Games like California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
If California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) is your kind of game, the closest matches are Street Sports Baseball, The Endless Summer Surfing Challenge and GT Racing 1980 — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis): Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
Players who liked California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) also play
Steam players who put hours into California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Street Sports Baseball
WHY THIS
Top pick for California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
In this unique baseball game from 1987, assemble a team of kids from a small neighbourhood and play ball with nothing but tires and flattened boxes for bases and a trash can lid for home plate.
The Endless Summer Surfing Challenge
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Two player surfing simulation with contests. For an open world surfing adventure with many upgrades see SURFERS CODE with a free demo and release coming soon. Complete the 12 challenge rounds. Compete in timed and scored contests with two players surfing at the same time.
GT Racing 1980
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Take a journey back to the 80's and race some of the greatest cars ever made, in a retro arcade style racing experience. Race against some of the most iconic racers, build rivalries and unlock special rewards.
HardBall! + HardBall II
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
In HardBall, experience baseball that’s so real and true-to-life, it’s like you can reach out and touch it. HardBall II retains the all-star qualities of the original, but with more features, more choices, playability and true-to-ballplayer animation, and even more major league ballparks.
Riders Republic
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Jump into a massive multiplayer playground! Bike, ski, snowboard, or wingsuit across an open world sports paradise where the rules are yours to make or break.
Counter-Strike
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) at current Steam store prices.
Superflight
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) on Steam right now. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Mount Your Friends
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) on Steam right now. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Experience the extreme simulated sporting sensation that's sweeping our digital nation! Mount Your Friends is a fiercely competitive sporting event for you to play with your friends in the contextual security of your own home, assuming that your home is not composed of sexual innuendo.
Wild Animal Racing
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) on Steam right now. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Wild Animal Racing is an exciting go-kart simulation game with a twist. Play as an elephant, a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, a rhino or a hippo! Play against the other animals or against a friend on the same PC with the split-screen mode! Or invite Steam friends in the multiplayer mode!
Sledding Game
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) on Steam right now. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
A game about sledding and hanging out with friends :)
Golf With Your Friends
WHY THIS
Priced ~76% under California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) on Steam right now. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Why have friends if not to play Golf... With Your Friends! Nothing is out of bounds as you take on courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players!
SpeedRunners
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) on Steam right now. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) on Steam right now. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Compete across land, water and air in incredible transforming vehicles that change from cars to boats to planes mid-race.
Pro Soccer Online
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) on Steam right now. Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Pro Soccer Online is a 1st/3rd person, highly skill based, online multiplayer soccer game. It offers a sports game experience unlike any other with smooth, physics based, input driven gameplay that is competitive and rewarding with no pay to win mechanics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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More from Epyx, Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by Epyx, Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Rogue
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
Impossible Mission II
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Sequel to the equally-popular Impossible Mission, this classic 1980s action platformer sees you tasked with infiltrating a futuristic fortress, built to keep safe malicious mastermind Elvin Atombender. Now available on Steam for the first time, responsibility for saving the world rests with YOU!
California Games II
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis). Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Originally launched in 1990 on the boundary-pushing 16-bit computers and consoles of the day, this bodacious sequel to the immensely popular California Games sees you competing in five awesome events: hang-gliding, jet-skiing, snowboarding, body-boarding and skateboarding!
Temple of Apshai Trilogy
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
In this classic dungeon crawler, hack and slash your way through over 500 rooms with dozens of terrifying monsters. A true 1980s fantasy game, experience the frustrations and triumphs of the tabletop gaming inspired combat. Temple of Apshai is waiting. Silently lurking. Patiently waiting. For you.
The Games: Winter Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis). Shares Sports with California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Compete in seven Winter Games events in this DOS classic from 1988, created by masters of sports simulation Epyx. Hurtle down the slopes, over jumps, or across the ice, all in search of that elusive Gold medal.
Battle Bugs
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
In this unconventional real-time strategy game, control a fearsome army of stink bugs, cockroaches, lightning bugs, ants and more in a miniature, pun-filled warzone! 56 battles with 22 types of Battle Bug await you!
Jumpman (C64/MSDOS)
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Run, climb and jump from platform to platform to collect and disarm deadly bombs, but watch out! One single misstep will send you tumbling to the ground! With 30 different challenging levels to beat, experience the thrills and spills of one of the earliest platformers.
Snow Strike
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis).
Fly your F14-LBC "Rapier" on a series of air bound missions. Your task – to destroy the labs, bomb refineries, and stop the enemy convoys. But watch out for those enemies who are armed with heat and radar guided missiles!
Frequently asked about California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
- How much does California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) cost?
- California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) are Street Sports Baseball, The Endless Summer Surfing Challenge, GT Racing 1980.
- Who developed California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)?
- California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis) was developed by Epyx, Inc. and published by Pixel Games UK.
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