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
871 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Missile Command: Recharged
A 2D arcade shooter about stopping missiles and protecting cities
89% positive
53 reviews
Demo Witchcraft Survivors
Action roguelite with screen-filling spells and monsters to outlast
75% positive
53 reviews
Jake's Halloween Night
Short horror game that pokes fun at slasher movie conventions
89% positive
Free
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AFTERLIGHT: The Apartment
A horror walking simulator with a VHS-inspired visual style
89% positive
53 reviews
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Terrorbytes
Cooperative maze horror where pellets keep your safe room powered
88% positive
52 reviews
Rollick N' Roll
A physics puzzle game about juggling vehicles on toy tracks
94% positive
52 reviews
ROLLA
Top-down arcade survival as an alien that eats and grows
79% positive
52 reviews
Street Cleaner: The Video Game
An 8-bit vigilante platformer inspired by 1980s action films
94% positive
51 reviews
WORMHOLE
Snake-style arcade action with planet-eating worms and stackable perks
100% positive
51 reviews
Benny Bash
Horror puzzle adventure where a cursed game changes the real world
80% positive
51 reviews
Vaporwave Pinball
Casual video pinball with vaporwave visuals and changing table layers
82% positive
50 reviews
A Northern Evil: Tape One
Psychological horror shaped by the isolation and folklore of northern Sweden
98% positive
Free
The Wrong Way
First-person psychological horror about a drive home gone wrong
54% positive
50 reviews
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NARIBIKIMURA
First-person exploration horror in an abandoned, unmapped Japanese village
82% positive
45 reviews
Boxing School 2
Single-player boxing management sim about training fighters and building a gym
80% positive
44 reviews
Wizlite: Everybody loved RPGs
Party-based dungeon roguelite with card-driven exploration and persistent upgrades
41% positive
44 reviews
Demo Echo Generation 2
Turn-based sci-fi deckbuilding RPG built around breaking enemy defenses
72% positive
43 reviews
攻上凌霄宝殿
Turn-based fantasy RPG with layered trials and customizable party lineups
84% positive
37 reviews
Demo Rolling Bird
Retro side-scrolling shooter built around fast, endless arcade action
97% positive
36 reviews
Mnemonimov
Assembly programming sandbox for building games on a monochrome console
97% positive
35 reviews
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Board Game Society
Turn-based board game mixing monster battles with traps for rivals
59% positive
32 reviews
Demo Towerix91
Incremental tower defense with a retro computer interface
91% positive
22 reviews
Demo CLAWPUNK
2D action platformer with cat fighters and fully destructible environments
94% positive
17 reviews
Demo A Fool's Art Gallery
First-person walking simulator through a gallery of one artist’s work
100% positive
14 reviews