>> best Old School games on steam the full ranking

These are the best Old School games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Old School 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 Old School fans genuinely keep coming back to.

Endacopia

beats 84%

5 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	Pseudoregalia	60 players	beats 75%
03	Suzerain	38 players	beats 75%
04	White Knuckle	31 players	beats 75%
05	Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft	25 players	beats 75%
06	Cave Story+	31 players	beats 75%
07	Blood™ Fresh Supply	17 players	beats 75%
08	MOUSE: P.I. For Hire	23 players	beats 75%
09	Crow Country	17 players	beats 75%
10	Moldwasher	11 players	beats 76%
11	Fallen Aces	12 players	beats 76%
12	Final Fantasy III (3D Remake)	12 players	beats 75%
13	Selaco	11 players	beats 75%
14	Nightmare Reaper	10 players	beats 75%
15	Freedom Fighters	9 players	beats 75%
16	Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter	7 players	beats 75%
17	Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation (1999)	7 players	beats 75%
18	Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition	56 players	beats 70%
19	The Citadel	6 players	beats 75%
20	Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition	3 players	beats 82%
21	HROT	17 players	beats 71%
22	Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove	55 players	beats 69%
23	Wizardry 8	5 players	beats 75%
24	Bionic Commando: Rearmed	5 players	beats 75%
25	Post Trauma	5 players	beats 74%
26	Cult of PiN	4 players	beats 76%
27	STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster	5 players	beats 74%
28	Forbidden Solitaire	6 players	beats 72%
29	Arcade Paradise	12 players	beats 69%
30	Legend of Grimrock 2	21 players	beats 67%
31	Wolfenstein: The New Order	125 players	beats 66%
32	Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition	5 players	beats 71%
33	Dungeons & Dragons: Krynn Series	3 players	beats 75%
34	Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection	3 players	beats 75%
35	DUSK	71 players	beats 66%
36	Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem	3 players	beats 75%
37	Quake	40 players	beats 66%
38	Level Devil	3 players	beats 74%
39	Ragnarock	5 players	beats 70%
40	Dungeon Keeper™ 2	3 players	beats 73%
41	THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake	4 players	beats 70%
42	The Eyes of Ara	3 players	beats 71%
43	EverSiege: Untold Ages	5 players	beats 67%
44	Maximum Action	5 players	beats 66%
45	UnderRail	19 players	beats 63%
46	Loop Hero	102 players	beats 62%
47	FlyKnight	27 players	beats 62%
48	Freedom Planet 2	3 players	beats 68%
49	UnMetal	6 players	beats 64%
50	DOOM II	28 players	beats 60%
51	Ragnarok Online	4 players	beats 64%
52	Alisa	4 players	beats 64%
53	The Sims™ Legacy Collection	6 players	beats 61%
54	Desktop Survivors 98	8 players	beats 60%
55	Ion Fury	19 players	beats 57%
56	Parking Garage Rally Circuit	4 players	beats 59%
57	Serious Sam Classics: Revolution	15 players	beats 56%
58	Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders	7 players	beats 56%
59	Lunistice	7 players	beats 55%
60	Hand of Doom	3 players	beats 56%
61	AMID EVIL	33 players	beats 53%
62	DOOM + DOOM II	94 players	beats 53%
63	Sonic CD	19 players	beats 53%
64	Curses 'N Chaos	3 players	beats 54%
65	Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise	4 players	beats 53%
66	Vampires Dawn 3 - The Crimson Realm	3 players	beats 53%
67	Corn Kidz 64	5 players	beats 53%
68	Hotshot Racing	18 players	beats 52%
69	Full Throttle Remastered	12 players	beats 52%
70	Scritchy Scratchy	106 players	beats 51%
71	Super Woden GP 2	3 players	beats 52%
72	DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake	7 players	beats 51%
73	Cats and the Other Lives	3 players	beats 51%
74	Munchkin Digital	6 players	beats 51%
75	PowerSlave Exhumed	3 players	beats 51%
76	Bloodshed	5 players	beats 51%
77	Intergalactic Fishing	5 players	beats 51%
78	CULTIC	7 players	beats 51%
79	Ziggurat 2	7 players	beats 51%
80	Cavern of Dreams	7 players	beats 51%
81	PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+	21 players	beats 51%
82	INCISION	5 players	beats 51%
83	FATE	8 players	beats 51%
84	Chop Goblins	10 players	beats 51%
85	The Bard's Tale Trilogy	3 players	beats 51%
86	NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager	5 players	beats 51%
87	Syder Arcade	9 players	beats 50%
88	STASIS	9 players	beats 50%
89	Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun	64 players	beats 50%
90	Shadow Warrior	111 players	beats 50%
91	Friends vs Friends	48 players	beats 50%
92	Final DOOM	14 players	beats 50%
93	Legend of Grimrock	34 players	beats 50%
94	Eternium	3 players	beats 50%
95	Hellbound	5 players	beats 50%
96	Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition	10 players	beats 50%
97	Counter-Strike	189 players	beats 50%
98	Hitman 2: Silent Assassin	43 players	beats 50%
99	X-COM: UFO Defense	16 players	beats 50%
100	Commandos 2: Men of Courage	13 players	beats 50%
101	Purple Place - Classic Games	7 players	beats 50%
102	Avernum 3: Ruined World	7 players	beats 50%
103	Blood Typers	5 players	beats 50%
104	Antonball Deluxe	3 players	beats 50%
105	Garbanzo Quest	3 players	beats 50%
106	World of Goo 2	3 players	beats 50%
107	Neighbours back From Hell	18 players	beats 50%
108	Epic Battle Fantasy Collection	4 players	beats 50%
109	Quake II	25 players	beats 50%
110	Devil Spire	6 players	beats 50%
111	Tinytopia	5 players	beats 50%
112	Talisman: Digital 5th Edition	3 players	beats 49%
113	Project Warlock	30 players	beats 50%
114	Ball laB	3 players	beats 49%
115	Neighbours from Hell Compilation	12 players	beats 49%
116	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold	8 players	beats 48%
117	PAPERHEAD EP.0	15 players	beats 48%
118	Pegfinity	4 players	beats 45%
119	Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One	4 players	beats 45%
120	Alien Hominid HD	6 players	beats 45%
121	EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE	6 players	beats 44%
122	STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)	22 players	beats 45%
123	Warspear Online	4 players	beats 43%
124	Eterspire	6 players	beats 43%
125	Evitania Online - Idle RPG	8 players	beats 43%
126	Firework	3 players	beats 39%
127	Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer	4 players	beats 40%
128	Tomb Raider II (1997)	12 players	beats 42%
129	SPRAWL	12 players	beats 42%
130	Soldat	8 players	beats 41%
131	Idol Showdown	52 players	beats 42%
132	Old School RuneScape	63 players	beats 42%
133	Lone Fungus	5 players	beats 39%
134	Moventure	3 players	beats 36%
135	Avadon: The Black Fortress	4 players	beats 38%
136	Paper Sorcerer	4 players	beats 37%
137	Murder House	3 players	beats 36%
138	Wrack	4 players	beats 37%
139	Hexen: Beyond Heretic	6 players	beats 38%
140	Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™	6 players	beats 38%
141	Isles of Sea and Sky	3 players	beats 34%
142	Panzer Paladin	6 players	beats 37%
143	Little Big Adventure	3 players	beats 33%
144	Breath of Death VII	8 players	beats 37%
145	Chicken Invaders Universe	25 players	beats 39%
146	EverQuest	10 players	beats 38%
147	Koi-Koi Japan [Hanafuda playing cards]	4 players	beats 34%
148	Spear of Destiny	3 players	beats 32%
149	Monument	3 players	beats 32%
150	Tomb Raider III (1998)	9 players	beats 37%
151	WRATH: Aeon of Ruin	5 players	beats 35%
152	Amanda the Adventurer	19 players	beats 38%
153	Sand:box	3 players	beats 31%
154	Unreal Gold	22 players	beats 37%
155	Golden Light	28 players	beats 36%
156	Tomb Raider I (1996)	16 players	beats 35%
157	Best Plumber	3 players	beats 26%
158	8BitBoy™	8 players	beats 32%
159	Vampire Hunters	11 players	beats 33%
160	King's Quest™ Collection	3 players	beats 25%
161	Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic	3 players	beats 25%
162	Auto Snakes in Outer Space	3 players	beats 25%
163	Rebel Galaxy Outlaw	3 players	beats 25%
164	Rambo The Video Game + Baker Team DLC	3 players	beats 25%
165	Might & Magic X - Legacy	4 players	beats 28%
166	Dread Templar	9 players	beats 32%
167	X-COM: Terror From the Deep	3 players	beats 25%
168	Outshine	3 players	beats 24%
169	Streets of Fury EX	6 players	beats 28%
170	Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter	15 players	beats 31%
171	Doodle God: 8-bit Mania - Collector's Item	4 players	beats 25%
172	Serious Sam 3: BFE	57 players	beats 33%
173	Commander Keen	4 players	beats 24%
174	War for the Overworld	22 players	beats 31%
175	Death Trash	5 players	beats 25%
176	Oniken: Unstoppable Edition	5 players	beats 25%
177	Morsels	5 players	beats 25%
178	NecroWorm	5 players	beats 25%
179	Shadow Warrior Classic Redux	27 players	beats 31%
180	Shadow Warrior Classic (1997)	10 players	beats 28%
181	Turok	5 players	beats 25%
182	Avernum: Escape From the Pit	5 players	beats 24%
183	Oozi: Earth Adventure	3 players	beats 19%
184	Flowstone Saga	3 players	beats 19%
185	Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter	42 players	beats 31%
186	Fury Unleashed	21 players	beats 29%
187	Wizorb	5 players	beats 23%
188	Kaze and the Wild Masks	7 players	beats 25%
189	Low Magic Age	5 players	beats 22%
190	Idle Iktah	8 players	beats 25%
191	Hard Reset Extended Edition	13 players	beats 27%
192	Mutant Mudds Deluxe	4 players	beats 20%
193	Idle Pixel Fantasy	9 players	beats 25%
194	Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010)	9 players	beats 25%
195	Super Bernie World	4 players	beats 19%
196	QUICKERFLAK	9 players	beats 25%
197	Rise of the Triad	10 players	beats 25%
198	BROKE PROTOCOL	8 players	beats 24%
199	Volgarr the Viking	11 players	beats 25%
200	WAVESHAPER	5 players	beats 20%
201	Z	4 players	beats 18%
202	Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now	4 players	beats 18%
203	Habbo Hotel: Origins	3 players	beats 14%
204	Strife: Veteran Edition	7 players	beats 22%
205	Knights and Merchants	24 players	beats 26%
206	Idle Slayer	66 players	beats 27%
207	Wolfenstein 3D	18 players	beats 25%
208	Hero's Hour	19 players	beats 25%
209	Incremental Adventures	21 players	beats 25%
210	Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet	4 players	beats 16%
211	Moonring	24 players	beats 25%
212	Idle Skilling	37 players	beats 25%
213	Caliber	16 players	beats 24%
214	Deathmatch Classic	29 players	beats 25%
215	RIFT	41 players	beats 25%
216	Quake Live	42 players	beats 25%
217	You Have to Win the Game	39 players	beats 25%
218	SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics	137 players	beats 25%
219	Half-Life 2: Deathmatch	178 players	beats 25%
220	Team Fortress Classic	79 players	beats 25%
221	Ricochet	45 players	beats 23%
222	Villagers and Heroes	9 players	beats 12%
223	Litil Divil	6 players	beats 5%

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