The Best Nostalgia Games for Xbox One

Update : SANYA added at rank #5.
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Lucy Dreaming (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Android IOS iPhone Mac OS Linux Xbox One

Discover a dark family secret and rid a young girl of her nightmares in this splendidly British point & click comedy adventure. Playing as sharp-witted Lucy, explore both dreams and reality to meet all the colourful characters who'll help you solve puzzles, gather clues and find a murderer.


  • nostalgia
  • point-and-click
  • comedy
  • pixel
  • humor
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • old-school
  • puzzle
  • mystery
  • adventure
  • funny
  • dark
  • retro
  • story

2

A Perfect Day (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Revisit the final moments of 1999 for an eternity. Come face to face with your dreams and regrets. Explore a deep and interwoven narrative, solve perplexing riddles, and even play a few nostalgic minigames. Immerse yourself in happiness and sorrow with friends of ages past in your Perfect Day.


  • fiction
  • nostalgia
  • travel
  • visual-novel
  • narration
  • story
  • investigation
  • interactive
  • emotional
  • time
  • multiple-endings
  • 1990s
  • narrative
  • choices
  • time-management

3

Motesolo: No Girlfriend Since Birth (2020)

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On a late afternoon in Seoul, you discover two people talking at a local cafe, and you spy on their conversation.


  • choices
  • nostalgia
  • fmv
  • god-game
  • conversation
  • cinematic
  • dating-sim
  • music
  • experimental
  • visual-novel
  • text
  • procedural
  • narration
  • fiction
  • interactive

4

Punch Club 2: Fast Forward (2023)

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You have come here to read game descriptions and play fighter management sims…and you’re all outta descriptions.


  • arts
  • cyberpunk
  • nostalgia
  • time-management
  • martial
  • management
  • resource-management
  • rpg
  • 1990s
  • tactical
  • 1980s
  • life
  • sport
  • pixel
  • simulation

5

SANYA (2024)

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A playful narrative adventure about the warmth of fleeting childhood memories: about a little boy named Sanya, rescuing a stray puppy, making true friends, and engaging in many exciting adventures in a small town set in the achingly strange and nostalgic period of the 90s.


  • nostalgia
  • dog
  • 1990s
  • 2.5d
  • narration
  • emotional
  • point-and-click
  • linear
  • narrative
  • hand-drawn
  • adventure
  • choices
  • family-friendly
  • exploration
  • atmospheric

6

Bumballon (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One

If you already own the PS4™ version of this game, you can get the PS5’s digital version at no extra cost. Owners of a PS4  disc copy must insert it into the PS5â’¢ every time they want to download or play the digital version. This product entitles you to download both the digital PS4â'¢ version and the digital PS5’s version.


  • nostalgia
  • collectathon
  • action-adventure
  • bullet
  • cute
  • casual
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • time
  • retro
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • linear
  • fantasy
  • cartoony

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Colossal Cave Reimagined by Roberta Williams (2023)

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Colossal Cave is an exciting point & click adventure into a mysterious cavern - a re-imagining of the celebrated text adventure by Will Crowther & Don Woods. Acclaimed game designer Roberta Williams brings you her vision of the game that inspired her to create her own legendary games.


  • choices
  • escape
  • nostalgia
  • room
  • nonlinear
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • old-school
  • inventory
  • exploration
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • retro

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