The 1990s

383 classic games of the 1990s, first released 1990 to 1999, by genre, and the games inspired by them.

Genres of the 1990s

• Action: 26 classics
• Adventure: 33 classics
• Role-playing: 52 classics
• Blobber: 5 classics
• Strategy: 50 classics
• Simulation: 28 classics
• Sports: 19 classics
• Racing: 31 classics
• Puzzle: 14 classics
• Shooter: 46 classics
• Platformer: 26 classics
• Fighting: 20 classics
• Arcade: 7 classics
• Horror: 9 classics
• Music & Rhythm: 6 classics
• Educational: 6 classics
• Party: 2 classics
• Sandbox: 1 classic
• Card & Board: 2 classics

Games inspired by 1990s games

• ADOM: Classic roguelike long distributed from its author's site; later remade on Steam.
• Dwarf Fortress (Classic): ASCII colony sim given away from Bay 12's site for 16 years before the 2022 Steam edition.
• Infra Arcana: Free Lovecraftian roguelike shared from the author's own pages.
• Mines of Morgoth: Moria-style Tolkien roguelike for mobile.
• Sil: Free Angband-derived roguelike set in Tolkien's First Age.
• Sil-Q: Community continuation of Sil with new abilities and fixes.
• Tales of Maj'Eyal: Open-source roguelike grown from the 1990s Tales of Middle-earth Angband variant.
• Commander Genius: Engine that runs all classic Commander Keen episodes.
• Omnispeak: Reimplementation of the Keen Galaxy engine, hosted on the author's own site.
• G-Zero: F-Zero-style racing game running on the Sega Genesis.
• Redout: Anti-gravity racer in the Wipeout and F-Zero lineage.
• Berwick Saga: Second Kaga tactics RPG after Tear Ring Saga.
• Tear Ring Saga: Fire Emblem creator Shouzou Kaga's successor after leaving Intelligent Systems.
• Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions: Kaga's indie tactics RPG, first released free for Japanese PCs, later on Steam.
• King's Bounty: The Legend: Licensed reimagining of King's Bounty.
• Legends of Eisenwald: Small Belarusian studio's medieval strategy RPG in the HoMM and King's Bounty vein.
• Knights of the Chalice 2: Kickstarted sequel aiming to recreate Gold Box and Dark Sun tactical combat.
• ScummVM: Huge project that reimplements hundreds of adventure and RPG engines from LucasArts, Sierra, Origin and more.
• Slipstream: Kickstarted solo-made OutRun-style racer.
• Darkness of Monkey Island: Monkey Island fan sequel, declared dead by its team.
• Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure: Small follow-up made to test Ron Gilbert's new engine.
• Fate of Monkey Island: Finished one-person Monkey Island fan game hosted on the creator's own site.
• Legend of LeChuck: Second Monkey Island fan game by the Fate of Monkey Island author; demo released.
• Monkey Island: Carnaval Vudu: Spanish Monkey Island fan adventure.
• Picaroon: The Lost Years: Episodic Monkey Island fan project.
• The Secret of Mount Monkey: Unfinished German Monkey Island fan adventure with a demo.
• Thimbleweed Park: Kickstarted point-and-click by Maniac Mansion's creators.
• Thimbleweed Park 2: Announced sequel listed for 2028.
• Unforeseen Incidents: Hand-drawn German indie adventure in the LucasArts tradition.
• Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo: Vertical arcade shmup in 16-bit style.
• FreeRails: Free Railroad Tycoon-style game.
• Transport Fever: Swiss studio's transport tycoon spanning 150 years.
• Thrive: Free open-source evolution game in the spirit of Spore.
• WorldBox: Pixel-art god sandbox by a solo developer.
• Drox Operative: Space action RPG mixing 4X politics with loot.
• Drox Operative 2: Sequel to Drox Operative.
• Star Control: Origins: Licensed prequel-reboot of Star Control.
• Starsector: Top-down space fleet RPG sold DRM-free only from the developer's own site, never on Steam.
• Strange Adventures in Infinite Space: Short space exploration and strategy game first sold from the developer's own site.
• The Ur-Quan Masters: Port of the 3DO Star Control II source, free to play.
• The Ur-Quan Masters HD MegaMod: HD remaster mod of The Ur-Quan Masters.
• Ur-Quan Masters: Open-source port of Star Control II from the 3DO source.
• Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space: Sequel to Strange Adventures in Infinite Space.
• Chocolate Stunts: Rebuildable reconstruction of the 4D Sports Driving / Stunts source.
• Ultimate Stunts: Free remake of Stunts with its own track editor.
• Gunlord: Turrican-style run-and-gun originally released on Neo Geo and Dreamcast; Gunlord X followed on Switch and PS4.
• Hurrican: Freeware Turrican-style game, later open sourced.
• T4 Funeral: Turrican fan sequel.
• Valfaris: Heavy-metal 16-bit style action platformer.
• FreeLords: Open-source remake of Warlords II.