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Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

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Roguelight
The deeper you travel the darker it gets, and you only have your arrows to light the way.
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
Sonic 3D in 2D
A 2D reimagining of Sonic 3D Blast
Sotaknuck
Platformer
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
A roguelike dungeon crawler RPG that's simple to get into but hard to master!
Shattered Pixel
Role Playing
Lorn's Lure
$14.99
An android is led through a vast structure by a glitch in his visual system
Rubeki
Action
Saving Princess
"IF THEY GET PRINCESS, THE WAR IS LOST."
BRAINOS
Adventure
GIF
Kalikan
$5
Dip, dodge, duck, dive, and ... die
LouieChapm
Action
Play in browser
EDGY
Shoot, slice, and break some necks in this hard-hitting FPS.
fphund
Action
GIF
satryn
a chaotic, infinite twin stick shooty ✨
maybell🌻
Action
GIF
cognizance
live life as a cog
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Adventure
GET OUT of this Dungeon
Locked in a dungeon. Find the gems to GET OUT. 8bit Metroidvania
Insanus
Platformer
Play in browser
LOVE
$2.99
An accessible platformer with a focus on a fair challenge.
Fred Wood
Platformer
Peaks of Yore DEMO
A first-person physics-based 'climb-em-up' adventure set in 1887. Demo.
andosdev
Adventure
Lightforce Ninja
Use a grapple hook of light!
Undead Cartridge
Platformer
LRO - Luggage Retrieval Officer
Expertly retrieve important luggage that has found it's way onto the wrong flight.
Jono Shields
Puzzle
Play in browser
Rocket Bytes
A precision rocket flying reverse platformer
PossiblyAxolotl
Platformer
Edelweiss
Use a grappling hook to reach the summit of the mountain, avoiding obstacles and collecting edelweiss
genialbuilder
Platformer
Play in browser
Riko
Hardcore Handcrafted Puzzle Game
Spyr
Puzzle
Play in browser
RETROKILL // an ULTRAKILL Demake // VER 1.01
ULTRAKILL with a dimension cut off
Pedroleum
Platformer
Annalynn
$5
A new platformer for the arcades of the '80s!
Cruise Elroy
Platformer
Foreverred
The biggest Celeste Classic mod ever released.
petthepetra
Platformer
Play in browser
Switch 'N' Shoot
$3.99
👾 An arcade shoot-em-up played entirely with a single button.
Matt Glanville
Action
GIF
Exit84
Just a frustrating PLATFORMER TYPING game
probe_31
Platformer
Play in browser
GIF
Tyrant's Realm: Origins
Teamtyrant
Action
Sweet Hell
Sweet Hell is a short tough-as-nails MSX-inspired boss rush game
Donitz
Platformer
Play in browser
Fire & Fondness 2
A puzzle game featuring romance, explosions, and daytime television.
JohnGabrielUK
Puzzle
Play in browser
Super Win the Game
$7.99
A retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!
J. Kyle Pittman
Platformer
GIF
Grow,Seed!Pinball
Ludum Dare 34 Compo - Pinball GB era inspired
kNARF
Action
Play in browser
RITE
$4.99
A high-speed pixel art platformer
PondGames
Platformer
The Demon of Sakura Pass
$2
Touge racing game for mobile and desktop!
BRAINOS
Racing
Lavi Quest
​Play as Lavi the cat on her quest to knock precious objects from high places!
ScottLewis
Platformer
GIF
PERISHER
climb a mountain and push some blocks
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
Play in browser
PAPU
jugá PAPU. Un cortito juego de terror inspirado en Bananirou.
Squarp
Survival
GIF
Super Potato Bruh
$3.99
a bullet hell platformer
DaFluffyPotato
Platformer
PewPew Live
Fast-paced twin joystick shooter.
jfgeyelin@gmail.com
Action
Play in browser
GIF
Ungrateful Birds: No Good Deed
$0
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The birds must be saved! But alas, they will not be grateful.
John D. Moore
Platformer
GIF
Arena of the Mad King
Rise to victory in this tough-as-nails bullet hell boss rush arena. Touhou meets Realm of the Mad God.
naniloit
Action
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