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Update : Jupiter Swirl added at rank #40.
Here are our 10 Best Old-school Games, position 11 to 20:
Infernax (2022)
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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows
Embark on an epic, bloodthirsty adventure in Infernax! With challenging castle-dungeons, multiple endings, and the option to play with friends, this retro side-scrolling platformer keeps you on the edge of your seat. Upgrade your character and unlock new skills to defeat demons and reverse the curse on your homeland. With secret areas to discover and a unique morality system, Infernax offers hours of exciting gameplay.
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BuyWhat we like:
- Fun co-op
- Multiple fun endings
- Multiple playable characters
- Lots of replayability
- Incredible music
What could be improved:
- Lots of instadeath pits
- Weird morality system
- Some metroid-esque elements but not a true metroidvania
- retro
- dungeon
- boss
- gore
- metroidvania
- old-school
- platform
- demons
- pixel
- dark
- classic
- side-scrolling
- violent
- fantasy
- castle-dungeon
Fabled Lands (2021)
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Mac OS Android PC Windows
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
Buy- rpg
- rogue-like
- choices
- hex
- party
- old-school
- text
- fiction
- sandbox
- turn-based
- open-world
- interactive
- fantasy
- grid
- 2d
Steel Assault (2021)
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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Linux Playstation 5 Xbox One
Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.
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- post-apocalyptic
- retro
- arcade
- old-school
- pixel
- action
- america
- 2d
- perma-death
- scroller
- futuristic
- classic
- mech
- fast-paced
- tried-and-true
- mature
- old-school
- truck
- mech
- funny
- resource
- puzzle
- waves
- real-time
- multiplayer
- survival
- endless
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Remaster (2023)
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early access Nintendo Switch Xbox One j Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X PC Windows
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a full 3D remake of the first game in the legendary Wizardry series of RPGs.
- rpg
- dark
- dungeon-crawler
- old-school
- party
- werewolves
- character
- fantasy
- dragon
- documentary
- magic
- turn-based
- vampire
- demons
- customization
- old-school
- classic
- retro
- boss-fight
- vampire-slaying
- action
- vampire
- boss
- pixel
- side-scrolling
- historical
- anime
- arcade
- run-and-gun
- 2d
River City Saga: Three Kingdoms (2022)
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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows
River City Saga: Three Kingdoms is a modern take on the classic River City Ransom series, combining it with Romance of the Three Kindgoms to create an exciting beat-em-up adventure. Fight your way through hordes of enemies and upgrade your character with weapons, food, armor or special moves by visiting stores in towns. Interact with NPCs and progress through a six chapter story full of dialogue and comedic timing. Enjoy local or online co-op for up to two players and bonus modes like China Heroes.
What we like:
- Fun beat-em-up gameplay
- Upgradeable characters
- Local or online co-op for up to two players
- Bonus modes like China Heroes
- Full gallery with character bios and music gallery
What could be improved:
- Clunky controls
- Difficult platforming levels in some areas
- Very long story dialogue
- beat-em-up
- spectacle
- 2d
- historical
- old-school
- destruction
- brawler
- fight
- platform
- comedy
- retro
- pve
- family-friendly
- anime
- controller-support
Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness (2021)
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Mac OS Linux PC Windows
Black Geyser is an isometric, party-based fantasy RPG inspired by genre classics. Recruit characters with unique personalities and explore a land ravaged by civil war and a mysterious curse of greed. Your choices, good or evil, will decide the fate of the Kingdom of Isilmerald.
- old-school
- rpg
- choices
- crowdfunded
- isometric
- pause
- character
- party
- multiple-endings
- real-time
- tabletop
- medieval
- tactical
- customization
- fantasy
- rpg
- old-school
- dungeon-crawler
- dark
- party
- fantasy
- turn-based
- werewolves
- classic
- character
- dragon
- class
- vampire
- magic
- customization
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