The Best Nostalgia Games - Page 4

Update : Projected Dreams added at rank #1.
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Demons Ate My Neighbors! (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Demons & VHS horrors terrorize y'alls neighborhood, a nostalgia nightmare! DAMN is a manic adventure roguelite shooter, & funky spin on co-op arcade classics. Find & exorcise neighbors from hell with upgrades, holy squirt guns & household weapons… before the ICE CREAM MAN gets ya! GET PUMPED!

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  • rogue-like
  • nostalgia
  • campaign
  • gun
  • soundtrack
  • customization
  • cooperative
  • perma-death
  • 2.5d
  • 1990s
  • shoot-em-up
  • twin-stick
  • character
  • procedural
  • 1980s

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Paws CPCSpectrum (2023)

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PC Windows

In this unique top-down game from 1985, you are a mother cat whose twelve young kittens have wandered off into a labarinthine town prowled by fearsome dogs. Can you save them all?

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  • nostalgia
  • cats
  • top-down
  • retro
  • pve
  • shooter
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • dog
  • 2d

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My Name is Uncle Groucho You Win a Fat Cigar (2023)

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PC Windows

In this bizarre graphically-augmented text-adventure originally released in 1983 from the mind of Mel Croucher, Uncle Groucho is your guide in a wacky alternative Hollywood where cigars are currency and you are as likely to travel in a space shuttle as in a covered wagon.

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  • america
  • nostalgia
  • text
  • retro
  • surreal
  • funny
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • comedy
  • colourful
  • gambling
  • pixel
  • text-adventure
  • fiction
  • choices

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Five nights at Stalin (2023)

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PC Windows Android

A horror game in which the main antagonist is Stalin himself, or rather his statue. The player must use all the resources given to him to stand up to the mighty foe, or else he will face either dismissal or something worse...


  • time-management
  • point-and-click
  • horror
  • first-person
  • nostalgia
  • 3d
  • real-time
  • hardcore
  • action
  • historical
  • atmospheric
  • tactical
  • comedy
  • pve
  • realistic

35

Kikstart: Off-Road Simulator (2023)

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atari 8-bit c16 plus/4 commodore 64 PC Windows

In this tricky stunt motorcycle simulator, originally released in 1984 for the Commodore 64, race your motorcycle across a series of tricky courses. Single-player and 2-player modes available. Also includes the expanded Commodore 128 version.

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  • motocross
  • motorbike
  • bikes
  • nostalgia
  • scroller
  • retro
  • racing
  • pvp
  • sport
  • local

36

Rustystreet (2023)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Every day, tens of thousands of dreams are born, destroyed and reborn

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  • nostalgia
  • 1980s
  • 2d
  • stylized

37

Colossal Cave Reimagined by Roberta Williams (2023)

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

Colossal Cave is an exciting point & click adventure into a mysterious cavern - a re-imagining of the celebrated text adventure by Will Crowther & Don Woods. Acclaimed game designer Roberta Williams brings you her vision of the game that inspired her to create her own legendary games.

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  • choices
  • escape
  • nostalgia
  • room
  • nonlinear
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • old-school
  • inventory
  • exploration
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • retro

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Within the Backrooms (2023)

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PC Windows

You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.

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  • lore
  • nostalgia
  • soundtrack
  • surreal
  • 1990s
  • multiple-endings
  • stylized
  • atmospheric
  • retro
  • nonlinear
  • exploration
  • open-world
  • adventure

39

Kind Heart Defenders (2022)

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Kind Heart Defenders is an experience that brings the best of Space Shooter with the best of Tower Defense. Have fun building towers, trying different ships, laughing at the characters' jokes, and battling through intergalactic scenarios and gigantic bosses.


  • tower-defense
  • jet
  • flight
  • nostalgia
  • spaceships
  • cute
  • space
  • strategy
  • shooter
  • short
  • colourful
  • casual

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Lucy Dreaming (2022)

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Discover a dark family secret and rid a young girl of her nightmares in this splendidly British point & click comedy adventure. Playing as sharp-witted Lucy, explore both dreams and reality to meet all the colourful characters who'll help you solve puzzles, gather clues and find a murderer.


  • nostalgia
  • point-and-click
  • comedy
  • pixel
  • humor
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • old-school
  • puzzle
  • mystery
  • adventure
  • funny
  • dark
  • retro
  • story

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