Best Old School games on PC
These are older games and newer titles that use mechanics, structure, or presentation associated with earlier eras of PC gaming.
- Older or retro-inspired design
Related: Classic, Retro, Nostalgia, 1990's
1,711 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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The Rocky Horror Show Video Game
A retro platformer through mansion traps, backed by chiptune songs
87% positive
123 reviews
The Roach Hotel
First-person horror in a hotel with shifting walls and roaches
87% positive
Free
Void Source
A side-scrolling arcade shooter where matching weapons increase firepower
81% positive
122 reviews
The Making of Karateka
Interactive documentary tracing a student developer's early martial arts game
98% positive
122 reviews
Demo Abscission
A point-and-click detective story mixing murder investigations with cosmic horror
92% positive
122 reviews
Midnight Special
Point-and-click survival horror about a babysitter's night at a manor
71% positive
122 reviews
Gorble
A physics-based dungeon crawler where you move by flicking a marble
98% positive
Free
Demo Ampersat
A top-down action RPG where dungeon monsters are letters
85% positive
121 reviews
BlackChain
Sci-fi real-time strategy where crowded bases lose efficiency from heat
83% positive
121 reviews
Bone Dust
First-person bullet-hell shooter with playing cards as weapons
84% positive
Free
Demo The Legend of Skye
A retro point-and-click adventure with a nine-verb interaction system
95% positive
121 reviews
Demo BrebeMan
A 3D rhythm shooter built around breakbeats and vinyl records
100% positive
121 reviews
Riftborne
Space grand strategy with real-time campaigns and a terminal interface
90% positive
121 reviews
Fantasy General II: Prologue
Free turn-based fantasy wargame with a branching standalone campaign
71% positive
Free
Hair of the Dog
Point-and-click comedy where the clock changes what you can do
98% positive
Free
Lens Adventure
A 2D puzzle-platformer where camera magic creates new paths
97% positive
Free
Avadon 3: The Warborn
Isometric fantasy RPG where you enforce the law or rebel
91% positive
119 reviews
Demo Turbo Sloths
Arcade combat racing with turbine-powered vehicles, weapons, and boss fights
83% positive
119 reviews
Chrysalis
Tower defense roguelike where you possess friendly plants and animals
83% positive
119 reviews
Scramble Knights Online
Top-down online action RPG with cooperative quests and puzzle dungeons
57% positive
119 reviews
Demo Draco and the Seven Scales
Top-down pirate adventure with puzzles spanning land and sea
99% positive
119 reviews
QUICKERFLAK 2
Time-attack arcade shooter with melee combat and guarded rooms
92% positive
119 reviews
Grumpy Gaffer
Cartoony tower defense about keeping unwanted neighbors away from home
95% positive
119 reviews
Raging Justice
Side-scrolling beat 'em up with arrests that restore health
76% positive
118 reviews