Best Retro games on PC
Games that imitate or build on styles from earlier eras of gaming, often through pixel art, 2D presentation, or older shooter, platformer, and RPG conventions.
- Pixel art or period-inspired graphics
- Old-school genre conventions
Related: Pixel Graphics, Classic, 1990's, 2D
4,144 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Super House of Dead Ninjas
Fast-paced 2D action platformer with timed, randomized tower runs
96% positive
1,727 reviews
Kingsway
Fantasy roguelike RPG played through a fictional desktop operating system
92% positive
1,722 reviews
Gambonanza
Tactical chess roguelike with upgrades that change the rules
75% positive
1,721 reviews
Overload
Six-degree-of-freedom shooter with robot battles in zero gravity
94% positive
1,706 reviews
FINAL FANTASY VII
Party-based fantasy RPG about rebels fighting a planet-draining corporation
74% positive
1,703 reviews
Master of Orion 2
Turn-based space 4X about colonization, diplomacy, and tactical combat
96% positive
1,700 reviews
Shooty Skies
An arcade shoot 'em up with a voxel art style
91% positive
Free
Demo Waves
Twin-stick arena shooting with a time-slowing ability for close calls
95% positive
Free
Demo Hedon Bloodrite
Retro first-person shooter mixing underground battles with exploration and puzzles
93% positive
1,693 reviews
Star Saviors
Space bullet-hell shooter with distinct roles for two local players
82% positive
1,691 reviews
Demo The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Point-and-click detective comedy with paranormal cases in a cursed town
96% positive
1,689 reviews
Aberoth
Retro fantasy MMORPG with open-world PvP and permanent dropped items
64% positive
Free
坏小孩
Story-driven adventure about a schoolboy caught up in crime
96% positive
1,688 reviews
Rusted Moss
2D Metroidvania with elastic grappling and freely aimed gunfights
88% positive
1,683 reviews
Demo Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
3D collectathon platformer where a taxi dashes off ramps
97% positive
1,679 reviews
Impossible Creatures Steam Edition
Real-time strategy where you combine animals to build armies
96% positive
1,672 reviews
Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium
Classic arcade collection with rewind and online scoreboards
68% positive
Free
Vanguard Princess
A 2D anime fighter where each combatant brings a partner
70% positive
1,659 reviews
Bleed
A shooting platformer built around bullet time and acrobatic dodging
92% positive
1,658 reviews
FIGHT KNIGHT
First-person dungeon crawler with real-time fistfights on a grid
91% positive
1,654 reviews
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
Retro 2D action platformer with character switching and local co-op
84% positive
1,653 reviews
Demo Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus®
Dark 2D puzzle platformer about rescuing Mudokons from corporate exploitation
95% positive
1,652 reviews
POPGOES Arcade
A pixel-art RPG spinoff of Five Nights at Freddy's
96% positive
1,639 reviews
Demo Tenebris Somnia
Pixel-art survival horror that switches to live-action at key moments
94% positive
1,628 reviews