>> best 1980s games on steam the full ranking

These are the best 1980s games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled 1980s games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what 1980s fans genuinely keep coming back to.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

beats 77%

52 players

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Games ranked by the share of a typical library they beat.
rk	game	players	beats
02	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition	12 players	beats 78%
03	Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number	200 players	beats 73%
04	Formula Legends	3 players	beats 84%
05	Hotline Miami	340 players	beats 71%
06	Gunner, HEAT, PC!	7 players	beats 76%
07	Wizardry Variants Daphne	4 players	beats 78%
08	HROT	17 players	beats 71%
09	ARCADE GAME SERIES: PAC-MAN	5 players	beats 75%
10	Victory Heat Rally	4 players	beats 76%
11	Mixtape	13 players	beats 70%
12	MOLE	4 players	beats 75%
13	Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit	16 players	beats 68%
14	Police Quest™ Collection	3 players	beats 76%
15	Lake	16 players	beats 67%
16	Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection	3 players	beats 75%
17	Moving Out 2	3 players	beats 75%
18	Maximum Action	6 players	beats 67%
19	Punch Club 2: Fast Forward	12 players	beats 64%
20	FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse	3 players	beats 70%
21	Pinball FX Midnight	3 players	beats 69%
22	DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake	4 players	beats 66%
23	STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator	6 players	beats 64%
24	Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration	3 players	beats 65%
25	Blippo+	3 players	beats 63%
26	Yakuza 0 Director's Cut	10 players	beats 59%
27	Amenti	3 players	beats 59%
28	Not For Broadcast	50 players	beats 55%
29	Karate Survivor	8 players	beats 55%
30	WASTED	12 players	beats 55%
31	Tiny Rogues	45 players	beats 54%
32	Cyber Hook	30 players	beats 53%
33	DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake	9 players	beats 54%
34	Stories Untold	22 players	beats 53%
35	UFO 50	28 players	beats 53%
36	Atari Vault	6 players	beats 53%
37	Venba	17 players	beats 53%
38	Creeper World IXE	11 players	beats 53%
39	Trials of the Blood Dragon	3 players	beats 54%
40	American Theft 80s	5 players	beats 53%
41	PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo	7 players	beats 52%
42	Contraband Police	46 players	beats 51%
43	Narita Boy	7 players	beats 52%
44	Bahnsen Knights	3 players	beats 52%
45	Killer Frequency	31 players	beats 51%
46	Stay Out of the House	3 players	beats 51%
47	Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection	14 players	beats 50%
48	Super Woden: Rally Edge	4 players	beats 50%
49	Wrestling Empire	7 players	beats 50%
50	I am not a Monster: First Contact	6 players	beats 50%
51	American Fugitive	14 players	beats 50%
52	RAD	3 players	beats 50%
53	Auto Age: Standoff	3 players	beats 50%
54	Landlord's Super	15 players	beats 50%
55	STASIS	11 players	beats 50%
56	Shipwrecked 64	5 players	beats 50%
57	HUNTDOWN	11 players	beats 50%
58	Kaizen: A Factory Story	7 players	beats 50%
59	Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon	49 players	beats 50%
60	Crossing Souls	9 players	beats 50%
61	Sintopia	11 players	beats 50%
62	Wolfenstein: Youngblood	19 players	beats 48%
63	Dragon's Lair	3 players	beats 45%
64	Empire TV Tycoon	4 players	beats 44%
65	ARCADE GAME SERIES: GALAGA	4 players	beats 42%
66	Verlet Swing	8 players	beats 43%
67	Duck Season PC	4 players	beats 41%
68	The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed	7 players	beats 41%
69	Saturday Morning RPG	8 players	beats 41%
70	The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition	4 players	beats 38%
71	looK INside - Chapter 2	4 players	beats 38%
72	Murder House	3 players	beats 36%
73	Super Woden GP 2	3 players	beats 36%
74	Pinball FX	12 players	beats 39%
75	198X	6 players	beats 37%
76	Double Dragon: Neon	8 players	beats 38%
77	After the Fall®	6 players	beats 37%
78	Beat Cop	43 players	beats 40%
79	NEON STRUCT	4 players	beats 35%
80	UnMetal	9 players	beats 37%
81	Cleared Hot	3 players	beats 32%
82	John Carpenter's Toxic Commando	5 players	beats 31%
83	Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic	4 players	beats 29%
84	OutDrive	13 players	beats 34%
85	ARCADE GAME SERIES: DIG DUG	4 players	beats 28%
86	Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade™	3 players	beats 25%
87	Mega Man Legacy Collection	43 players	beats 34%
88	The friends of Ringo Ishikawa	3 players	beats 24%
89	Puppet Master: The Game	6 players	beats 29%
90	Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle	29 players	beats 32%
91	Double Dragon Trilogy	3 players	beats 22%
92	Frontline Crisis	4 players	beats 24%
93	Retro City Rampage™ DX	17 players	beats 30%
94	King's Quest™ Collection	4 players	beats 24%
95	Half-Life: Caged	5 players	beats 25%
96	Oniken: Unstoppable Edition	5 players	beats 25%
97	Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium	8 players	beats 27%
98	80's OVERDRIVE	3 players	beats 19%
99	COMPOUND	6 players	beats 25%
100	The Occupation	7 players	beats 26%
101	Slipstream	5 players	beats 23%
102	Buddy Simulator 1984	27 players	beats 29%
103	Paper Sorcerer	9 players	beats 26%
104	Not For Broadcast: Prologue	8 players	beats 25%
105	Retrowave	29 players	beats 29%
106	Bus Flipper: Renovator Simulator	7 players	beats 24%
107	Action Agents	4 players	beats 19%
108	Neon Drive	8 players	beats 24%
109	Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel	4 players	beats 19%
110	Video Horror Society	11 players	beats 25%
111	Gold Rush! Classic	9 players	beats 23%
112	DUSK '82: ULTIMATE EDITION	7 players	beats 21%
113	Vigor	9 players	beats 22%
114	Moonring	29 players	beats 25%
115	Razortron 2000	13 players	beats 23%
116	1982	6 players	beats 18%
117	Radical Heights	20 players	beats 24%
118	Capcom Arcade Stadium	48 players	beats 24%
119	Distant Space	25 players	beats 23%
120	RetroMaze	3 players	beats 7%

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