Best Old School 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 old school games.

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Legend of Himari Himari was ambushed! Help her hold out as long as possible, attack enemies, use magic to slay them, maintain Himari’s health level, so she could fight on, and also do not miss!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 19 Mar 2018
Ball laB Ball laB is a hardcore platformer with minimalist graphics.

Price -58% 0.42€
Rating 6.3
Release 08 Mar 2018
FoxTail FoxTail is a classic quest inspired by the mid-90s games. Complex quests and freedom in solving them, an interesting plot, beautiful graphics and, of course, an atmosphere of mystery and adventure.

Price 8.77€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Mar 2018
Avernum 3: Ruined World Wander free through this epic, indie fantasy adventure. Explore a huge world that evolves as time passes. Towns fight battles. Refugees flee. Disasters happen. Features cunning adventures, great depth, and unlimited freedom. Be a merchant or bounty hunter, buy a home, save the world!

Price -97% 0.60€
Rating 7.8
Release 31 Jan 2018
Romancing SaGa 2™ Sit upon the throne of the Varennes Empire and control several generations of rulers in a valiant battle against the Seven Heroes.

Price -70% 7.49€
Rating 6.5
Release 15 Dec 2017
Sky Force Reloaded Sky Force Reloaded is a classic shoot ‘em up experience packed in gorgeous visuals and excellent gameplay. Enjoy flashy explosions, beautiful scenery and massive bosses in single player or local cooperative modes.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Nov 2017
PAKO 2 Getaway driving and gun shooting action in two alternative camera views

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Nov 2017
Mutant Football League Mutants and monsters unleash maniacal carnage on the gridiron in this crazy gore fest of arcade-style football. Packed full of humor, intense online multiplayer action, and strategy.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Oct 2017
Will Glow the Wisp Navigate through psychadelic mazes to chill electornic beats. Imagine a mix between Super Meat Boy and Geometry Wars.

Price -80% 0.41€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Sep 2017
Find You Play every character simultaneously and reunite them in mind boggling 100 levels

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Sep 2017
Super Blood Hockey Create and manage your team in a violent, dystopic world of no-rules, fast-paced, arcade-style, ice hockey action. Adjust training regimens, control diets, administer black market pharmaceuticals, and provide healthcare (or not) to a ragtag team of convicts at the mercy of your underhanded tactics.

Price -77% 3.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Aug 2017
Monsters' Den: Godfall The popular dungeon-crawling RPG series returns! Take your party into procedurally-generated dungeons, fight in turn-based battles, loot and level up! Explore the land and uncover the mysteries of the Godfall!

Price -92% 1.30€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Jul 2017
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is fast-paced, hardcore, arcade FPS, inspired by old-school shooters.

Price -69% 1.59€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 May 2017
SUPERHOT VR Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...

Price -80% 4.69€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 May 2017
Cyberhunt Cyberhunt is a retro procedurally generated twin stick shooter, that takes you back to the sweet to the sweet arcade machines era!

Price -90% 0.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 May 2017
WAVESHAPER WAVESHAPER is a minimalist score attack game in which you attempt to stop the 2D vector menace, one obstacle at a time.

Price 1.89€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 May 2017
aMAZE 2 aMAZE 2 is a straightforward and surprisingly-difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze.

Price -75% 0.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 21 Apr 2017
Full Throttle Remastered Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.

Price -89% 1.69€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Apr 2017
Therian Saga Therian Saga is a MMORPG that tries to stand out of the crowd by offering a compelling storytelling surrounded by a massive mathematical set of rules that define the world your hero will evolve in. It could be said that it borrows elements from old-time MUD games, strategy games and even tabletops RPG.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 27 Mar 2017
Low Magic Age Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.

Price -96% 0.66€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Jan 2017
Kick Ass Commandos Lock and Load! It's time to Kick-Ass. Grab your machine gun, flamethrower, rocket launcher, and grenades. Assault the enemy base and free commandos to join your team while you destroy everything in sight. Make your way through enemy bunkers to rescue your comrades, and kill everyone you encounter!

Price -71% 2.06€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Nov 2016
Razortron 2000 RAZORTRON 2000 is a retro top-down endless racing game. Try to beat your highscore, unlock new cars and climb your way to the top of the leaderboards on this love letter to coin eater arcade machines era!

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Oct 2016
Rock 'N' Roll Defense Rocked by an explosive soundtrack, choose your band, place your equipments and defend the Rock 'N' Roll from everyone and everything who try to pull it down, on a totally hardcore tower defense!

Price -94% 0.30€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Aug 2016
The Eyes of Ara Explore a vast, mysterious castle riddled with secret rooms and challenging puzzles in this award-winning puzzle adventure.

Price -68% 4.02€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Jul 2016
Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade Embark on an epic adventure to save the lands. Form a party by selecting 4 different adventurers from a pool of over 12 unique classes. Battle your way through the cursed lands scaling the highest mountains and exploring the darkest dungeons. Face more than 30 unique challenging bosses in order to reach the capital of the kingdom.

Price -58% 0.42€
Rating 6.3
Release 15 Jun 2016
Dungeon Escape Challenging 2D platformer with simple graphics and a great chiptune soundtrack.

Price -92% 0.35€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 May 2016
March of the Living Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Apr 2016
1993 Space Machine Space shooters never die. 1993 is a testament to that. 1993 is a classic shoot em up celebrating games like Gradius, R-Type and Life Force.

Price -95% 0.52€
Rating 6.7
Release 28 Mar 2016
The Count Lucanor Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.

Price -76% 2.32€
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Mar 2016
Balrum Balrum is an old-school, turn-based, open world RPG with deep tactical combat. Explore a huge living fantasy world with dozens of side quests next to an epic main quest. Grow your own crops, build your home, and craft your own custom items.

Price -91% 1.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Feb 2016
The Quest 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!

Price -50% 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Feb 2016
Bit Blaster XL Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

Price -44% 0.56€
Rating 9.3
Release 22 Jan 2016
UnderRail UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

Price -68% 4.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Dec 2015
Turok A world where time has no meaning - and evil knows no bounds. Torn from a world long gone, the time traveling warrior Turok has found himself thrust into a savage land torn by conflict.

Price -97% 0.76€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Dec 2015
The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians - Enhanced Edition In this tactical combat & dungeon crawler mash-up, explore a massive dungeon, full of danger, mystery and secrets. Fight your way through hordes of enemies and powerful creatures, with your tank, healer & damage dealers party.

Price -66% 6.79€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Nov 2015
Twinsen's Little Big Adventure 2 Classic Twinsen's Little Big Adventure 2 Classic is a retro action-adventure game originally released in 1997. After saving the world from the evilish Doctor Funfrock, Twinsen is now ready to face a new threat coming from outer space.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 20 Oct 2015

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