Best Retro Games on Steam

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Punch Club Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.

Price -95% 0.49€
Rating 7.9
Release 08 Jan 2016
Squirbs Squirbs is a challenging puzzle-platformer in which you control two cute blue Squirbs simultaneously with one set of controls. Looking for an awesomely difficult game? That's Squirbs.

Price 0.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 06 Jan 2016
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Jan 2016
Total Annihilation What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Dec 2015
Bubsy Two-Fur Bubsy returns in the first authorized digital release of his first two games! What could paws-ibly go wrong?

Price 20.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 17 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 -96% 0.80€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Dec 2015
Commander Cool 2 Commander Cool 2 is a four player local coop retro-styled adventure that is destined to be one of coolest game in 2015!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Dec 2015
River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~ This is the River City sports challenge! The Rule is simple, be the # 1 in 4 events by all means. That's it! Hitting and kicking? Of course! Wooden swords dumbbells and even bombs are available to use. The great sports challenge where anything's possible has just begun!!!

Price -94% 1.26€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Dec 2015
Taimumari: Definitive Edition Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

Price -66% 2.44€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Dec 2015
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Maker "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Maker" celebrates the 30th anniversary of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series. It has been realized through a collaboration between the creators of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series, Koei Tecmo Games, and the creators of the "TSUKURU" series, KADOKAWA.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 09 Dec 2015
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.

Price -64% 17.64€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2015
One More Dungeon One More Dungeon is a first person shooter roguelike with procedurally generated levels and pixel-art graphics.

Price -91% 0.48€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Nov 2015
Emily is Away Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Nov 2015
Impossible Creatures Steam Edition Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.

Price -90% 1.00€
Rating 9.1
Release 11 Nov 2015
Kero Blaster C&F Inc. teleporters are going offline all over the place, and it's up to an intrepid frog employee to fix the situation.

Price -96% 0.47€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Nov 2015
The Odyssey: Winds of Athena As the Greek Goddess Athena, control the wind, seas, and air to guide the hero Odysseus home from the Trojan Wars. The incredibly realistic water current simulation will amaze and challenge you, as you use your powers to protect the Hero's fleet.

Price -87% 0.65€
Rating 6.2
Release 06 Nov 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 19.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Nov 2015
Dungeon Warfare Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Nov 2015
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game You've just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization.

Price -92% 0.88€
Rating 9.2
Release 01 Nov 2015
System Shock: Enhanced Edition Re-discover what made System Shock the first of it's kind, a ground breaking immersive sim that would inspire a generation of games to come....

Price -93% 0.74€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Oct 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
Twinsen's Little Big Adventure Classic Twinsen's Little Big Adventure is a retro action-adventure game originally released in 1994. Equipped with your Magicball, you will have to face the evil Dr. Funfrock to save your girlfriend and the world of Twinsun.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Oct 2015
Downwell Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Price -82% 0.55€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Oct 2015
Broforce Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.

Price -93% 1.11€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 Oct 2015
Normality A sinister force now controls the city of Neutropolis. A once-thriving city full of beauty and light, Neutropolis has been reduced to a a stagnant pit of apathy.

Price -91% 0.27€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 Oct 2015
Slipstream 5000 Control many upgradeable futuristic racers under arcade or simulation racing style. Experience high speed aerial moves and dramatic crashes on excellently designed tracks.Feel the speed of the slipstream!

Price -76% 0.72€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Oct 2015
Sublevel Zero Redux Sublevel Zero Redux is a roguelite six-degree-of-freedom shooter in a universe where reality is falling apart. Use your zero-g gunship to fight through a vast underground facility, looting advanced weapons to destroy hordes of deadly enemies.

Price 13.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Oct 2015
Mighty Gunvolt Take control of one of three playable characters (Gunvolt, Ekoro, and Beck) as you blast your way past the baddies in stage after stage of side-scrolling action! Each stage ends with a boss encounter. Defeat the boss to complete the stage.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 29 Sep 2015
Dino Run DX DINOSAURS. PIXELS. PYROCLASTIC DOOM WALLS. MASSIVE INDIE CROSSOVERS. Dino Run DX has all of that and more. Come rediscover the original runner and escape extinction all over again.

Price -83% 1.05€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Sep 2015
Cataegis : The White Wind Welcome to Cataegis - The White Wind: Ziggurat Chapter, a frantic 2D arcade action retro-style game that pays homage to the glory days of 8-bit side scrolling gaming.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Sep 2015
Weapon of Choice DX Weapon of Choice is a high-energy, side-scroller in which each playable character is unique with their own special weapon and abilities! Blast insane aliens, find new player characters, and choose between branching paths!

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Sep 2015
Penarium Penarium is a frantic 2D arena arcade game where you take on the role of Willy, trapped in a sinister circus show. Run, jump and avoid an array of killer death-traps while being cheered on by a sadistic crowd that’s out for blood.

Price -87% 1.17€
Rating 7.9
Release 22 Sep 2015
Undertale UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

Price -45% 5.56€
Rating 9.6
Release 15 Sep 2015
Master Spy Throw on your invisibility cloak and put your reflexes to the test in this brutal precision platformer brimming with espionage, intrigue, and betrayal! Featuring an Original Soundtrack by Grammy Award Winner RAC.

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Sep 2015
Comedy Quest Comedy Quest is a point and click adventure game by Trav Nash. Can you become the greatest comedian in three gigs?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Sep 2015
Painters Guild Painters Guild is a management sim where you control an art academy in the Italian Renaissance. Paint artwork as beautiful as the Mona Lisa. Hire painters like Leonardo da Vinci and millions of randomly generated ones. Expand and customize your guild with furniture and more.

Price -96% 0.46€
Rating 6.5
Release 01 Sep 2015

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