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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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Featuring gameplay that moves horizontally across a scrolling background, with characters typically walking, running, or jumping from left to right. Often includes platforming elements and side-view perspectives.

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Terra - A Terraria Demake
A demake of Terraria, in PICO-8!
cubee
Action
Play in browser
The Fallen Crown - GameBoy Color
A brand new metroidvania for the GameBoy Color!
AtavistGames
Adventure
Play in browser
Prototype N
A side-scroller shooting platformer! Starring Nadine, the prototype android!
Arrietty
Platformer
Mega Man AGAIN
An old adventure... with new features!
SlingshotMage
Platformer
RETROKILL // an ULTRAKILL Demake // VER 1.01
ULTRAKILL with a dimension cut off
Pedroleum
Platformer
Elden Ring GB
What if Elden Ring released in 1993? Runs on real retro hardware!
shin
Adventure
Play in browser
Digimon: Digital Heroes
Help Agumon rescue his friends and memories in this platformer Digimon fan-game!
sette fan-games
Platformer
Super Mario Maker 4 Advance
"Here we go! Super Mario!"
TomAndTheCats
Action
Play in browser
Ghosts'n Demons
Side-scrolling platforming game
BonusJZ
Platformer
Hydraulic Bandits
A Side-Scrolling, Mech-Building Action platformer.
Nerys
Platformer
GIF
Anubis And The Buried Bone DEMO 2
Authentic retro adventure platformer!
harmarist
Platformer
GIF
XYDONIA / ザイドニア
Action-packed Japanese-inspired retro SHMUP
Breaking Bytes
Shooter
Shelled Shinobi
Parkour platforming as a shinobi tortoise
magu
Platformer
Play in browser
Sonic Maker Online
A Classic Sonic level building game
Aurora_Digital_
Platformer
Play in browser
GIF
VHS vs BETAMAX
Decide which is the superior format in this Vaporwave inspired 4 player fighting game!
adamgryu
Platformer
MW ULTRA (C64)
$10.99
Story based C64 action adventure - Metal Warrior re-amped.
Protovision
Adventure
Below The Ocean
$5.99
Explore the ocean floor for treasure!
Ismael Rodriguez
Platformer
Play in browser
Juan Lumbreras y familia
Mata a toda tu familia.
Renato Meyer
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Toziuha Night: Dracula's Revenge
$4.99
2D Classicvania side-scroller action platformer retro.
Danny Garay
Platformer
Snow Force (C64)
$3.99
An Xmas SHMUP for the C64
SarahJaneAvory
Shooter
Super Doggo WOW WAN
Cute dogs save the world.
uta_vit999
Action
Play in browser
GIF
Tiny Crate
$19.99
Crate Chucking Action Puzzler (=
HHoney Software
Platformer
Super Mario: All-Star Attack!
Take The All-Star Back From Bowser!
Stellar Synthesizer
Adventure
GIF
Dragon Bros Demo
2D Pixel art run and gun
spacelizardstudio
Shooter
GIF
MangoMan
Action-Platformer about a man who is also a mango.
Joseph Gribbin
Platformer
GIF
Bob&Dob
Relaxing fishing adventure.
Richard Lems
Play in browser
Fohh
Explore a mysterious world with a mysterious magical companion!
Ismael Rodriguez
Adventure
Play in browser
Papilio
$4.99
Take the fight to the skies in this fantasy 2D shootemup!
Cool Old Guy Games
Shooter
Open Surge: Play & Create
A fun 2D retro platformer inspired by Sonic games and a game creation system that lets you unleash your creativity!
alemart
Platformer
GIF
Scrolling Survivor
Epic autoscrolling difficult platformer ! Can you survive the scrolling?
Zoglu
Platformer
KING OF MACHINES
Face judgement.
CURSED BOOTLEG INC
Action
GIF
Clash Force
$4.99
A retro, 8-bit style run-and-gun inspired by Saturday morning cartoons of the 80s!
Shiny Dolphin Games LLC
Shooter
GIF
Ducky's Delivery Service
$9.99
Propeller-powered duck delivery action!
C.T. Matthews
Action
Chronicles of two Heroes
Chronicles of 2 Hereoes: Amaterasu’s Wrath is a 2D action platforming game with metroidvania elements.
Infinity Experience
Action
Soul Force (C64)
$8.99
A side scrolling 2D C64 space shooter
Protovision
Shooter
Sheepwith
Who's afraid of the pink bad wolf?
Iiro Lindell
Action
Play in browser
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