The 1980s

283 classic games of the 1980s, first released 1980 to 1989, by genre, and the games inspired by them.

Genres of the 1980s

• Action: 32 classics
• Adventure: 26 classics
• Role-playing: 30 classics
• Blobber: 4 classics
• Strategy: 21 classics
• Simulation: 10 classics
• Sports: 16 classics
• Racing: 12 classics
• Puzzle: 10 classics
• Shooter: 49 classics
• Platformer: 34 classics
• Fighting: 7 classics
• Arcade: 20 classics
• Horror: 3 classics
• Educational: 5 classics
• Sandbox: 1 classic
• Card & Board: 3 classics

Games inspired by 1980s games

• Akalabeth Pyxel: Pyxel retro-engine remake of Akalabeth.
• Vecalabeth: Vector-graphics remake of Akalabeth hosted on the Ultima Codex.
• Missile Command (Minionsoft remake): PC remake of the Atari arcade game.
• Munchman: A maze muncher for up to four players
• Darkula: Free retro arcade game.
• Dusk '82: Ultimate Edition: Top-down 8-bit demake of Dusk in early arcade style.
• Verminian Trap: Free retro arcade game.
• Death Came from Verminest: Free follow-up to They Came from Verminest.
• They Came from Verminest: Free fixed-screen arcade shooter.
• 100 Rogues: Comedic iOS roguelike in classic dungeon style.
• ADOM: Classic roguelike long distributed from its author's site; later remade on Steam.
• Brogue: Free elegant ASCII roguelike originally offered only from its author's site.
• Brogue: Community Edition: Community-maintained continuation of Brogue.
• Caves of Qud: Science-fantasy roguelike RPG in classic tile style.
• Cogmind: Sci-fi robot-building roguelike drawn in ASCII-style terminal graphics, long sold from its creator's site.
• Desktop Dungeons: Puzzle-like ten-minute roguelike, first released free from its own site.
• DRL (DoomRL): Free turn-based roguelike version of Doom distributed from ChaosForge's site.
• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: Free open-source continuation of Linley's Dungeon Crawl, never put on Steam.
• Dungeon Monkey Eternal: Free tactical party dungeon crawler released on the author's GitHub.
• Dungeonmans: Comedic classic-style roguelike with an academy for heroes.
• Dungeons of Dredmor: Comedic graphical roguelike in the NetHack mold.
• Dungeons of Everchange: Traditional roguelike with switchable real-time mode; an ASCII edition is on itch.io.
• Dungeons of Miasma: First-person crawler blended with an ASCII roguelike.
• Dwarf Fortress (Classic): ASCII colony sim given away from Bay 12's site for 16 years before the 2022 Steam edition.
• Golden Krone Hotel: Vampire-themed roguelike with light and shadow mechanics.
• Golel: First-person roguelike dungeon crawler by a solo developer.
• Haque: Glitchy low-resolution roguelike in an Atari-era style.
• Infra Arcana: Free Lovecraftian roguelike shared from the author's own pages.
• Jupiter Hell: Full 3D commercial successor to DoomRL.
• Lost Labyrinth DX: Updated edition of the 2001 freeware graphical roguelike Lost Labyrinth.
• Moonring: Free Ultima-like by a Fable co-creator.
• Moraff's Revenge: Shareware dungeon crawler with a 17-level beginner version and 70 registered levels.
• NEO Scavenger: Hex-map post-apocalyptic survival RPG first sold from the developer's site.
• Path of Achra: Traditional roguelike built around huge build combinations.
• Pixel Dungeon: Small open-source pixel-art roguelike for phones and PC.
• POWDER: Free roguelike first made for the Game Boy Advance, spread from the author's site.
• Rogue Fable III: Traditional turn-based roguelike grown from free browser games on itch.io.
• Rogue Fable IV: Latest of a decade-long series of traditional roguelikes.
• Rogue Survivor: Free zombie-apocalypse roguelike shared from the author's blog.
• Rogue Wizards: Turn-based roguelike in the style of Mystery Dungeon.
• Roguecraft: Modern roguelike made for the Amiga, later on Spectrum Next, Game Boy Color and MEGA65.
• Shattered Pixel Dungeon: Open-source expanded fork of Pixel Dungeon.
• Smart Kobold: Tiny seven-day roguelike by the author of POWDER.
• Spelunky Classic: Free original Game Maker version of Spelunky, distributed from the author's site.
• The Rogue Fable: Free browser roguelike about stealing the Goblet of Yendor.
• Ultima Ratio Regum: Free ASCII roguelike about a 17th-century conspiracy, released only from the author's blog.
• UnReal World: Iron Age Finland survival roguelike sold from its own site for 24 years before Steam.
• Zorbus: Traditional turn-based tile roguelike, free from its site and later on Steam.
• Hadean Lands: Kickstarted alchemical text adventure in the Infocom tradition.
• Thaumistry: In Charm's Way: Kickstarted text adventure by Infocom veteran Bob Bates.