>> 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%

50 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	11 players	beats 78%
03	Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number	186 players	beats 73%
04	Gunner, HEAT, PC!	6 players	beats 79%
05	Formula Legends	3 players	beats 84%
06	Yakuza 0 Director's Cut	9 players	beats 75%
07	Hotline Miami	322 players	beats 70%
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	MOLE	4 players	beats 75%
12	Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit	16 players	beats 68%
13	Police Quest™ Collection	3 players	beats 76%
14	I am not a Monster: First Contact	5 players	beats 72%
15	Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection	3 players	beats 75%
16	Super Woden: Rally Edge	3 players	beats 75%
17	Wizardry Variants Daphne	3 players	beats 72%
18	FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse	3 players	beats 70%
19	UFO 50	25 players	beats 62%
20	DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake	4 players	beats 66%
21	Creeper World IXE	8 players	beats 63%
22	Wrestling Empire	6 players	beats 63%
23	Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration	3 players	beats 65%
24	Mixtape	10 players	beats 61%
25	Atari Vault	4 players	beats 63%
26	Empire TV Tycoon	3 players	beats 63%
27	DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake	8 players	beats 60%
28	Lake	12 players	beats 58%
29	Maximum Action	6 players	beats 58%
30	Not For Broadcast	41 players	beats 56%
31	Crossing Souls	8 players	beats 57%
32	Amenti	3 players	beats 59%
33	Karate Survivor	8 players	beats 55%
34	Tiny Rogues	41 players	beats 54%
35	Stories Untold	19 players	beats 53%
36	Venba	15 players	beats 53%
37	Punch Club 2: Fast Forward	11 players	beats 53%
38	American Theft 80s	5 players	beats 53%
39	STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator	5 players	beats 52%
40	Cyber Hook	28 players	beats 52%
41	Super Woden GP 2	3 players	beats 52%
42	Bahnsen Knights	3 players	beats 52%
43	PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo	6 players	beats 51%
44	Stay Out of the House	3 players	beats 51%
45	Narita Boy	6 players	beats 51%
46	Killer Frequency	26 players	beats 50%
47	Contraband Police	36 players	beats 50%
48	STASIS	9 players	beats 50%
49	The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition	3 players	beats 50%
50	Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection	13 players	beats 50%
51	American Fugitive	13 players	beats 50%
52	RAD	3 players	beats 50%
53	Kaizen: A Factory Story	6 players	beats 50%
54	WASTED	11 players	beats 50%
55	Auto Age: Standoff	3 players	beats 50%
56	Shipwrecked 64	5 players	beats 50%
57	Saturday Morning RPG	7 players	beats 50%
58	HUNTDOWN	11 players	beats 50%
59	Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon	41 players	beats 50%
60	Wolfenstein: Youngblood	15 players	beats 48%
61	Dragon's Lair	3 players	beats 45%
62	Pinball FX	11 players	beats 44%
63	UnMetal	8 players	beats 44%
64	ARCADE GAME SERIES: GALAGA	4 players	beats 41%
65	Sintopia	10 players	beats 41%
66	The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed	6 players	beats 40%
67	Murder House	3 players	beats 36%
68	Double Dragon: Neon	6 players	beats 38%
69	Paper Sorcerer	8 players	beats 38%
70	198X	6 players	beats 37%
71	After the Fall®	6 players	beats 37%
72	Verlet Swing	7 players	beats 36%
73	Landlord's Super	12 players	beats 38%
74	Beat Cop	39 players	beats 37%
75	Puppet Master: The Game	5 players	beats 33%
76	Duck Season PC	3 players	beats 29%
77	John Carpenter's Toxic Commando	5 players	beats 31%
78	Action Agents	3 players	beats 27%
79	Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic	4 players	beats 29%
80	ARCADE GAME SERIES: DIG DUG	4 players	beats 28%
81	King's Quest™ Collection	3 players	beats 25%
82	Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade™	3 players	beats 25%
83	OutDrive	10 players	beats 32%
84	The friends of Ringo Ishikawa	3 players	beats 24%
85	Half-Life: Caged	4 players	beats 25%
86	Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle	24 players	beats 32%
87	Frontline Crisis	4 players	beats 24%
88	The Occupation	5 players	beats 26%
89	Bus Flipper: Renovator Simulator	5 players	beats 25%
90	Oniken: Unstoppable Edition	5 players	beats 25%
91	Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium	8 players	beats 27%
92	80's OVERDRIVE	3 players	beats 19%
93	COMPOUND	6 players	beats 25%
94	Not For Broadcast: Prologue	7 players	beats 26%
95	Mega Man Legacy Collection	40 players	beats 30%
96	Buddy Simulator 1984	23 players	beats 28%
97	Retro City Rampage™ DX	16 players	beats 28%
98	Neon Drive	7 players	beats 24%
99	Video Horror Society	11 players	beats 25%
100	1982	5 players	beats 19%
101	DUSK '82: ULTIMATE EDITION	7 players	beats 21%
102	Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel	3 players	beats 13%
103	Retrowave	25 players	beats 25%
104	Moonring	25 players	beats 25%
105	Radical Heights	19 players	beats 24%
106	Razortron 2000	13 players	beats 23%
107	Distant Space	24 players	beats 24%
108	Capcom Arcade Stadium	47 players	beats 25%
109	Vigor	8 players	beats 19%
110	RetroMaze	3 players	beats 7%
111	Gold Rush! Classic	8 players	beats 17%

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