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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.

Streets of Rage 4
Side-scrolling beat 'em up with combo combat and four-player local co-op
92% positive 20K reviews
Nubby's Number Factory
Plinko-style roguelike about building item combos to meet quotas
97% positive 20K reviews
Pseudoregalia
3D Metroidvania with acrobatic moves and open-ended castle exploration
97% positive 19K reviews
Sonic Adventure DX
Fast-paced third-person platforming across six character-specific adventures
92% positive 19K reviews
CrossCode
2D action RPG mixing fast combat with puzzle-heavy dungeons
92% positive 18K reviews
Gothic 1
Open-world action RPG about surviving a magically sealed prison colony
93% positive 18K reviews
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Retro first-person shooter with fast movement and bloody Warhammer combat
89% positive 18K reviews
Sanfu
2D mystery adventure tracing a strange television broadcast
83% positive 18K reviews
Peglin
Turn-based pachinko roguelike with upgradeable orbs and relics
84% positive 18K reviews
Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Isometric open-world RPG with turn-based combat and branching choices
94% positive 17K reviews
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Retro side-scrolling platformer with four campaigns and local battles
96% positive 17K reviews
Quake
Fast-paced dark fantasy FPS with monsters, expansions, and multiplayer
96% positive 16K reviews
FEZ
Puzzle platformer with rotating viewpoints in a three-dimensional world
93% positive 16K reviews
Punch Club
Boxing management RPG balancing training, work, and a murder mystery
80% positive 16K reviews
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Historical real-time strategy about building civilizations and conquering rivals
84% positive 16K reviews
Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition
Pixel-art JRPG with timed turns and three-player local co-op
88% positive 16K reviews
Retrowave
Endless driving game dodging traffic to a synthwave soundtrack
95% positive 15K reviews
KinitoPET
Retro psychological horror with a virtual friend who disrupts your desktop
93% positive 15K reviews
Deponia
Hand-drawn point-and-click comedy about escaping a trash-covered world
86% positive 15K reviews
Nova Drift
Space action roguelite built around rapid runs and ship customization
96% positive 15K reviews
The Red Strings Club
Cyberpunk narrative adventure with mood-shifting cocktails and phone impersonation
93% positive 14K reviews
Nodebuster
2D incremental game about breaking nodes and buying upgrades
97% positive 14K reviews
Titan Souls
Top-down boss-rush action built around a single arrow
79% positive 14K reviews
DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION
Cartoon action roguelike chasing treasure through hordes and boss fights
94% positive 14K reviews