The Best 1980s Games

Update : Killer Karnival added at rank #1.
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Killer Karnival (2025)

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Killer Karnival is a first-person survival horror stealth game ​where players are trapped in an abandoned carnival ​and hunted by killer clowns, each with unique senses. The player must escape by solving puzzles while remaining hidden to avoid becoming the carnival's next victim.

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  • 1980s
  • hidden-object
  • action-adventure
  • survival-horror
  • dark
  • exploration
  • realistic
  • first-person
  • strategy
  • choices
  • stealth
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • amusement
  • action

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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

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Blitzr Ball (2025)

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An arcade style game where you control a bumper to bounce the blitzr ball! Destroy all blocks to beat levels. Discover power ups and unlock perks to help you along the way!

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  • arcade
  • casual
  • 1980s
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action
  • old-school
  • single-player

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Define (2025)

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As the game progresses, the speed at which the fruits fall will increase, making the game more challenging. Players need to react quickly and accurately determine the landing points of the fruits in order to achieve higher scores.


  • 2d
  • 2.5d
  • casual
  • 1980s
  • puzzle
  • fight
  • platform
  • detective
  • skill

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Double D. F. (2025)

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To bring you the old school 2D space arcade feeling in a modern look and feel. Whether you like the hard core style of the old days, or you have become the more lay back type, shoot your way home at the fun rate for you. Upgrade your ship on the way home, to get ready for the final battle. Have fun!

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  • bullet-hell
  • 1980s
  • 2d
  • shoot-em-up
  • 1990s
  • aliens
  • futuristic
  • colourful
  • arcade
  • space
  • shoot
  • shooter
  • fight
  • old-school
  • retro

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Retro Wave (2025)

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PC Windows

A soothing VR rhythm experience where players drift through vibrant, retro-futuristic landscapes, immersed in mesmerizing synthwave beats. Relax and lose yourself in neon-lit visuals that captivate the senses, offering an immersive journey designed to calm and inspire.

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  • space
  • audio
  • 1980s
  • production
  • retro
  • runner
  • vr
  • sci-fi
  • rhythm
  • fiction
  • psychedelic
  • walking-simulator
  • casual
  • abstract
  • interactive

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LIMB: Origins (2025)

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LIMB: Origins is a dark sci-fi horror game where you must survive in a mysterious parallel world following the disappearance of a research team. Unravel the mysteries of your missing colleagues, explore the world, repair the teleporter, and find your way home.

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  • horror
  • 1980s
  • dark
  • sandbox
  • atmospheric
  • hidden-object
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • open-world
  • investigation
  • simulation
  • survival
  • psychological
  • sci-fi

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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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The Legend of Skye (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

We will step into the shoes of a young druid who will be called upon by her tribe to undertake an important mission. After some events in her village, she will have to leave behind the safety of the forest and venture into a world full of dangers. The fate of the grove will be in her hands.


  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • investigation
  • conversation
  • pixel
  • adventure
  • comedy
  • retro
  • graphic
  • single-player
  • 2d
  • fantasy
  • funny

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Asteroid King (2024)

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PC Windows

Fast pace shooter that has a story to tell. Upgrade weapons and kill bad guys is what this game is all about. The story will make you excited about each level and boss fight!!! Good Luck and Enjoy!

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  • rogue-like
  • 1990s
  • action-adventure
  • 1980s
  • top-down
  • action
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • aliens
  • casual
  • 2d
  • gun
  • arcade
  • adventure
  • atmospheric

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