Worth it for the right player.
At $9.99. It has been as low as $5.99.
- Story and characters: 191 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 84 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 74 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 2k player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
it's like all your favorite game in one place...if you stripped them down to 2 buttons also remove 99% of their content and fun. 198x is a story about a gamer in the 80's full of teenage angst in a story that goes nowhere. there's this girl he saw, they hint as family issues, then this odd thing happened at the arcade some may call it a glitch/easter egg or was it?
banger soundtrack, story, art, atmosphere and characters
I'm going to divide this review into 3 segments; Gameplay, Story, and Graphics because all three have their own positives and negatives.
Holy moly, the pixel art style of this game is amazing to say the least.
• Controller support; some of the arcade games are actually easier with a controller versus m/k
Steam Deck: Fully Playable
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 4 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $5.99.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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