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.
Pixel Cup Soccer - Ultimate Edition
Retro pixel-art soccer with quick matches and a team-building career mode
84% positive
999 reviews
Rush Rally 3
Rally racing across varied surfaces with car tuning and damage
94% positive
997 reviews
Stone Story RPG
ASCII auto-RPG with gear swaps, boss fights, and scripting
91% positive
996 reviews
Kelvin and the Infamous Machine
Point-and-click adventure through history, helping famous minds finish their work
91% positive
989 reviews
Guns of Fury
Run-and-gun platforming meets ability-gated exploration and mech combat
88% positive
986 reviews
Contra: Operation Galuga
Side-scrolling run-and-gun action with weapon upgrades and co-op
87% positive
976 reviews
Chip's Challenge 1
Top-down puzzle game with timed mazes, movable blocks, and traps
90% positive
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Old School Musical
Retro rhythm adventure with chiptune tracks and game parodies
92% positive
969 reviews
Phoenix Force
Top-down bullet hell shooter built entirely around boss battles
84% positive
962 reviews
X-COM: Apocalypse
Sci-fi strategy mixing real-time city defense and tactical missions
89% positive
960 reviews
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
Retro sci-fi visual novel about investigating a shipboard threat
91% positive
960 reviews
ARCADE GAME SERIES: GALAGA
Arcade space shooter with alien waves and a dual fighter
91% positive
956 reviews
Legend Bowl
Pixel-art American football with hands-on matches and franchise management
87% positive
956 reviews
aMAZE 2
Single-player maze puzzler guiding a ball through growing labyrinths
86% positive
954 reviews
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town
Relaxed adventure through rural Japan and a mysterious coal town
96% positive
952 reviews
Super Motherload
Mars mining adventure with explosive puzzles and local co-op
76% positive
950 reviews
LIVE A LIVE
Pixel-art RPG with seven stories played in any order
86% positive
949 reviews
X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Turn-based squad tactics against aliens beneath Earth's oceans
91% positive
943 reviews
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX
Old-school 2D platformer with switchable retro and updated graphics
78% positive
943 reviews
PowerSlave Exhumed
First-person shooter through Egyptian tombs with upgrade-based backtracking
89% positive
943 reviews
Hollow Cocoon
First-person horror adventure about hiding from a monster in 1980s Japan
92% positive
929 reviews
Wizordum
Fantasy first-person shooter with magic weapons and hidden treasures
92% positive
927 reviews
Age of Barbarian Extended Cut
Side-scrolling sword-and-sorcery action with gory combat and secret areas
78% positive
918 reviews
Journey to Incrementalia
Top-down incremental strategy game about breaking walls with summoned minions
87% positive
916 reviews