The Best 1980s Games for Linux

Update : Twin Hawk added at rank #7.
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Shatter Remastered Deluxe (2022)

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Relive the award-winning classic that redefined the brick-breaking genre. Shatter returns in stunning 4K resolution running at 120fps, with a modernised UI, and multiple visual improvements. Re-experience the highly acclaimed original soundtrack, remixed and remastered in 5.1 surround sound.

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  • destruction
  • cooperative
  • 1980s
  • cyberpunk
  • arcade
  • abstract
  • attack
  • score
  • local
  • physics
  • linear
  • colourful
  • futuristic
  • space
  • pvp

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Cannibal Abduction (2023)

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The family is hungry and he must provide, VHS slasher survival horror.

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  • survival-horror
  • 1980s
  • horror
  • gore
  • mystery
  • low-poly
  • psx
  • retro
  • vhs
  • skin-crawling
  • violent
  • thrilling

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Breakout: Recharged (2022)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux Xbox One Xbox Series X

The original brick breaker returns with its toughest challenge yet. Survive as long as you can in arcade or take on one of 50 challenges picking up game-changing power-ups along the way.

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  • arcade
  • retro
  • cooperative
  • psychedelic
  • modern
  • 1980s
  • multi-ball
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • attack
  • score
  • linear
  • local
  • classic
  • 2d

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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?

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

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Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps & Beans 2 (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

After the shipwreck in Africa, Bud and Terence save a village from criminals and make their way home on a raft loaded with bananas. But of course it wouldn't be a Bud and Terence adventure if everything went according to plan.

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  • 4-player
  • local
  • 2d
  • cooperative
  • 1980s
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • comedy
  • family-friendly
  • retro
  • funny
  • fight
  • arcade
  • party
  • relaxing

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The Eternal Castle REMASTERED (2019)

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Linux Mac OS Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.

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  • cinematic
  • cyberpunk
  • 1980s
  • post-apocalyptic
  • surreal
  • dark
  • action-adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • futuristic
  • remake
  • horror
  • sci-fi
  • old-school
  • survival

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Twin Hawk (2024)

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Take on powerful tanks and battleships with the best use of your fighter in this military themed vertical arcade shoot ‘em up by Toaplan! Summon friendly fighter planes to avoid emergencies and increase firepower. Now on PC with modern enhancements!


  • top-down
  • shoot-em-up
  • 1980s
  • vertically
  • scrolling
  • linear
  • shooter
  • 2d
  • military
  • arcade
  • pixel
  • experimental
  • old-school
  • vertical
  • cooperative

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The Night Of The Inquisitor (2023)

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A VHS/PS1 Survival Horror Experience! Play as Emilia, a young woman cursed by an ancient rosary, transported into the Realm of the Inquisitor, a surreal dimension filled with the ghosts victims of the Inquisitor himself. Solve puzzles, free ghosts, and escape the Inquisitor!

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • assassin
  • thriller
  • retro
  • multiple-endings
  • third-person
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • action-adventure
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • exploration

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Jurl (2023)

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A sci-fi fixed arena shooter, where you can't shoot. Collect the Star Diamonds whilst avoiding the hazards using your thrusters to rotate your ship and then thrusting forward. You can't kill the enemy, so your only weapons are movement, speed and getting you opponents to wipe each other out.

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  • collectathon
  • casual
  • arena
  • physics
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • 1980s
  • shooter
  • war
  • aliens
  • arcade
  • top-down
  • action
  • linear

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RetroRange (2022)

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A casual retro cyberpunk sandbox first-person shooter with object destructive physics.

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  • first-person
  • shoot-em-up
  • destruction
  • 1980s
  • sandbox
  • cyberpunk
  • cartoony
  • shooter
  • colourful
  • fps
  • sniper
  • family-friendly
  • atmospheric
  • old-school
  • casual

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