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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.

Minishoot' Adventures
Top-down spaceship shooter with open-ended exploration and bullet-heavy bosses
98% positive 8,304 reviews
PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+
Fast-paced arcade maze game about chaining and eating ghosts
96% positive 8,241 reviews
Broken Age
Hand-animated point-and-click adventure following two teenagers in different worlds
84% positive 8,235 reviews
Prodeus
Retro first-person shooter with bloody firefights and player-made maps
92% positive 8,227 reviews
Two Point Campus
Campus management sim about building schools and running unusual courses
88% positive 8,215 reviews
UnEpic
2D action RPG with castle exploration and a murderous shadow
91% positive 8,187 reviews
Chained Echoes
Story-driven pixel RPG with turn-based battles, exploration, and mechs
89% positive 8,163 reviews
Digseum
Short incremental clicker about excavating relics and building a museum
98% positive 8,160 reviews
Parkitect
Theme park management sim with custom coasters and online co-op
94% positive 8,150 reviews
Coromon
Pixel-art creature-collecting RPG with strategic, stamina-based turn-based battles
84% positive 8,083 reviews
Echo Point Nova
Open-world first-person shooter built around high-speed movement and combat
97% positive 8,009 reviews
Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 (2003 re-release)
3D platformer with racing, puzzles, and collectible-filled levels
93% positive 7,964 reviews
DuckTales: Remastered
Remade 2D platformer following Scrooge McDuck's worldwide treasure hunt
88% positive 7,951 reviews
STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection
Two classic sci-fi shooters with ground and space battles
24% positive 7,790 reviews
Rise to Ruins
Village-building strategy with daytime expansion and nightly monster attacks
88% positive 7,762 reviews
AMID EVIL
Retro first-person fantasy shooter with soul-charged weapons and secrets
93% positive 7,734 reviews
Rusted Warfare - RTS
Large-scale 2D real-time strategy with extensive mod support
96% positive 7,596 reviews
Turbo Overkill
Fast-paced cyberpunk first-person shooter with wall-running and chainsaw slides
94% positive 7,546 reviews
UFO 50
Retro collection of 50 complete games across varied genres
95% positive 7,511 reviews
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Turn-based chess roguelike with a shotgun instead of an army
91% positive 7,445 reviews
Drift86
Arcade drift racer with score combos and online multiplayer
87% positive 7,428 reviews
Day of Defeat
Class-based World War II FPS built around team objectives
90% positive 7,378 reviews
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Supernatural horror visual novel about investigating deadly urban legends
95% positive 7,278 reviews
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
Metroidvania action platformer about a rabbit resisting a mechanical army
86% positive 7,268 reviews