Video Games made in the style of games from a past era. Most of these are Indie Games, as low budget means the developers can't afford detailed models or effects. Alternatively, they're Doing It for the Art. A large amount of these are also freeware.
For modern games actually on older hardware, see Homebrew Video Games.
- .flow
- 2Dark
- 7Days (2013)
- 8Bit Killer
- Eighties Overdrive
- L'Abbaye des Morts
- Abobo's Big Adventure
- Action 52 Owns
- ADACA
- The Adventure of Little Ralph
- Adventure Ponies!
- Adventures In In In In
- The Adventures Of Elena Temple
- Agent Armstrong — released in 1999, but looks like a comic book from the 1930s
- Aggelos
- Aground
- Aka Manto
- Alisa
- Alwa's Awakening
- AMC Squad
- AMID EVIL
- Andro Dunos 2
- The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
- Annalynn
- Anodyne
- Anomalous
- Ara Fell
- Arthurian Legends
- Astalon: Tears of the Earth
- Axiom Verge
- Back in 1995
- Balacera Brothers
- BallisticNG
- Balmung Cycle
- Battle Axe
- Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril
- Battle Kid 2: Mountain of Torment
- Battle Princess Madelyn
- Beyond Sunset
- Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard
- Bik
- Bio Lab Wars
- bit Dungeon
- BIT.TRIP
- Blaster Master Zero
- Blazing Chrome
- Bleed
- Blood Breed
- Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
- Bloodwash
- Blood West
- Boxbrawl Delivery
- BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm
- Buddy (2020)
- Buddy Simulator 1984
- Burger & Frights
- Breath of Death VII
- Call Of Saregnar
- Camp Sunshine
- Canabalt
- Carrie's Order Up!
- The Case Of The Golden Idol
- Castle in the Darkness
- Castlevania Rebirth
- cat planet
- Cat Poke
- Cataegis: The White Wind
- Cave Story (unintentionally due to the game's extremely long development by one person)
- Celeste
- Celestial Mechanica
- The Citadel
- Citri Plays Noirwood
- Clarence's Big Chance
- Clockwork Calamity In Mushroom World
- Coffee Crisis
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Continue/Stop/Rise
- Contra Rebirth
- Cookie Clicker
- Core Decay
- Craz'd!
- Creepy Castle
- Crowscare
- Cruelty Squad
- CTHON
- Cthulhu Saves the World
- CULTIC
- Cuphead (not based on retro games but on The Golden Age of Animation)
- The Curse of Issyos
- Cyber Shadow
- Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque
- Dark Judgement
- Dead County
- Dead Seater
- Dead Pixels
- Deathless Hyperion
- Devil Daggers
- Devil's Bargain Bin (Prototype Mansion and Garden Variety Body Horror)
- Diamond Hollow II
- Digital: A Love Story
- Dikembe Mutombo's 4½ Weeks to Save the World
- Dino Run
- Dino Trauma
- Drawgun
- DLC Quest
- Dogurai
- Don't Chat with Strangers
- Don't Look Back
- Don't Shit Your Pants
- Donut Dodo
- Doombringer
- Door In The Woods
- Double Dragon IV
- Dragon Sinker
- Dread Delusion
- Dread Templar
- The Drifter
- Dubloon
- Duck Game
- Dungeon of the Endless
- DUSK
- Dynamite Alex
- Eat Girl
- Endeavor
- The Enigma of Salazar House
- Environmental Station Alpha
- Escape From Lavender Town
- Escape from the Underworld
- Escape Lala
- Eschatos
- Evoland
- Evoland 2
- Eversion (the original freeware version more so than the Steam release)
- Ex-Zodiac
- Exit Fate
- Eyra the Crow Maiden
- Factorio
- FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
- Familiars.io
- Fatum Betula
- Fez
- Fight'N Rage
- Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
- Find the Cure
- Fishing Vacation
- Five Nights at Freddy's World (original paid version)
- Flappy Bird
- Flesh Birds
- Fluunix
- Flywrench
- Franko: The Crazy Revenge - the sequel, Skinny and Franko
- Formula Retro Racing
- The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa
- Future Fragments
- Freedom Planet
- Game Dev Story
- The A Game with a Kitty series:
- Gamer 2
- Gang Garrison 2
- Ganryu 2
- Garage
- GG Aleste 3
- Ghost Hospital
- Ghostly Matter
- Ghoulboy
- Gloomwood
- Golden Force
- GRAVEN
- Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar
- Gyossait
- Half-Minute Hero
- Halloween Hide & Seek
- Hammerwatch
- Hand Of Doom
- Hasslevania
- Hard Hat
- Haunted Halloween 85
- Hazelnut Hex
- Heartbound
- Heidelberg 1693
- Hellbound
- Hero Core
- Holdover
- HOME (2013)
- Hotline Miami
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
- HROT
- How to Raise a Dragon
- Hydorah
- Hyper Light Drifter
- Hyper Princess Pitch
- HYPERVIOLENT
- Iji
- Ikachan
- illWill (2023)
- INCISION
- Indiana Rodent
- Infernax
- Ion Fury
- Iron Meat
- It's Not Me, It's My Basement
- I Wanna Be The Fangame
- I Wanna Be the Guy
- I Wanna Be the Guy: Gaiden
- Jables's Adventure
- Jed
- Jiggly Zone
- Jitsu Squad
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User
- Jumper
- JumpJet Rex
- Jump King
- Just a Cleric
- KAIMA
- Karoshi
- Kero Blaster
- Killer Bear
- Killer Bees
- A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV
- Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! Fukkatsu no Beldia
- Kyle & Lucy: Wonderworld
- KUNAI
- KUR
- Lakeview Cabin
- La-Mulana
- Lasagna Boy
- The Last Door
- Last Legacy
- Lasting
- The Last Night (the original web game; the updated version uses pixel art with 3D lighting and effects)
- Legend of Dungeon
- Legend of Princess
- Level Up
- Life of Pixel
- Linx
- LISA
- LISA: The Hopeful
- LISA: The Pointless
- Little Medusa
- Little War Game
- Lone Survivor
- Lost in Vivo
- Lunacid
- Lunistice
- Lyle in Cube Sector
- M.Stain
- Make a Good Mega Man Level Contest
- Maldita Castilla
- Manos: The Hands of Fate
- MapleStory
- Mari0
- McPixel
- Mechanic Man
- Mega Girl
- Mega Man 3D
- Mega Man 9
- Mega Man 10
- Mega Man 72
- Mega Man: A Day in the Limelight
- Mega Man DOS Remake
- Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Final Attack
- Mega Man Perfect Blue
- Mega Man Revenge Of The Fallen
- Mega Man Rock Force
- Mega Man Rocks
- Mega Man Super Fighting Robot
- Mega Man's Christmas Carol
- Mega Man: The Final Chapter
- Mega Man Unlimited
- Mega Mash
- Meikyuujou Hydra
- Mercenary Kings
- The Messenger (2018)
- METAGAL
- Metaloid Origin
- Mibibli's Quest
- Micro Emblem
- Middens
- Midnight Ultra
- Mighty Goose
- Mighty Gunvolt
- Mighty Jill Off
- Minecraft
- Mini Mix Mayhem
- Minicraft
- Mondo Medicals
- Mother (HorrorShopGames)
- Mother (Irwin Segarane)
- Mother, Is That You?
- Mouth Sweet
- The Mummy Demastered
- Mummy Sandbox
- Mushroom Kingdom Fusion
- Mutant Mudds
- Mute Crimson
- Mystik Belle
- Nestalgia
- Newtrogic Panic
- Nidhogg
- Night at the Gates of Hell
- Nightmare Of Decay
- Nightmare Reaper
- Night of the Consumers
- Ninja Outbreak
- Ninja Senki
- No Delivery
- no-one has to die.
- No One Lives Under The Lighthouse
- Nothing
- Observo
- Odallus: The Dark Call
- Oddity
- Oedipus in my Inventory
- OFF
- Office Point Rescue
- Of Love and Eternity
- Oh Jeez, Oh No, My Rabbits Are Gone!!!
- OMORI
- One Button Bob
- One Chance
- OneShot
- Oniken
- Orchard
- Organ Trail
- Panzer Paladin
- Papers, Please
- Paprium
- Paranoiac (more so the original 2011 version; the remake has more updated graphics)
- Paratopic
- Party Hard
- Pathway
- Pause Ahead
- Peasant's Quest
- Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness: Episode Three
- Perilous Warp
- Peripeteia
- Pillars of Dust
- Phoenotopia
- Pixelvader
- Poacher
- Pocket Stables
- Polyroll
- Postal: Brain Damaged
- Pot of Legend
- Progressbar 95
- Project Warlock
- Protect Me Knight
- PsychoFlesh
- Psychosomnium
- Psycho Waluigi
- Putrefaction
- Pylons
- Raging Justice
- Read Only Memories
- The Red Strings Club
- Remnants
- Retro City Rampage
- Retro Game Challenge
- Revive
- The Rewinder
- Rex Rocket
- Risk of Rain
- Rivals of Aether
- Riverbond
- River City Girls
- River City Ransom: Underground
- Rockmen R: Dr. Wily's Counterattack
- Rogue Legacy
- ROM Check Fail
- Sailor Moon Another Story 2
- Sauna 2000
- Savage Halloween
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game
- Seashells
- Seven Simple Wonders
- Shadow's Ladder
- Shadows of Adam
- Shakedown: Hawaii
- Shantae: Risky's Revenge
- Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
- She Dreams Elsewhere
- Shovel Knight
- Shütshimi
- SIGNALIS
- Sky Serpents
- Slain
- Slay Bells
- Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer
- Slide in the Woods
- Snailiad
- Sol Cresta
- Sonic and the Fallen Star
- Sonic: Before the Sequel
- Sonic.exe
- Sonic Axiom
- Sonic Galactic
- Sonic Mania
- Sonic Robo Blast
- Sonic the Hedgehog DVD
- Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble 16-Bit (16-bit remake)
- Songs for a Hero
- Sorry, We're Open
- Spark & Sparkle
- Spark the Electric Jester
- Sparklite
- Spelunky
- Spuds Quest
- The Spy Who Shot Me
- Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers
- Starbound
- Star Command
- Stardew Valley
- Steel Assault
- Stinkoman 20X6
- Strafe
- Streemerz
- Street Fighter X Mega Man
- Streets of Rage Remake
- Summit
- Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
- Super Columbine Massacre RPG!
- Super Crate Box
- Super Cyborg
- Super Mario 63
- Super Mario Bros. Crossover
- Super Mario Fusion Revival
- Super Mega Man 2
- Super Smash Land
- Super Rad Raygun
- Super Tanooki Skin 2D
- The Supper
- Supplice
- The Sydney Hunter series.
- Syobon Action
- Tanuki Justice
- Tanzer
- Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio
- Team Fortress Arcade
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
- Terraria
- Tess
- ThanksKilling Day
- They Bleed Pixels
- The Third Shift
- Thunderflash
- Thy Dungeonman
- Tick Tock Isle
- Titan Souls
- Toadette Strikes
- Today I Die
- To Do List
- To the Moon
- Touhou Mother
- TowerFall
- Tower of Greed
- Tower of Heaven
- Treasure Adventure Game
- The Treasure Hunter Man series:
- Turbo Overkill
- Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge
- ULTRAKILL
- Undertale
- UnMetal
- An Untitled Story
- VA-11 HALL-A
- Valfaris
- Valkie 64
- Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
- Venture Kid
- Verdict: Guilty!
- Vernal Edge
- Viscerafest
- Vivid
- Voxatron
- VVVVVV
- Walk
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
- Weebish Mines
- White Hell
- Wibble Wobble
- The Wind
- Within a Deep Forest
- Wizorb
- The Wolf and the Waves
- World of Horror
- Wrack
- WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
- Xeno Crisis
- Xeodrifter
- Yes, Your Grace
- YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG
- You Have to Burn the Rope
- You Have to Win the Game
- Yuki Onna (2020)
- Yume Nikki
- Zelda Classic
