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Top Cult Classic Games

60+ cult classic games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Adventure, Classic, Great Soundtrack.

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  1. #1 The Curse of Monkey Island
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,000 reviews2018
    Developer: LucasArts
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.2hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 59%

    The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?

  2. #2 Impossible Creatures Steam Edition
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,810 reviews2015
    Developer: Relic EntertainmentPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 6.4h≥1hr: 57%

    Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.

  3. #3 Between Me and The Night
    77% matchMostly Positive76% of 833 reviews2016
    Developer: RainDance LX
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.6hMean: 23.6h≥1hr: 96%

    ‘Between Me and The Night' is a surrealist action adventure game that walks the thin path between sanity and madness. Take on the role of a young boy and explore and interact with the mysterious house in which he lives.

  4. #4 We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,572 reviews2023
    Developer: MONKEYCRAFT Co. Ltd.Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.4hMean: 6.3h≥1hr: 77%

    The second title in the Katamari Damacy series has returned in a remastered, powered-up version! This new REROLL comes with improved graphics and gameplay enhancements. In Royal Reverie, roll up katamari as the King of All Cosmos in his boyhood!

  5. #5 Sam & Max Hit the Road
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,029 reviews2018
    Developer: Lucasfilm
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.0hMean: 3.3h≥1hr: 50%

    Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.

  6. #6 Freedom Fighters
    72% matchVery Positive94% of 2,724 reviews2020
    Developer: IO Interactive A/S
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.2hMean: 5.9h≥1hr: 54%

    Freedom Fighters is an intense third-person action game set in an alternate history New York during the invasion of a foreign superpower. Take on the role of Chris Stone, a hard-working plumber, and rise through the ranks of the resistance to prove yourself as a charismatic leader.

  7. #7 Metal Wolf Chaos XD
    72% matchVery Positive84% of 884 reviews2019
    Developer: General ArcadePublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.2hMean: 4.8h≥1hr: 68%

    Metal Wolf Chaos XD is a modernized re-release of FromSoftware's 2004 mech shooter with upgraded visual fidelity, refined controls and gameplay, a new save system, and 4K + 16:9 support for modern displays.

  8. #8 Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner
    71% matchVery Positive93% of 108 reviews2017
    Developer: Casual Brothers Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows

    Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner. Originally released in 2004 was the best adventures of the year in different countries, and won many awards. Fenimore Fillmore is back now on Steam on amazing remastered version.

  9. #9 Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
    68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,497 reviews2017
    Developer: 07th ExpansionPublisher: MangaGamer
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 17.1hMean: 50.3h≥1hr: 86%

    This is the 2nd half of the Umineko When They Cry sound novel series, featuring episodes 5 through 8. This steam version features multi-language options, swap-able renewed character sprites, as well as the original BGMs and un-cut content.

  10. #10 Shadowgate
    70% matchVery Positive87% of 710 reviews2014
    Developer: Zojoi
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.1hMean: 4.1h≥1hr: 89%

    Thrust into the role of "The Seed of Prophecy," players travel deep into the living castle, in hopes of defeating the evil that dwells within – the dreaded Warlock Lord.

  11. #11 Voodoo Vince: Remastered
    68% matchVery Positive92% of 571 reviews2017
    Developer: Beep Games, Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 80%

    The classic character platformer is back after 13 years and newly remastered! Help Vince run, jump and fight his way through cemeteries, swamps and an evil carnival as he seeks to save his creator Madam Charmaine from the clutches of Kosmo The Inscrutable.

  12. #12 Lumino City
    69% matchVery Positive87% of 1,382 reviews2014
    Developer: State of Play
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 42mMean: 4.9h≥1hr: 45%

    The BAFTA award winning handmade puzzle adventure game made entirely by hand. Explore the city and use your ingenuity to piece together puzzling mechanisms and bring back power to this unique world. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.

  13. #13 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
    68% matchVery Positive88% of 147 reviews2018
    Developer: Lucasfilm GamesPublisher: Lucasfilm
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Space Aliens have built a stupidity machine that's slowly reducing everyone's IQ to single digits. Worse yet, the only person who can stop them is Zak McKracken, reporter for the disreputable National Inquisitor, who dreams up stories about carnivorous cantaloupes and vegetarian vampires.

  14. #14 Lost Planet® 2
    70% matchMixed66% of 3,049 reviews2010
    Developer: CAPCOM CO., LTD.Publisher: Capcom
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.2hMean: 10.7h≥1hr: 65%

    Lost Planet 2, the sequel to Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition, the landmark third-person shooter that sold over 2.3 million units worldwide, is now available on Steam!

  15. #15 Battle Mages
    69% matchMostly Positive77% of 224 reviews2014
    Developer: Targem GamesPublisher: ESDigital Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 4.8h≥1hr: 91%

    There is a world which needs your defense. You are the young mage that has just graduated the mages school and you must pass through several hard tests to become a decent defender.

  16. #16 Battlezone 98 Redux
    66% matchVery Positive91% of 1,129 reviews2016
    Developer: Big Boat InteractivePublisher: Rebellion
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.5hMean: 8.0h≥1hr: 80%

    One of the greatest sci-fi strategy games of all time returns with remastered visuals, online multiplayer and near unlimited mod content from Steam Workshop. Experience thrilling first person action and acclaimed RTS in this explosive alternate vision of the 1960s space race.

  17. #17 SiN Gold
    63% matchMostly Positive79% of 474 reviews2020
    Developer: Ritual EntertainmentPublisher: Nightdive Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 24mMean: 3.7h≥1hr: 36%

    SiN: Gold has returned! Free update for original owners!

  18. #18 Second Sight
    62% matchVery Positive82% of 310 reviews2021
    Developer: Free Radical DesignPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 42mMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 45%

    Combining an atmospheric, psychological thriller narrative with paranormal psychic abilities, stealthy exploration and intense shooter action, Second Sight brings a new dimension to stealth action games, giving players control of a character endowed with incredible psychic abilities.

  19. #19 CROSS†CHANNEL: Steam Edition
    62% matchVery Positive90% of 438 reviews2018
    Developer: MoeNovel
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.1hMean: 20.4h≥1hr: 52%

    "This is the Gunjo Broadcasting Club. Is there anyone left out there?” CROSS†CHANNEL is now available to the whole world for the first time ever. Eight students relive an eternally looping week as tensions rise. Can they mend their broken friendships, or are they too far gone to salvage...?

  20. #20 Quest for Glory 1-5
    60% matchVery Positive95% of 494 reviews2016
    Developer: SierraPublisher: Activision
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 9.4h≥1hr: 44%

    The world of Gloriana, with all its wonderful diversity, awaits you.

  21. #21 Alone in the Dark 1
    60% matchVery Positive92% of 441 reviews2016
    Developer: InfogramesPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows

    Alone in the Dark: Classic Collection brings the seminal survival horror masterpieces of the 90's to your PC today.

  22. #22 Phantasmagoria
    61% matchVery Positive87% of 527 reviews2016
    Developer: SierraPublisher: Activision
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 6.4h≥1hr: 41%

    Master storyteller Roberta Williams challenges you to experience the ultimate interactive nightmare.

  23. #23 Locoland
    62% matchVery Positive80% of 187 reviews2015
    Developer: GromadaPublisher: ESDigital Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 91%

    Colorful crazy world of a fantastic planet. Bizarre plants, strange landscapes! Under these unusual conditions there arose steam-robots civilization. But there’s no peace there - robots are at war.

  24. #24 A New Beginning - Final Cut
    61% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,122 reviews2012
    Developer: Daedalic Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.8hMean: 6.7h≥1hr: 57%

    A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.

  25. #25 愛神餐館MAX
    59% matchVery Positive91% of 53 reviews2020
    Developer: Firedog Creative Company Limited
    Platforms: Windows

    Love, restaurant, and RPG adventure all in one, the origin of the "Cupid Bistro!!" series is here! As the main protagonist Rato Coriander, you need to run a bistro as part of your final year assignment. In one year's time, you are the one to decide all different endings with 13 beautiful girls!

  26. #26 The Next BIG Thing
    60% matchVery Positive84% of 708 reviews2011
    Developer: Pendulo StudiosPublisher: Focus Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.6hMean: 4.0h≥1hr: 55%

    The Next Big Thing is a great adventure game in high definition, loaded with laughs, tributes, mysteries and wacky puzzles!

  27. #27 Submarine Titans
    57% matchVery Positive87% of 355 reviews2020
    Developer: Ellipse StudiosPublisher: Strategy First
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 41%

    Submarine Titans is a real-time strategy video game that takes place in the year 2115 after a comet has struck Earth, driving two human factions, the militant White Sharks and the scientific Black Octopi, to establish underwater bases and fight for dominance over the oceans.

  28. #28 D: The Game
    59% matchVery Positive88% of 155 reviews2016
    Developer: WARPPublisher: Nightdive Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.5hMean: 3.1h≥1hr: 84%

    Los Angeles, 1997. There has been a mass murder at a general hospital on the outskirts of downtown. Richter Harris has shut himself up in the hospital and taken hostages, leaving the police helpless and unable to move in.

  29. #29 Wasteland Remastered
    59% matchMostly Positive70% of 295 reviews2020
    Developer: inXile Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.7hMean: 6.8h≥1hr: 63%

    The RPG classic rises from the nuclear ashes! Wasteland Remastered is an overhaul of the 1988 title that brought the post-apocalypse to video games. See where the Wasteland series began and experience the character and world the sequels are built on.

  30. #30 Simon the Sorcerer - Mucusade: 25th Anniversary Edition
    60% matchMostly Positive70% of 81 reviews2018
    Developer: MojoTouch
    Platforms: Windows

    Just when he thought his life was regaining some semblance of normality, Simon's wonder years are once again turned upside down when the evil sorcerer Sordid returns from the grave with only one thing on his mind - revenge!

  31. #31 Fenimore Fillmore: 3 Skulls of the Toltecs
    58% matchVery Positive86% of 102 reviews2019
    Developer: Casual Brothers Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows

    3 Skulls of the Toltecs was one of the last classic point & click adventure release in 1996, now you can play it again in this wonderful remastered version with enhanced graphics up to 4k.

  32. #32 Collapse
    59% matchMostly Positive72% of 974 reviews2014
    Developer: CreoteamPublisher: ESDigital Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.5hMean: 3.8h≥1hr: 85%

    In 2013 the Central Europe (Ukraine, Kiev) witnessed a catastrophe. Everybody was mystified by its cause. What happened was beyond our comprehension. Somebody called it the collision of worlds or the stratification of two dimensions.

  33. #33 Deus Ex Machina, Game of the Year, 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
    59% matchPositive83% of 47 reviews2016
    Developer: Potassium Frog Limited
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Back by popular demand, the legendary video game and first ever interactive movie, starring Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who), Ian Dury (the Godfather of Punk), and Frankie Howerd (comic genius). Hailed as a breakthrough in the development of video games, Deus Ex Machina won Game Of The Year, and is currently the subject of movies, books,...

  34. #34 Dusk 12
    62% matchMixed48% of 237 reviews2014
    Developer: Orion GamesPublisher: ESDigital Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 3.7h≥1hr: 81%

    Dusk 12 is a first person shooter, full of action where the player will incarnate two heroes. One of the soldiers of the group, with unknown past and one of the infected men with the virus, who has strength, speed and fortitude beyond human limits.

  35. #35 Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition
    58% matchVery Positive85% of 198 reviews2017
    Developer: Screaming Villains
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 4.1h≥1hr: 48%

    Night Trap tells the story of five teenage girls spending the weekend at the Martin home. As a member of the Special Control Attack Team, your job is to monitor the home and protect the girls using an intricate system of cameras and traps as it is being invaded by vampires.

  36. #36 The Stalin Subway
    60% matchMixed61% of 727 reviews2014
    Developer: Orion GamesPublisher: ESDigital Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.1hMean: 9.4h≥1hr: 89%

    "The Stalin Subway" is a First Person Shooter-style game where the events take place in post-war Moscow. The game allows to plunge into the depressing atmosphere of the Stalin's period and to play as a Soviet officer.

  37. #37 Backyard Baseball '97
    50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,118 reviews2024
    Developer: Mega Cat StudiosPublisher: Playground Productions
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.9hMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 62%

    Rediscover the joy of the original Backyard Baseball 1997, now updated for modern systems! Build your roster from among the iconic Backyard Kids, aim for those home runs, and various game modes. Relive the magic of this classic baseball game!

  38. #38 Legend of Kay Anniversary
    59% matchMixed69% of 351 reviews2015
    Developer: KAIKOPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.0hMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 89%

    10 years after its initial release, Legend of Kay - Anniversary is a thoroughly remastered version of the original game: high-resolution textures; new, more detailed character models; modern rendering techniques and crystal-clear surround sound give this great classic a new shine.

  39. #39 Pharaoh + Cleopatra
    54% matchVery Positive92% of 2,554 reviews2016
    Developer: Impressions GamesPublisher: Activision
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.5hMean: 18.4h≥1hr: 55%

    Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom.

  40. #40 Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
    57% matchVery Positive82% of 230 reviews2016
    Developer: SierraPublisher: Activision
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.5hMean: 12.0h≥1hr: 55%

    All Curtis wants is to live a normal, happy life, but something seems to have other plans...

  41. #41 de Blob
    56% matchVery Positive88% of 421 reviews2017
    Developer: Blue Tongue EntertainmentPublisher: THQ Nordic
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 4.8h≥1hr: 51%

    The evil I.N.K.T. Corporation has declared 'Color is a Crime!' and leeched Chroma City of all its beauty and interest. The race to rescue Chroma City has just begun, and only de Blob can save the world from a black-and-white future with his unique abilities to color the world back to life.

  42. #42 EMERGENCY 2
    56% matchVery Positive86% of 78 reviews2018
    Developer: Sixteen Tons Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows

    Save Lives! When disaster strikes it all comes down to you! Take command of firefighters, doctors and more in this EMERGENCY Classics re-release of EMERGENCY 2. Now playable on modern operating systems!

  43. #43 Armikrog
    59% matchMixed59% of 1,623 reviews2015
    Developer: Pencil Test StudiosPublisher: Versus Evil
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.1hMean: 3.0h≥1hr: 61%

    Armikrog is a unique stop motion clay animated point and click adventure game from the creators of Earthworm Jim and the Neverhood. Unravel the mysteries of the fortress that holds Tommynaut and his blind alien talking dog Beak-Beak captive through exploration and puzzle solving!

  44. #44 Iridion II
    56% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2020
    Developer: Shin'en MultimediaPublisher: Majesco Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows

    The Iridions are back! Planet Earth is too far away to offer help. The only chance? A lone powerful spaceship...Yours!

  45. #45 Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
    55% matchVery Positive96% of 166 reviews2014
    Developer: Access SoftwarePublisher: Nightdive Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 42mMean: 5.9h≥1hr: 46%

    Enter the virtual world of Under A Killing Moon, where it is December 2042, and you, as Tex Murphy, must stop the forces of evil before they destroy mankind and rob you of your next unemployment check. This thrilling and hilarious adventure is unlike anything you've seen before.

  46. #46 STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster
    50% matchVery Positive90% of 1,547 reviews2024
    Developer: Nightdive Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.6hMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 60%

    The evil Empire is currently creating a doomsday army behind a veil of secrecy. However, they are no match for the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division. Your mission is to infiltrate the Empire and put an end to their plans for terror and domination.

  47. #47 MegaRace 2
    56% matchPositive81% of 47 reviews2017
    Developer: Cryo InteractivePublisher: Microids
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 0mMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 22%

    MegaRace 2 is the sequel to 1994's combat racing smash hit and is once again developed by Cryo Interactive. The sequel included several upgrades such as fully rendered 3D cars, new weapons, and track shortcuts.

  48. #48 Alien Hominid HD
    50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 593 reviews2023
    Developer: The Behemoth
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 2.0h≥1hr: 49%

    The 2D side-scrolling shooter from The Behemoth is back! With your mighty blaster and a group of mysterious kids by your side, destroy the agency and reclaim your spaceship!

  49. #49 Codename: Panzers - Cold War
    58% matchMixed67% of 283 reviews2009
    Developer: InnoGlow
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 48mMean: 6.8h≥1hr: 48%

    Tempelhof, Berlin, dawn of 8th April 1949.A major armed conflict is brewing between the Western powers and the Soviet bloc. The Red Army has been growing ever stronger since the end of World War II. With the growth of their army the Soviets realize that they hold the advantage, and are only waiting for the right moment to attack.

  50. #50 Beyond Good & Evil - 20th Anniversary Edition
    50% matchVery Positive82% of 1,393 reviews2024
    Developer: Ubisoft
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.6hMean: 9.2h≥1hr: 70%

    Embark on this epic adventure in up to 4K 60 fps with improved graphics and audio, a new speedrun mode, updated achievements, and an exclusive anniversary gallery.

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