Best 1980s Games on Steam
Games soaked in 1980s style, culture, tech, music, or nostalgia.
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1Hotline Miami - Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Oct 23, 2012
In this game, you can…
- slam a door into someone and kill them instantly.
- choose a mask before a level that changes how you play, like silent guns, faster movement, surviving one bullet, or killing with doors.
- pummel someone down, grab their dropped shotgun a split second later, and wipe the rest of the room before it reacts.
- die in one hit, restart instantly, and run the same floor until you've memorized patrol routes, gun reactions, and weapon spawns.
- bait enemies with noise, burst into rooms while they're facing away, and clear an entire floor using what you've learned from repeats.
- chain fast kills into huge combos and score grades, pushing for 20x streaks and top ranks.
- finish a massacre, then walk back to your car in silence after the music cuts out, with the level suddenly feeling empty.
2Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.
Mar 10, 2015
In this game, you can…
- play as a character who refuses to kill, forcing totally different solutions.
- control a duo that fights together, one with a chainsaw and one with a bat.
- build and share custom campaigns in a level editor using the game's characters, weapons, and music.
- restart a failed run instantly and slam back into the same room.
- dual-wield guns and wipe out grouped enemies in a single sweep.
- use a sniper rifle to pick off bodyguards across an open map.
- raid a nuclear power plant with only a four-man squad on a mission you're expected to die on.
- chain kills into massive combo scores and replay stages until you hit an A+ rank.
3Yakuza 0 - SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
Aug 1, 2018
In this game, you can…
- build a real-estate empire and appoint a chicken as your property manager.
- switch between three fighting styles mid-fight, including breakdancing as a real combat style.
- protect a moonwalking Michael Jackson lookalike from zombies using a motorcycle.
- grab almost anything nearby and beat people with it.
- get jumped by a huge crowd, swap styles on the fly, and end the brawl by slamming someone with a street object finisher.
- run a full cabaret club management mode, hiring hostesses and setting them up to dominate the night.
- spend piles of cash to unlock skills and get stronger, turning money into character growth.
- load up the game and immediately go sing karaoke with full music-video scenes.
- play Pocket Circuit toy-car racing and tune your build to crush kids at the track.
4Duck Game - Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.
Jun 4, 2015
In this game, you can…
- mind-control an enemy duck and steer them off the map, unless they're wearing a tin-foil hat countermeasure.
- fake your own death by playing dead, then pop back up when everyone stops paying attention.
- block bullets and wall-climb with a sword, turning it into defense, mobility, and murder at once.
- open a present, pull a reverse pistol, and instantly shoot yourself in the face.
- ragdoll on purpose to gain momentum and launch into huge jumps that would normally be impossible.
- use gun recoil as a movement tool, like firing a huge magnum to kick yourself upward shot by shot.
- slide on your knees to dodge bullets and keep moving while you shoot.
- start each round in a scramble from empty spawns to snag the best weapons before the first one-hit kills begin.
- build maps with hidden weapons, weird powerup placements, spikes, and bottomless pits so the level itself creates kills and escapes.
5Contraband Police - Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.
Mar 8, 2023
In this game, you can…
- take a bribe, stamp someone through, then kill them and loot the rest of their smuggled goods.
- scan a car with a UV flashlight, then rip apart seats, tires, bumpers, and engine bays to uncover hidden contraband.
- hold the border post during timed raids where 30–50 attackers rush you with grenades and cover tactics.
- compare passport photos, expiry dates, cargo lists, vehicle weight, and even paper styles to decide who crosses.
- sell seized cocaine and cigarettes to buy an AK-47, then use it to gun down rebels for promotions.
- go from routine paperwork to responding to murders, ambushes, and sudden firefights as the nearest law enforcement.
- chase fleeing smugglers in a patrol car through mountain roads, then arrest them after the pursuit.
- finish your shift and drive the open world to haul prisoners to labor camps, deliver contraband, shop for gear, and run missions.
- do a perfect border inspection while your character is drunk.
6Retrowave - Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!
May 6, 2022
In this game, you can…
- unlock a Tesla Cybertruck as a surprise car reward.
- drive the wrong way down the highway at full speed and treat oncoming traffic like a skill challenge.
- play a peaceful mode that lets you cruise the music and scenery without needing lots of buttons.
- buy a bright pink Lamborghini Countach, slap on neon purple rims, and smash police sirens as you drive.
- weave through traffic and chain near-misses at high speed to build boost and chase a score.
- switch into cockpit view to make the sense of speed feel immediate while you thread between signaling cars changing lanes.
- flip on a VHS-on-a-CRT filter so every run looks like a retro tape loop through neon traffic.
7Not For Broadcast - A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Jan 25, 2022
In this game, you can…
- juggle camera cuts, audio, ads, and censorship while the control room overheats, shorts out, gets hit by lightning, and keeps trying to shut down.
- change someone's fate by what you play on-air, like tanking a career with repeated boo sounds or saving a life by timing an ad break.
- air a harmless-looking toy ad, then face a later news segment where the presenters react to the fallout from advertising it.
- switch live camera feeds and bleep words in real time, with no rewind, while the broadcast keeps rolling.
- keep a finger on the censor button as guests blurt swear words and political slip-ups you have to bleep on cue.
- keep the show on air while new problems stack up, from signal interference to stuffed-toy chaos to fending off a murderer mid-broadcast.
- broadcast a scandal live when a public official's hidden sex-dungeon story explodes on camera during an interview.
- rewatch the entire broadcast afterward and see everything that was happening off-camera while you were switching feeds.
- shape the country's politics by what you choose to show, making the ruling party's rise and the slide into authoritarianism play out on-air.
8Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit - Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues, and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it's not just your own life that’s on the line this time.
Aug 7, 2024
In this game, you can…
- jump into a ball pit and pop out in the past.
- catch a rat in the past, bring it to the present, and use it to distract someone so you can steal pizza.
- tune a custom difficulty run by changing enemy aggression, interference chances, battery life, warnings, and whether hiding spots even work.
- bounce between past and present, grabbing items in one era to use in the other to solve puzzles.
- watch a yellow rabbit lure kids away, lock them in freezers, and leave bodies behind while you're trying to survive.
- explore Freddy's pizzeria while it's open during the day, then return after things go wrong.
- climb into a Freddy suit to hide, then nail a timed input so you don't get found anyway.
- solve quests and puzzles around town while an animatronic stalks you across locations.
9Tiny 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!
Sep 23, 2022
In this game, you can…
- dash into the center, go intangible, and trigger a nuke on skill use that wipes the room without firing your weapon.
- dash so fast you're throwing area-of-effect knives 7–8 times a second, and stack permanent doubled booze buffs until everything shreds on contact.
- turn into a moving crit turret where every shot crits, triggers extra attacks, and keeps doubling its own damage loop.
- walk around while nearby enemies melt from constant electric damage, without aiming or attacking.
- stack poison darts with infinite duration so the poison keeps growing into a sustained machine that chews through enemies.
- run around with 13+ skeletons and other summons until your minions fill the screen and delete everything for you.
- bat enemy projectiles back at them as a core playstyle instead of just dodging.
- spin a flail so fast it starts firing lasers, or layer a single weapon swing with ignite, freeze, and rapid-hit effects.
10MULLET MADJACK - MULLET MADJACK is a HIGH-OCTANE-ACTION SHOOTER that put you directly inside a CLASSIC ANIME. Pick your favorite weapon and reach the last floor; Beat your best time or try again. Haste makes waste… OF YOUR ENEMIES!
May 15, 2024
In this game, you can…
- start each floor with only 10 seconds to live.
- earn extra seconds with stylish kills like headshots, crotch shots, or kicking robots into TVs and hazards.
- unbox a virtual 90s big-box PC game inside the game as part of its TV-show presentation.
- dash, wall-run, slide, and jump nonstop while pushing to the next elevator.
- kick a robot for an instant kill when you need time now.
- grab a melee weapon mid-run to delete a robot and keep the timer alive.
- clear a floor, pick one of three random upgrades, then immediately sprint into the next handcrafted floor toward a boss.
- turn the timer pressure down or off, then switch it back on once you've learned the levels.
- accidentally wander into an endless run and keep going for 30+ floors.
