Best 1990's Games on Steam
Games drawing on 1990s design, attitude, media, technology, or nostalgia.
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1Hotline 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.
2Pizza Tower - Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.
Jan 26, 2023
In this game, you can…
- trigger a timer and race back through the entire level in reverse while a one-hit-kill pursuer closes in if you're too slow.
- become a fire tornado in one level, then get a literal shotgun in another, then play a golf stage where speed is the swing.
- hit Mach 5 and blast through rooms like a ballistic missile once the movement clicks.
- chain runs, slides, dives, wallruns, and grabs into one continuous sprint.
- reach the goal, smash a pillar, and then discover the entrance door is now the exit.
- turn a whole stage into a precision run by collecting every secret, every topping, the special item, and keeping one huge combo.
- hit Lap 2 on the escape and loop the dash again, with the whole vibe flipping into a second, faster victory lap.
- keep momentum through a botched situation by grabbing an enemy near a wall and chaining straight into wall-climbing without stopping.
- perfect boss fights by learning every pattern and winning without taking a single hit.
3Wandering Sword - Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.
Sep 14, 2023
In this game, you can…
- beat up someone you just befriended until they cough up your gifts.
- make one dialogue choice or travel to the wrong place and unknowingly lock out whole questlines hours later.
- recruit up to 14 unique martial artists and learn new techniques by raising friendship with the right masters.
- roam a huge chunk of the world early, poking into towns, mountains, rivers, lairs, and hidden corners for secrets.
- track down side stories that only continue if you investigate, leave, and come back later at the right time.
- switch between turn-based fights and real-time combat, then swap back in for the battles that matter.
- hunt techniques, weapons, recipes, pills, and books, then pivot your main character from fists to sword to staff builds.
- carry power forward into a new run, start stronger, and reroute your choices to uncover different recruits and endings.
4Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection - Command & Conquer and Red Alert are both remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members. Includes all 3 expansions, rebuilt multiplayer, a modernized UI, Map Editor, bonus footage gallery, and over 7 hours of remastered music.
Jun 5, 2020
In this game, you can…
- toggle the visuals between the original 1995 look and a 4K remaster mid-battle.
- roll into multiplayer and face tank swarms so huge someone can show up with 1000 tanks.
- play console-only missions on PC alongside the full original campaigns and expansions.
- unlock a gallery of archived footage, photos, and unreleased music as you finish missions.
- build custom music playlists and loop re-recorded tracks, demos, and alternate versions for an entire match.
- watch preserved, upscaled live-action briefings where officials talk directly to you and the story escalates mission by mission.
- pull off a comeback by surviving a Mammoth tank rush with minelayers, then turning the game around with a capture play.
- win an objective like capturing an Orca, then choose to end it there or wipe the rest of the base for extra control.
5Touhou Mystia's Izakaya - A brand new pixel art restaurant simulator based on the Touhou Project! Play as Mystia, the owner of a small izakaya. Collect ingredients by day, cater to the customers by night, learn recipes from familiar characters, and become the best izakaya owner in all of Gensokyo!
Oct 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- literally sing to your food to boost it, then earn buffs like tossing orders to tables instead of walking them over.
- decode rare customers' cryptic food hints using their likes, dislikes, and past visits, then build a dish that hits multiple preference tags.
- chain rare-guest satisfactions into combo rewards that snowball into spell-card effects, bonus resources, and huge profits.
- scavenge for ingredients on a strict day schedule, where every trip, chat, or quest burns a limited time slot.
- improvise dishes by manually adding ingredients to a base recipe to give it extra tags and match someone's weird cravings.
- preload your night by choosing cookware and station setups that trade off speed, follow-up orders, and handling special guests.
- expand from a tiny food cart into a larger izakaya with more capacity and cooking space, unlocking new equipment along the way.
- befriend characters to unlock recipes and recruit them as helpers, then send them on ingredient-gathering expeditions to keep you stocked.
6Sven Co-op - Sven Co-op is a co-operative game originally based around Valve Software's Half-Life. In this game players must work together against computer controlled enemies and solve puzzles as a team.
Jan 22, 2016
In this game, you can…
- run Half-Life, Blue Shift, and Opposing Force in lobbies of up to 64 players, where tiny encounters turn into crowd events.
- fight through battles packed with huge swarms of enemy AI alongside big groups of friendly AI.
- watch it literally rain headcrabs while someone blasts music over voice chat and everyone yells along.
- crowd around a single headcrab and erase it with a wall of crowbars.
- play the entire Half-Life campaign in co-op with people using custom character skins and soundboards.
- get grabbed by a barnacle and stay helpless until a teammate shoots it to save you.
- revive a teammate with a medkit after they get blown into chunks.
- pick up an enemy shock gun and use its ammo to give armor to other players.
7FINAL FANTASY VII - The RPG classic FINAL FANTASY VII returns to PC, now with brand new online features!
In this game, you can…
- spend hours breeding a gold chocobo, use it to reach a hidden cave, then earn the Knights of the Round summon.
- track down super bosses like Emerald WEAPON and Ruby WEAPON that are tougher than the final boss.
- ride a motorcycle, snowboard down a mountain, and pilot a submarine as surprise detours inside the main story.
- walk out of a walled city and suddenly have a whole world map to freely explore.
- wire magic into anyone, then stack combinations until your party plays completely differently.
- take enough hits to unlock a character-specific super move that can flip a fight on its head.
- race and breed chocobos until you create a gold one that can reach otherwise impossible places.
- recruit party members like Yuffie and Vincent only if you find them through optional, easily missed side paths.
8DOOM + DOOM II - Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.
Aug 3, 2007
In this game, you can…
- play a new episode with an incinerator flamethrower and a CALAMITY BLADE that replaces the BFG with a room-clearing firestorm.
- jump into cross-platform co-op or deathmatch with 16-player online support, local split-screen, and 26 new deathmatch maps.
- scour maps for hidden routes and secret rooms that can stockpile ammo and gear for later levels.
- blast demons with a Super Shotgun that turns fights into positioning puzzles.
- start with a pistol, then carry your supplies between levels as new weapons and enemy types force constant loadout decisions.
- pick between the original MIDI soundtrack and the remixed IDKFA versions on the fly.
9Road 96 🛣️ - Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!
Aug 16, 2021
In this game, you can…
- answer questions while someone holds a gun to your head on a highway drive.
- get robbed, steal a car, eat rotten trash food to save money, then end up helping a revolution before a serial killer nearly burns you alive.
- hit an election-day finale where what your different teens did across multiple trips can change the outcome.
- hitchhike, take a bus, or steal a car, and your travel choice decides which character encounter you get next.
- play as a different unnamed teen each run, with different cash and stamina, trying to reach the border before you collapse or get caught.
- unlock hacking and lockpicking, then use those skills in later runs to open routes and solutions you couldn't access before.
- scrape together food, cash, and a place to sleep by scavenging diners, motels, and gas stations for small tasks that unlock new options.
- pull off a border crossing by choosing a method, then spending your whole trip collecting the specific items, skills, and money it requires.
10DUSK - Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
Dec 10, 2018
In this game, you can…
- start impaled on a meat hook, tear yourself free, grab sickles, and immediately carve through the cult that strung you up.
- grab a powerup that turns time into a "only moves when you move" state, then sprint through a fight in stop-and-go bursts.
- flush toilet paper, books, skulls, and even human entrails down toilets.
- run at breakneck speed, chain huge jumps with mid-air flips, and keep perfect aim while you never take fall damage.
- rotate your gun instead of reloading, then grab a nearby object and throw it as a weapon.
- pick up boulders and hurl them at enemies until they explode into chunks.
- use your sickles to reflect enemy projectiles back at whoever fired them.
- carry every weapon at once, from dual pistols and a super shotgun to a crossbow that pierces and a mortar you can detonate mid-air.
- slide or dodge-roll under incoming attacks, then pop up and blast enemies point-blank with a sawn-off shotgun.
