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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.

Two Point Hospital
Comic hospital management sim about bizarre illnesses and efficient layouts
92% positive 35K reviews
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Short psychological horror visual novel about a difficult milk run
96% positive 34K reviews
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
Pizzeria management by day, robot survival horror by night
94% positive Free
Sven Co-op
Free co-op first-person shooter built around Half-Life-style team missions
94% positive Free
Emily is Away
Retro chat-based interactive fiction about a relationship over five years
89% positive Free
PICO PARK
Cooperative puzzle platformer where every player must reach the exit
91% positive 30K reviews
DOOM + DOOM II
Classic first-person demon shooter with two games and extra episodes
97% positive 29K reviews
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Sci-fi first-person shooter revisiting Black Mesa from a soldier's perspective
95% positive 29K reviews
Sonic Mania
Fast-paced 2D platforming across reworked classic zones with branching routes
94% positive 29K reviews
Sonic Adventure 2
Fast-paced 3D platforming across rival hero and villain campaigns
89% positive 29K reviews
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Rhythm roguelike dungeon crawler where every move follows the beat
95% positive 27K reviews
DUSK
Fast-paced retro first-person shooter against cultists and possessed soldiers
97% positive 26K reviews
Sonic Generations Collection
Fast-paced platformer with classic and modern takes on past stages
94% positive 26K reviews
Forts
Physics-based 2D strategy battles built around forts and destruction
92% positive 25K reviews
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Isometric post-apocalyptic RPG built around choices and turn-based combat
94% positive 25K reviews
Cruelty Squad
Surreal tactical FPS with corporate assassinations and multiple mission routes
96% positive 25K reviews
Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition
Classic turn-based fantasy strategy with tactical battles and town building
79% positive 25K reviews
ANIMAL WELL
Puzzle platformer with nonlinear paths and secrets beyond the ending
96% positive 25K reviews
Baba Is You
Single-player logic puzzles where pushing words rewrites the rules
98% positive 25K reviews
Dome Keeper
Roguelike mining and dome defense under constant time pressure
92% positive 22K reviews
Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy
Three remastered platformers built around jumping, spinning, and hazards
92% positive 22K reviews
Half-Life: Blue Shift
First-person sci-fi shooter through Black Mesa as a security guard
93% positive 21K reviews
Finding Paradise
Top-down story adventure about fulfilling a dying patient's contradictory wish
98% positive 20K reviews
Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon
Open-world cyberpunk FPS parodying cheesy 1980s action movies
87% positive 20K reviews