The Best 1980s Games - Page 3

Update : Tales From Hoia Baciu Forest added at rank #42.
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Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space (2022)

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Linux IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch

A Spacey Classic Point and Click Adventure for All!


  • cartoony
  • cinematic
  • clicker
  • science
  • comic
  • fiction
  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • interactive
  • 1980s
  • hand-drawn
  • book
  • anime

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SUNSOFT is Back! Retro Game Selection (2024)

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Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Playstation 5

SUNSOFT revival commemoration! Three carefully selected songs from SUNSOFT's works from the 1980s: "Wings of Madura," "53 Stations of the Tokaido," and "Ripple Island" are included!

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  • japanese
  • 1980s
  • rpg
  • retro
  • 2d
  • jrpg
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • action
  • platform
  • adventure
  • anime
  • romance

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Murtop (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux

Murtop is fast-paced arcade game packed with action, as if it was taken out directly from the 80's. Do you have enough coins to beat it?


  • arcade
  • platform
  • time-management
  • 2d
  • rhythm
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • humor
  • retro
  • cartoony
  • puzzle
  • logic
  • fast-paced
  • dark
  • pixel

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The friends of Ringo Ishikawa (2018)

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Xbox One Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows

The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa is a unique and inscrutable narrative-brawler that explores the lives of high school seniors contemplating their future after graduation. You play as Ringo and take part in 2D brawler-style combat, buy food and books to replenish your health and stamina, attend classes, study, work part-time jobs and train at the gym.


What we like:
  • Unique experience full of freedom
  • Cool pixelated graphical style
  • Atmospheric soundtrack
  • Discover routines in the town
  • Follow them and learn different actions you can take
What could be improved:
  • No tutorials or hints provided
  • No world map or quest markers given
  • Combat could feel more responsive

  • beat-em-up
  • brawler
  • 1980s
  • martial
  • arts
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • atmospheric
  • drama
  • sandbox
  • anime
  • brawler-type
  • 2d

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The Precinct (2025)

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Android

Averno City, 1983. Gangs rule the streets and your father lies restless in his grave. Clean up the city, uncover the truth, and embark on thrilling vehicle chases through destructible environments in this neon-noir action sandbox police game.

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  • noir
  • heist
  • sandbox
  • nonlinear
  • simulation
  • investigation
  • 1980s
  • procedural
  • immersive
  • detective
  • crime
  • neon-noir
  • top-down
  • driving
  • open-world

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Hannah (2024)

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Xbox One IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

Hannah is a 3D puzzle-platformer game. You play as Hannah, whose doll goes missing and now must rescue it and try to understand her nightmares by making an internal journey to her childhood and find out what went wrong.


  • stealth
  • surreal
  • retro
  • psychological
  • survival
  • 1980s
  • single-player
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • horror
  • -----------------------
  • story
  • dark
  • 3d
  • surrealist

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Jaleco Sports Bases Loaded (2025)

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Bases Loaded brings classic baseball action back! Featuring a unique behind-the-pitcher view, 12 teams, arcade-style gameplay, and intense umpire disputes, this NES & SNES favorite delivers fast-paced fun. Play a full season or a quick game—step up to the plate and swing for the fences today!


  • sport
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • baseball
  • cooperative
  • family-friendly
  • local
  • linear
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • old-school
  • retro
  • controller-support
  • multiplayer
  • fast-paced

28

Bot Wars (2021)

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early access Android PC Windows

Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map. Featuring corporate kill bot armies, ranging from a firearms and beverage manufacturer to a lovecraftian burger cult.


  • capitalism
  • wargame
  • 1980s
  • dystopian
  • tps
  • parody
  • sandbox
  • shooter
  • robots
  • third-person
  • futuristic
  • comedy
  • fps
  • colourful
  • real-time

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The Kids We Were (2020)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A cinematic adventure game with a heavy focus on narrative.


  • voxel
  • adventure
  • 1980s
  • narrative
  • retro
  • story
  • drama
  • emotional

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Paranormal Night Shift (2025)

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PC Windows

Paranormal Night Shift is an observation and spot the anomaly game set in a haunted house in the 1980s.

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  • horror
  • 1980s
  • psychological
  • supernatural
  • gore
  • fiction
  • immersive
  • mystery
  • hidden-object
  • interactive
  • realistic
  • puzzle
  • demons
  • simulation
  • survival-horror

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