The Best 1990s Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : Phantom Fury added at rank #8.
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Prison City (2023)

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

Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle techno-terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses.


  • dystopian
  • retro
  • 1990s
  • crime-ridden
  • 1980s
  • platform
  • 2d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • scroller
  • capitalism
  • side-scrolling
  • cinematic
  • sci-fi
  • pixel
  • action

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Like No Other: The Legend Of The Twin Books (2022)

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Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X

Dan is a bumbling first-time adventurer who risks everything to solve the legend of the twin books by exploring the abandoned town of Red Pines.


  • cartoony
  • clicker
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click
  • 2.5d
  • fiction
  • dungeon-crawler
  • 1990s
  • interactive
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • exploration
  • cyberpunk
  • comedy

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NERO (2015)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows

NERO is a single-player stealth action game set in the jungles of asia. Track down and eliminate your targets deep into enemy territories and sabotage heavy guarded military bases with all the tools at your disposal. Upgrade your skills and experience this escapading campaign of shadows and fire!


  • bullet
  • tps
  • stealth
  • 1990s
  • sniper
  • war-hero
  • time
  • third-person
  • military
  • 3d
  • shooter
  • action
  • gore
  • single-player
  • violent

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Go! Go! PogoGirl (2022)

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

Jump on your pogo stick and bounce, bounce, bounce! Go! Go! PogoGirl is a dynamic, cute and wholesome platformer about a girl and her pogo stick. Bounce your way through the world, collect gems and then bounce some more!


  • platform
  • 1990s
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • retro
  • precision
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • colourful
  • cute
  • nature

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Vaccine Rebirth (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows Linux

Enter once again into the world of Survival Horror.

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  • rogue-like
  • 1990s
  • survival-horror
  • 2.5d
  • time-management
  • resource-management
  • psychological
  • zombies
  • split-screen
  • local
  • horror
  • cooperative
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • procedural

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Alisa (2021)

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

Alisa is a classic late-90s style horror-themed action adventure game set in a fantasy universe inspired on the 1920s. You play as an Elite Royal Agent called Alisa, who wakes up in a strange Victorian mansion and must find her way out while being haunted by materialized / mechanized doll-like humanoids. Explore classic survival horror gameplay with real pre-rendered backgrounds, eccentric currency and item shop, unique player stats boosts, weapon load-outs, a large variety of enemies and locations and surprises around every corner.


What we like:
  • Nostalgic survival horror experience
  • Sound and graphical design inspired by classic titles
  • Interesting story and characters
  • Optional side missions and collectibles
  • Varied enemy designs and difficulty levels
What could be improved:
  • Unintuitive currency system reliant on killing enemies

  • 1990s
  • survival-horror
  • retro
  • gothic
  • historical
  • alternate
  • old-school
  • military
  • horror
  • mystery
  • action-adventure
  • 3d
  • pixel
  • pve
  • atmospheric

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Armored Lab Force VULVEHICLES (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Raze the road less traveled with your Vulvehicle, the ultimate all-purpose armored combat machine! Whether flying through the sky, or burrowing deep underground, these gals stop at nothing to blast through terrain and enemies alike in this comical action STG!

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  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • scroller
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • anime
  • cartoony
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • comedy
  • shooter
  • cute
  • humor
  • sci-fi
  • casual

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Demonic Supremacy (2023)

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Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Demonic Supremacy is an old school 3D shooter with a certain nostalgic flavour and few gamer-friendly features. It offers several hours of hurricane gameplay rocking through memorable levels with the explosive heavy metal soundtrack!

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  • spectacle
  • 1990s
  • shooter
  • psychedelic
  • old-school
  • shoot-em-up
  • first-person
  • demons
  • character
  • retro
  • fps
  • arena
  • supernatural
  • stylized
  • dark

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New Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja (2022)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

We’re back in the distant Past, when “Rock & Roll” was just about rocks and “Fast food”, a dinner that you couldn’t catch. 2 cave dudes named Joe & Mac live in a peaceful and cool village. Cool it was, until a bogus bunch of Neanderthal snatched all the village’s women!


  • dinosaurs
  • 1990s
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • cooperative
  • platform
  • retro
  • arcade
  • comedy
  • colourful
  • controller-support
  • old-school
  • local

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Buggy Racer (2023)

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Experience radio-controlled racing at its finest in this PS1 classic from 1998. Race across 16 different tracks, take on time attack trials and devious challenge maps, unlock new cars, and discover exciting power-ups as you compete to become the ultimate Buggy champion!

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  • racing
  • 1990s
  • retro
  • auto
  • 3d
  • third-person
  • arcade
  • colourful
  • controller-support
  • old-school
  • pirates
  • pvp

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