Best 1980s Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated 1980s games.

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The Classrooms The Classrooms is a procedural, liminal-space, found-footage, survival horror game. Explore The Classrooms and discover the various anomalies it contains; from malicious entities, to harmless oddities. And remember, it's different every time you play, so your found footage is uniquely yours.

Price 11.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Oct 2022
Vampire Survivors Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

Price -84% 0.82€
Rating 9.7
Release 20 Oct 2022
Nitro Kid Synthwave roguelike deckbuilder set in the neon 80's. Pick your agent. Build your deck. Hit card combos and fight through the floors of INFINITY tower. Featuring 30+ fresh Synthwave tracks by LudoWic, Tonebox and Jules Reves.

Price -98% 0.54€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Oct 2022
Lucy Dreaming 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.

Price 15.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Oct 2022
Stay Out of the House Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Oct 2022
Tiny Rogues Tiny Rogues is a challenging fantasy rogue-lite bullet-hell dungeon crawler with rpg elements. Build a new unique character each run and fight one monster-infested room after another! Discover unique weapons, collect magical items and level up to become more and more powerful!

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.4
Release 23 Sep 2022
Night At the Gates of Hell From the sick mind behind Bloodwash, Jordan King, comes his latest experiment in terror. Inspired by the Italian zombie flicks from Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei, Night of the Gates of Hell promises to be a blood dripping, neon soaked, flesh rotting experience.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Sep 2022
DREAM LOGIC DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Sep 2022
Gunner, HEAT, PC! Gunner, HEAT, PC! (GHPC) is a simulation game about modern mounted combat, with special attention to authenticity and fun.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Sep 2022
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection contains thirteen prior released classic games. This collection is a great place for gamers to experience these popular titles on Steam.

Price -78% 9.01€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 Aug 2022
Regiments Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.

Price -40% 15.04€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Aug 2022
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!

Price -79% 2.06€
Rating 7.8
Release 04 Aug 2022
SCP: Daybreak An open-ended, SCP-based, atmospheric, exploration-focused, survival-horror game with puzzle elements and replayability.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 23 Jul 2022
Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium Play more of your favorite arcade hits from yesteryear. Includes SONSON for free!

Price -93% 4.49€
Rating 6.6
Release 21 Jul 2022
Impact Point IMPACT POINT! – An ultra satisfying, fast paced, 2-4 player, arena based, multiplayer, top down 2D shooter. Grab what you can and battle it out with 2-4 players to be the last man standing in a game heavily inspired by retro and vaporwave shooters.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 20 Jul 2022
MultiVersus MultiVersus is a free-to-play platform fighter that brings the depth of iconic WB stars to life across the nearly endless possibilities of play.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 19 Jul 2022
COMPOUND COMPOUND is a randomized rogue-lite, free-roaming shooter for VR veterans. Duck and dodge around enemy fire in a tough-as-nails retro FPS with multiple locomotion options. Download the demo below!

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Jul 2022
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.

Price -82% 1.51€
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Jun 2022
Trash Horror Collection Welcome to a true 80's trash horror experience. This collection has 10 short horror games that you can freely choose which one you want to play.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Jun 2022
American Theft 80s From the THIEF SIMULATOR developers. It's the 80s. Steal VCRs, tapes, classic cars, and if you get caught, outrun the police!

Price -90% 1.95€
Rating 7.2
Release 15 Jun 2022
RetroArch RetroArch is an open source and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 27 May 2022
The Night of the Scissors Scrap hunting season has gone wrong, VHS slasher survival horror.

Price 2.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 May 2022
Retrowave Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!

Price -87% 0.40€
Rating 9.3
Release 06 May 2022
Dungeons of Dreadrock An immersive puzzle dungeon adventure in the spirit of 1980's home computer games. Dig your way through 100 levels into the ancient depths of Dreadrock Mountain. Winner of Google Indie Games Festival / Indie Clash 1st prize / PocketGamer People's Choice Finalist / GDWC best indie game nominee.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Mar 2022

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