The Best Nostalgia Games - Page 5

Update : Monkey Fruit Fight! added at rank #18.
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Ladderway (2023)

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PC Windows

Ladderway is a challenging 2D arcade game where you take the position of Joey, a man trying to climb up a building through several ladders while avoiding Mr. Mica's flowerpots as well as other obstacles.

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  • nostalgia
  • attack
  • score
  • collectathon
  • runner
  • retro
  • minimalist
  • old-school
  • arcade
  • pixel
  • casual
  • procedural
  • building

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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

44

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

45

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

46

YetiFree (2023)

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Linux PC Windows

YetiFree is a retro role reversal of the 90's classic SkiFree. Smash, slam, and blast your way down the slopes to rack up the highest score. The Yeti must feed!

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  • destruction
  • parody
  • skiing
  • nostalgia
  • attack
  • score
  • procedural
  • snow
  • humor
  • runner
  • 1990s
  • retro
  • arcade
  • dark
  • pixel

47

Teamkill (2022)

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early access PC Windows

Inspired by "instagib" and "infection" modes from your favorite games of old, in this arena shooter every match can go from a free-for-all to a team deathmatch in seconds! Teamkill is the free for all where teaming is encouraged!

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  • shooter
  • nostalgia
  • 1990s
  • arena
  • first-person
  • competitive
  • fast-paced
  • fps
  • pvp
  • infection
  • retro
  • sci-fi
  • old-school
  • colourful
  • multiplayer

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Five nights at Stalin (2023)

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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

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Blacken Slash (2022)

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A tactical roguelite RPG where the items you choose define your character. Create powerful builds from an abundance of loot as you try to save a corrupted retro computer system in byte-sized tactical puzzles.


  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • nostalgia
  • rogue-like
  • loot
  • hack-and-slash
  • minimalist
  • rpg
  • isometric
  • perma-death
  • retro
  • replay-value
  • strategy
  • pve

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Colossal Cave Reimagined by Roberta Williams (2023)

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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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