Best Retro Steam Games on Sale

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

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Tomb Raider I (1996) Adventurer Lara Croft has been hired to recover the pieces of an ancient artifact known as the Scion. With her fearless acrobatic style she runs, jumps, swims and climbs her way towards the truth of its origin and powers - leaving only a trail of empty tombs and gun-cartridges in her wake.

Price -50% 3.49€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Nov 2012
Sonic Adventure 2 Experience two unique adventures featuring both long-time heroes and new and returning villains as they battle for the fate of the world!

Price -89% 1.15€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 Nov 2012
Chaos on Deponia With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.

Price -96% 0.83€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Nov 2012
Hotline Miami Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

Price -92% 0.80€
Rating 9.6
Release 23 Oct 2012
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.

Price -95% 0.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Oct 2012
Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement The original puzzle adventure game based on twisted William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Price -92% 0.44€
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Oct 2012
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.

Price -95% 1.00€
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Oct 2012
Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy The world is at an end, and you have 30 seconds to save it!

Price -93% 0.76€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Sep 2012
McPixel McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges to prevent stuff from blowing up. You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!

Price -86% 0.59€
Rating 8.1
Release 25 Sep 2012
To the Moon A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.

Price -54% 4.54€
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Sep 2012
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!

Price -77% 2.29€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Aug 2012
Deponia In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.

Price -96% 0.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Aug 2012
The Book of Unwritten Tales In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.

Price -98% 0.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Jul 2012
Resonance When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.

Price -57% 6.38€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Jul 2012
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav Face your Destiny! In Andergast, whose inhabitants are considered to be superstitious, King Efferdan awaits a state visit from high-ranking dignitaries. For centuries the kingdom has been at odds with neighboring Nostria, but now first steps are being undertaken toward a lasting peace.

Price -97% 0.72€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Jun 2012
Offspring Fling! Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children.

Price -70% 1.85€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 May 2012
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.

Price -72% 2.81€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Apr 2012
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.

Price -94% 0.40€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Apr 2012
Legend of Grimrock Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.

Price -87% 2.07€
Rating 9.1
Release 11 Apr 2012
Wizorb The once peaceful Kingdom of Gorudo is threatened by an evil presence. The only hope for salvation is Cyrus!

Price -83% 0.53€
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Mar 2012
Really Big Sky A super fast, twin analogue shooter for the modern age!

Price -91% 0.43€
Rating 7.3
Release 24 Feb 2012
The Blackwell Legacy When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.

Price -77% 1.05€
Rating 8.5
Release 13 Jan 2012
SATAZIUS The year is 2051. Location: SATAZIUS, a long-abandoned planet. The cruiser Agano was on patrol when it was attacked and stricken by a confederacy of space pirates that had established a base on SATAZIUS. The pirates attacked the Agano intending to steal the assault ship ‘Trafalgar’ that was stowed aboard the Agano, but the Trafalgar made...

Price -86% 0.83€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Dec 2011
Cave Story+ Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.

Price -74% 3.90€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Nov 2011
Gemini Rue Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

Price -92% 0.68€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Oct 2011
Worms Throw a grenade down memory lane with the original and classic turn-based strategy game Worms™! Up to 4 teams of worms do battle over an ever-changing battlefield with falling weapon crates, crazed exploding sheep and more besides. Winner of many industry awards, find out what all the fuss was about.

Price -94% 0.40€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 Oct 2011
Avadon: The Black Fortress Avadon: The Black Fortress is an epic, Indie fantasy role-playing saga. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Use your power to crush a growing rebellion! (Or join it.)

Price -87% 1.38€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Aug 2011
EDGE EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!

Price -94% 0.42€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Aug 2011
Quake 4 As part of the elite Rhino Squad, you must spearhead Earth’s military invasion of a hostile alien homeworld. But, in this desperate war for humanity’s survival against an unrelenting enemy, you may discover that the only way to defeat them...is to become one of them.

Price -93% 1.16€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Aug 2011
Cthulhu Saves the World The lord of insanity, Cthulhu was all set to plunge the world into insanity and destruction when his powers were sealed by a mysterious sorcerer. The only way for him to break the curse is to become a true hero. Save the world to destroy it in an epic parody RPG journey of redemption, romance, and insanity!

Price -84% 0.48€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Jul 2011
Breath of Death VII Resurrect the classic era of RPGs with the retro parody RPG, Breath of Death VII: The Beginning. Join Dem the Skeleton Knight, Sara the ghost historian, Lita the vampire techie, and Erik the zombie prince as they explore an undead world in search of the secrets of the past. Laugh! Cry! Laugh some more!

Price -85% 0.46€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Jul 2011
Jamestown Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.

Price -70% 2.53€
Rating 9.0
Release 08 Jun 2011
The Tiny Bang Story Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Apr 2011
The Next BIG Thing The Next Big Thing is a great adventure game in high definition, loaded with laughs, tributes, mysteries and wacky puzzles!

Price -91% 0.45€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Apr 2011
Runaway: A Twist of Fate Runaway: A Twist of Fate is the adventure game of the year! Featuring a production worthy of a big 2D animated movie, Runaway follows a story full of twists and turns, and packed with comical highlights. All in all, you will be confronted with more than 200 mysteries and puzzles to keep your brain running through a big adventure that you...

Price -83% 0.86€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Apr 2011
Revenge of the Titans The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!

Price -62% 5.65€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Mar 2011

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