The Best Old-school Games for Android

Update : Space Wreck added at rank #7.
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Streets of Rage 4 (2020)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

Streets of Rage 4 is the long awaited fourth entry into the classic Sega franchise. It features a blend of old and new, with classic characters such as Axel and Adam Hunter returning alongside a new main character, Cherry. All characters have unique playstyles, from Axel's powerful punches to Cherry's speedy strikes. There are tons of unlockables to discover and it has an amazing soundtrack.


What we like:
  • Satisfying combat
  • Incredible music and visuals
  • Tons to unlock
  • Simple yet rewarding combat mechanics
What could be improved:
  • Lack of 4 player online
  • Occasionally too easy to get cornered

  • brawler
  • boss
  • cooperative
  • beat-em-up
  • combo
  • retro
  • classic
  • side-scrolling
  • fight
  • old-school
  • arcade
  • online
  • hand-drawn
  • crime
  • combat

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Eternium (2015)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Android

Hack & slash against the dark forces threatening your home-world. Experience intense tactical fights in this fast paced, old school action RPG.


  • loot
  • hack-and-slash
  • old-school
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • top-down
  • dungeon-crawler
  • crafting
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • action
  • fast-paced
  • fantasy
  • combat

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Fabled Lands (2021)

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Mac OS Android PC Windows

Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.

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  • rpg
  • rogue-like
  • choices
  • hex
  • party
  • old-school
  • text
  • fiction
  • sandbox
  • turn-based
  • open-world
  • interactive
  • fantasy
  • grid
  • 2d

4

Property Brothers Home Design (2019)

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New levels! New makeovers!

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  • tried-and-true
  • mature
  • old-school
  • truck
  • mech
  • funny
  • resource
  • puzzle
  • waves
  • real-time
  • multiplayer
  • survival
  • endless

5

The Quest (2015)

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The Quest is a beautifully hand-drawn open world role playing game with old school grid-based movement, turn based combat and intricate quests. Explore a huge world, full of challenging mysteries and dangerous monsters!

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  • movement
  • rpg
  • old-school
  • open-world
  • grid
  • dungeon-crawler
  • fantasy
  • turn-based
  • hand-drawn
  • first-person
  • retro
  • fantasy-world
  • adventure
  • action-driven
  • dungeon

6

Battle of Heroes (2022)

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PC Windows Android

The hero acts as a mercenary who is sent to the border of the kingdom. Use combat and magic skills, explore the fantasy world, develop a hero and warriors, towers, aura, magic, weapons. Explore and create magical items. Grow a dragon or a cerberus.

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  • rpg
  • moba
  • old-school
  • pve
  • dungeon-crawler
  • tower-defense
  • third-person
  • fantasy
  • pvp
  • strategy
  • character
  • magic
  • 1990s
  • medieval
  • customization

7

Space Wreck (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Android

Post-apocalyptic retro RPG in space with an extreme focus on role-playing. Inch wide, miles deep - intentionally short yet surprisingly deep and branching adventure with multiple gameplay styles. Combat 100% optional.

Buy

  • diplomacy
  • nonlinear
  • multiple-endings
  • post-apocalyptic
  • lore
  • immersive
  • isometric
  • rpg
  • choices
  • space
  • old-school
  • simulation
  • turn-based
  • atmospheric
  • dystopian

8

Gold Miner (2021)

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PC Windows Android Xbox 360

The Gold Miner is a puzzle game. The goal of the game is to collect all nuggets and jewels in the level and avoid barrels with gunpowder.Collect gems, score points, upgrade your equipment! Try to complete all 20 levels as soon as possible, will you succeed ?!


  • scroller
  • clicker
  • old-school
  • nature
  • arcade
  • casual
  • linear
  • 2d
  • atmospheric
  • achievements
  • challenging
  • classic
  • online
  • skill

9

Caves of Lore (2023)

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Engage in tactical grid-based combat in this classic-styled fantasy CRPG.

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  • rpg
  • old-school
  • tactical
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • 1990s
  • dungeon-crawler
  • pixel
  • 1980s
  • lore
  • turn-based
  • dungeon
  • exploration
  • dark
  • top-down

10

TurtleQuest (2023)

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TurtleQuest is a 2D-Platformer where you are sent on a quest to save your little turtle village from an unknown disease. You have to follow an ancient path through the old mountains, riddled with bewitched traps, to find the sacred plant Zingiber, which might help to cure all turtles.

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  • platform
  • 2d
  • nature
  • old-school
  • pixel
  • precision
  • atmospheric
  • cute
  • action-adventure
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • family-friendly

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