The Best 1990s Games

Update : Ra Ra Boom added at rank #4.
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Home Safety Hotline (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows j

Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.

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  • horror
  • fmv
  • typing
  • 1990s
  • text
  • fiction
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • point-and-click
  • mythology
  • comedy
  • interactive
  • historical
  • simulation
  • alternate

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Happy's Humble Burger Farm (2021)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch

Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.


  • horror
  • humor
  • time-management
  • immersive
  • 1990s
  • dystopian
  • survival-horror
  • dark
  • simulation
  • management
  • conspiracy
  • lore
  • atmospheric
  • pixel
  • 3d

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The House of the Dead 2: Remake (2025)

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80
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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5

THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2: Remake is a remake of the second entry in the well-known and popular rail-shooter series. Take on the lone role of a secret agent as James or Gary, or team up in co-op mode to neutralize the dangerous undead monsters standing in your way.

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  • shooter
  • on-rails
  • arcade
  • remake
  • 1990s
  • zombies
  • cooperative
  • first-person
  • local
  • gore
  • 3d
  • multiple-endings
  • horror
  • old-school

4

Ra Ra Boom (2025)

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Playstation 4 Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X j

Grab your pom poms and gear up for 4-player co-op action with a modern twist! Ra Ra BOOM rockets you to a future Earth overrun by rogue AI. Battle waves of enemies and upgrade your ninja cheerleader’s skills as you beat ‘em up, shoot ‘em up, and smash through the chaos!

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  • beat-em-up
  • robots
  • comic
  • shoot-em-up
  • 1990s
  • hand-drawn
  • ninja
  • local
  • cooperative
  • post-apocalyptic
  • book
  • action-adventure
  • futuristic
  • brawler
  • boss-fight

5

CrushBorgs (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 j Xbox Series X

"Run and Gun" oldschool single-player platformer with NES aesthetics, including an authentic 8-bit chiptune.

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  • 1990s
  • retro
  • platform
  • 2d
  • sci-fi
  • robots
  • scroller
  • shooter
  • single-player
  • arcade
  • pixel
  • action
  • boss

6

Petal Crash (2020)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Android

Crash blocks together into huge chain reactions in this frantic arcade action puzzler! Pick your favorite character and experience their tale in the Story Mode, solve tricky brain teasers and make your own in Puzzle Mode, shoot for high scores in Solo Play, or go head to head in Versus Mode!


  • 1990s
  • character
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • cute
  • puzzle
  • cartoony
  • comedy
  • city-states
  • logic
  • arcade
  • anime
  • twin
  • family-friendly
  • local

7

YOUR HOUSE (2025)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Mac OS Android

A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.


  • thriller
  • noir
  • interactive
  • mystery
  • comic
  • book
  • fiction
  • detective
  • story
  • puzzle
  • visual-novel
  • investigation
  • 1990s
  • text
  • narration

8

Cleo - a pirate's tale (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.


  • investigation
  • pirates
  • 1990s
  • logic
  • linear
  • narration
  • top-down
  • comedy
  • point-and-click
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • funny
  • 2d
  • old-school
  • retro

9

INCISION (2022)

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early access PC Windows Android

All old-school FPS action. No Bullshit. Lots of blood & gore. Slaughter your way through nightmarish industrial mazes, transformed cityscapes and surreal alien structures to cut down the Growth in this ultraviolent, fast-paced, and merciless retro-styled first person shooter.


  • transhumanism
  • 1990s
  • first-person
  • shooter
  • retro
  • fps
  • post-apocalyptic
  • old-school
  • historical
  • alternate
  • surreal
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • demons
  • gore

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Rendering Ranger: R2 Rewind (2025)

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PC Windows

You are the Rendering Ranger, a special forces soldier defending Earth from a devastating alien invasion through nine levels of action platforming as well as blisteringly fast horizontal shooter stages. Originally developed for Super Famicom by Manfred Trenz, creator of the Turrican series.

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  • shoot-em-up
  • scroller
  • retro
  • 1990s
  • pixel
  • shooter
  • arcade
  • space
  • attack
  • score
  • sci-fi
  • action
  • aliens
  • linear

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