booze
79% positive
672 reviews
Cursed Digicam | 呪われたデジカメ
Short psychological horror game about photographing ghosts in a Japanese park
79% positive
666 reviews
Demo Sniper Killer
Retro horror thriller where you play both detective and killer
86% positive
664 reviews
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Point-and-click detective adventure with a story that unfolds in real time
73% positive
654 reviews
No Players Online
A horror adventure tracing a mystery through an abandoned shooter
83% positive
646 reviews
Chornobyl Liquidators
First-person disaster response simulation about containing radioactive fallout
50% positive
642 reviews
Annalynn
A retro arcade platformer with rubies that blind pursuing snakes
98% positive
642 reviews
198X
Arcade games linked by a teenager's story of growing up
85% positive
637 reviews
Victory Heat Rally
Arcade racing with high-speed drifting and four-player split-screen competition
90% positive
637 reviews
Distant Space
An arcade space shooter with alien formations and boss fights
83% positive
635 reviews