The Best Old-school Games

Update : Scary Tales: Horror School added at rank #1.
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Scary Tales: Horror School (2025)

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Scary Tales: Horror School is a first-person survival horror game where you must solve puzzles, evade terrifying entities, and escape a haunted school. With three unique escape routes, each offering different challenges, can you survive the nightmare or become another lost soul?

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  • horror
  • procedural
  • mystery
  • survival-horror
  • cinematic
  • multiple-endings
  • hidden-object
  • old-school
  • action-adventure
  • dungeon
  • stylized
  • dark
  • supernatural
  • first-person
  • psychological

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Jupiter Swirl (2025)

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Fluid dynamics simulation where you control a throttle and attempt to maneuver the ball past your opponent. Progress to higher levels, encounter unique map challenges, and devise new strategies.

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  • 2d
  • simulation
  • old-school
  • linear
  • arcade
  • platform

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Screen TRPG (2025)

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A game for online tabletop role-playing, where you can play solo adventures, join friends for multiplayer role-playing, and even create your own story.

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  • rpg
  • fiction
  • strategy
  • point-and-click
  • dungeon-crawler
  • choices
  • old-school
  • text
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • turn-based
  • dice-roll
  • tabletop
  • third-person
  • simulation

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Landonia (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Developed by a one-man team, Landonia is a single-player, turn-based RPG that includes permadeath, loot, factions, level grinding, and class-based progression.  Your characters can interact with each other to help -- or stop -- each other in the land of Landonia!

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  • tutorial
  • class
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rpg
  • pve
  • old-school
  • loot
  • mythology
  • rogue-like
  • magic
  • 1990s
  • medieval
  • exploration
  • classic
  • open-world

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Magical Frontline (2025)

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PC Windows

The Fantasy Card Game is available in version 2.0 with 3 New Game Modes, more advanced enemies, cards and more. The Magic Battles for the supremacy in the territory, Local Multiplayer, Tower of Mytikas and Conquest in Ziliana Gorge. Zeus awaits in the Top, the glory awaits for you. Play Now.

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  • solitaire
  • tabletop
  • old-school
  • rpg
  • dystopian
  • card
  • stylized
  • dragon
  • colourful
  • turn-based
  • magic
  • casual
  • sci-fi
  • tactical
  • family-friendly

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Depths of Faveg (2024)

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PC Windows

Fight your way through hordes of monsters, and try to reach the fabled treasure at the bottom of the dungeon of Faveg in this brutal Roguelike RPG. Can you train a party strong enough?

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  • rpg
  • turn-based
  • class
  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • japanese
  • old-school
  • dungeon-crawler
  • character
  • tactical
  • retro
  • customization
  • jrpg
  • pixel
  • classic

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Mighty Marbles (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Welcome to Mighty Marbles, a cute physics based game where you control the level to guide the marble to victory. Inspired by the desire to see real life physics toys as a video game! Roll, solve and triumph in the fast paced bite sized levels.

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  • collectathon
  • tabletop
  • 3d
  • time-management
  • platform
  • physics
  • old-school
  • puzzle
  • retro
  • logic
  • family-friendly
  • stylized
  • casual
  • arcade
  • colourful

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Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy (2024)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Swordhaven is a classic party-based RPG. Explore the land of Nova Drakonia, embark on quests unique to your character, discover mysterious artefacts of the ancients, and unravel a hidden conspiracy that threatens the very existence of the world.


  • rpg
  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • old-school
  • party
  • lore
  • isometric
  • strategy
  • classic
  • fantasy
  • medieval
  • character
  • customization
  • top-down
  • 3d

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Ravensthorn (2024)

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PC Windows

Woken up on an uncharted land, it is now up to you to defend the Dreamrealm from corruption. Embark on a folkloric journey and find out what's the source of all evil in this world of fairytales.

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  • rpg
  • old-school
  • fantasy
  • cooking
  • medieval
  • mythology
  • choices
  • sandbox
  • cartoony
  • building
  • third-person
  • crafting
  • survival
  • colourful
  • exploration

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Dawn of the Ashen Queen (2024)

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PC Windows

Dawn of the Ashen Queen is a classic grid-based dungeon crawler. Set out with your party to reveal the legacy of a millennia old curse in a narrative-rich experience. Explore the colorful world of Eshavon, unearth its many secrets and fight dangerous foes sent out to stop you in your mission.

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  • old-school
  • movement
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rpg
  • grid
  • party
  • character
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • magic
  • linear
  • customization
  • exploration
  • story
  • first-person

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