Classic games are, well, classic. These games each evoke a much-loved and now defunct title (or three) from the past, putting a modern-day spin on them for even more fun.

This sequel to the arcade puzzler Boulder Dash finds our hero Rockford digging through deviously designed caverns to grab gems, destroy monsters and avoid being crushed by falling rocks. Deluxe includes every level from the 1984 original plus nearly 200 modern ones – along with new visuals, opponents and power-ups.

Borrowing heavily from a swath of retro classics, Hoggy 2 features a purple Kirby-esque hero blob jumping into Tardis-like bottles. You’ll find plenty of fruit to munch, fiends to defeat and puzzles to solve. Toss in tight level design and a gravity-flipping jump mechanic to get a tasty sampler of old-school puzzle platforming.

Poor Leo. Someone has pilfered his stash of gold coins and left a tantalising trail of bling littering deadly pathways. Yes, Leo’s Fortune is a traditional scrolling platformer, but in this one your precision jumping will guide a gruff hairball through lush environments, hopefully surviving simple puzzles and dizzying loops along the way.

With its dot-munching antics and angry-looking monsters in hot pursuit, EVAC resembles a neon-infused Pac-Man. But EVAC offers a unique take on the dot-eating genre by adding a few twists to its 32 handcrafted levels: door switches, hiding places for stealth-like shenanigans, block-sliding puzzles and power-ups for giving your foes a taste of their own medicine.

Back in the day, Marble Madness had its spheroid hero blaze through sleek isometric levels. EDGE offers a similarly giddy mix of speed-run challenges and dexterity tests, but the game’s straight-edged protagonist (literally – it’s a cube) faces a much greater array of traps and challenges within 92 minimalist landscapes.

Can’t decide which era of gaming was your favourite? Evoland 2 covers them all. It begins as the spitting image of a Game Boy role-playing game. But before long you’re immersed in an adventure that swerves into shoot-’em-up, match-3 and even side-on-brawler territory.