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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.

CHRONO TRIGGER®
Classic pixel-art JRPG spanning eras with active-time party combat
88% positive 14K reviews
Songs of Conquest
Turn-based fantasy strategy with tactical battles and kingdom building
86% positive 14K reviews
Jump King
Precision platformer where a missed jump can undo your climb
90% positive 13K reviews
The Messenger
Retro 2D ninja platformer that shifts into time-travel exploration
93% positive 13K reviews
The WereCleaner
Stealth comedy about cleaning an office as a werewolf
99% positive Free
Viewfinder
First-person puzzle adventure where placed pictures reshape the world
94% positive 13K reviews
Impostor Factory
Top-down story adventure with time travel and mansion deaths
96% positive 13K reviews
Party Hard
Pixel-art stealth strategy about killing partygoers without getting caught
90% positive 13K reviews
Post Void
Fast-paced first-person shooter where kills refill a liquid-filled idol
97% positive 12K reviews
Montaro
Pixel-art runner where a dog collects coins and protective underwear
95% positive 12K reviews
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Third-person squad shooter confronting aliens in Cold War America
70% positive 12K reviews
Detention
2D horror adventure about escaping a haunted school in Taiwan
96% positive 12K reviews
Baldi's Basics Plus
First-person stealth roguelike in a procedurally changing horror schoolhouse
98% positive 12K reviews
FlyKnight
First-person dungeon crawler with limb-targeting combat and co-op
96% positive 12K reviews
Lunacid
First-person dark fantasy RPG built around dungeon exploration and secrets
91% positive 12K reviews
Luck be a Landlord
Slot-machine roguelike deckbuilder about building synergies to pay rising rent
93% positive 12K reviews
POSTAL: Brain Damaged
Fast first-person shooting inside the Postal Dude's distorted mind
95% positive 11K reviews
Cassette Beasts
Open-world creature-collecting RPG with cassette transformations and monster fusion
94% positive 11K reviews
Worms Armageddon
Turn-based 2D artillery strategy with bizarre weapons and multiplayer battles
94% positive 11K reviews
Idle Slayer
Pixel-art incremental platformer mixing active play with offline progress
85% positive Free
A Bird Story
Short, wordless pixel-art adventure about a boy and injured bird
85% positive 11K reviews
Door Kickers: Action Squad
Side-scrolling tactical shooter with SWAT raids and cooperative play
95% positive 11K reviews
VVVVVV
2D precision platformer where you flip gravity instead of jumping
96% positive 11K reviews
Quake II
Classic sci-fi first-person shooter with campaigns, co-op, and deathmatch
95% positive 10K reviews