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
1,023 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Punch Club 2: Fast Forward
Cyberpunk fighting RPG built around training and time management
82% positive
4,579 reviews
Word Game: Episode 0
Text-based puzzle adventure where changing words changes the world
99% positive
Free
Caveblazers
Fantasy action platformer with randomized caves and permanent death
85% positive
4,543 reviews
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®
Side-scrolling puzzle platformer about escaping a factory and rescuing workers
85% positive
4,536 reviews
LUFTRAUSERS
Fast-paced arcade shooter with customizable planes and high-score runs
91% positive
4,525 reviews
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Retro side-scrolling action platformer with switchable companions and branching paths
94% positive
4,524 reviews
Castle of Illusion
Disney platformer where Mickey crosses enchanted worlds to rescue Minnie
91% positive
4,476 reviews
First Class Trouble
Third-person social deduction party game where shipmates hide their loyalties
79% positive
4,439 reviews
Nightmare of Decay
First-person survival horror in a monster-filled manor with scarce ammunition
96% positive
4,438 reviews
StarVaders
Roguelike deckbuilder with grid-based mech combat against alien invaders
97% positive
4,386 reviews
Wolfenstein 3D
Retro first-person shooter about escaping a maze-like Nazi fortress
93% positive
4,375 reviews
Buddy Simulator 1984
Retro psychological horror adventure with a buddy that learns about you
93% positive
4,363 reviews
Seraph's Last Stand
2D bullet-hell roguelike with wave-by-wave upgrades and item combinations
94% positive
4,347 reviews
Tinykin
3D puzzle platformer exploring Earth at an ant's scale
98% positive
4,339 reviews
8BitMMO
Free-to-play 2D sandbox MMO built around player-made towns and exploration
60% positive
Free
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
Side-scrolling action platformer with fast swordplay and interconnected areas
81% positive
4,250 reviews
Thimbleweed Park™
Point-and-click mystery with five playable characters in a strange town
93% positive
4,233 reviews
Turok
First-person shooter with dinosaurs, traps, puzzles, and sprawling levels
93% positive
4,229 reviews
Cyber Hook
First-person parkour platformer built around grappling and timed runs
95% positive
4,193 reviews
Pinball Arcade
Pinball simulation with recreations of Stern and Gottlieb tables
74% positive
Free
Sword and Fairy
Turn-based fantasy RPG about an inn worker's mythic journey
97% positive
4,175 reviews
One Way Heroics
Side-scrolling roguelike RPG where darkness closes in with every move
94% positive
4,156 reviews
Quake III Arena
Fast-paced arena shooter with weapon pickups and multiplayer matches
96% positive
4,110 reviews
Legend of Grimrock 2
First-person dungeon crawler with grid movement and puzzles across an island
91% positive
4,083 reviews