Demakes

Remakes of modern games in the style of legacy systems. Usually fangames, but occasionally official. Some of them actually playable on legacy systems.

Please let me know of more!

Some demakes not listed on Backloggd:
- Retro Raider [Tomb Raider as an Atari game]
- Bit of War [8-bit God of War]
- Limbo C64 [Commodore 64 demake of Limbo]
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Pocket Horror [Game Boy Color demake]
- Skyrim Mobile [demake/reinterpretation for TI-84 calculator (!!)]
- Super 3D Portals 6 [Portal as an Atari game]
- Portal, for the C64
- ASCIIpOrtal
- Pixel Force: DJ Hero
- Shredz64 [Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64]
- Modern Warfare 2D
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2D [2D version of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)]
- Grand Theftendo [Grand Theft Auto III as an NES game - prototype only]
- Shen Qi De Mao Zi [Famicom backport of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap as a turn-based RPG]
- Ocarina of Time 2D [at least 3 different versions of this – 2 abandoned at the demo stage, 1 in progress]
- Ocarina of Time: GB [Game Boy Color - demo only]
- Fableous [8-bit Fable demake]
- Bethesda's official (!) demake of Fallout 3 as a JRPG [in Japanese - no ENG translation available that I can find]
- World of Warcraft: The Molten Core [Atari 2600 demake based on an April Fool's joke from Blizzard]
- Chrono Trigger NES demake [Chinese bootleg]
- Final Fantasy X NES demake [prototype only]
- Donkey Kong Country NES demake
- Super Mario World NES demake [Chinese bootleg]
- Bloodborne PSX [work in progress]
- Princess Rescue [Super Mario Bros for Atari 2600]
- Resident Evil Demake [as an NES action RPG]
- Bio Hazard [Resident Evil as an NES game - Chinese bootleg]
- Mega Man 2600 [Atari - demo only]
- Mega Man 2: Atari De-Make
- Ultimate Mortal Combat 3 Game Boy Color port
- Touhou Reiiden ~ Highly Responsive to Prayers NES Demake
- Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland NES Demake
- Castlevania Atari demake [hack of Roc 'N Rope]
- UFO: Enemy Unknown and UFO 2: Devils of Abyss ZX Spectrum demakes
- Curse of Monkey Island Classic Edition [demo only]
- King's Quest V: The Text Adventure
- Pax-Txt [PacMan as a text adventure]
- J. Robinson's Wheeler's Centipede [text adventure]
- The Stanly Parable LD Demix [text adventure]

(I may go through and add links to these at some point, but a lot of them are hard to find, as the original hosting sites are no longer online)

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PicoHot
[semi-?]official
Metroid Dread GBC Demake
Metroid Dread GBC Demake
CS2D
CS2D
Team Fortress 2 Arcade
Team Fortress 2 Arcade
Mirror's Edge 2D
Mirror's Edge 2D
Dusk '82
Dusk '82
An Hei Po Huai Shen: Diablo
An Hei Po Huai Shen: Diablo
Super Smash Land
Super Smash Land
Soundless Mountain II
Soundless Mountain II
Devolver Bootleg
Devolver Bootleg
official
Bloodborne PSX
Bloodborne PSX
Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead
Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead
Super Mario 63
Super Mario 63
Rockman 8 FC
Rockman 8 FC
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII
Chinese bootleg (using FF1 as its base); modders from Romhacking.net have also created a revamped version of this demake, bringing it closer to the original PS1 game
Lucius Demake
Lucius Demake
Zippy the Porcupine
Zippy the Porcupine
Super Sanctum TD
Super Sanctum TD
Halo 2600
Halo 2600
Half-Life 2 Classic
Half-Life 2 Classic
Gang Garrison 2
Gang Garrison 2
Portal: The Flash Version
Portal: The Flash Version
Rock Boshers DX
Rock Boshers DX
originally a demake of Red Faction for ZX Spectrum, before being developed into an original game
A Hat on Time
A Hat on Time
Rockman 7 FC
Rockman 7 FC
D-Pad Hero 2
D-Pad Hero 2
Disco Elysium: Game Boy Edition
Disco Elysium: Game Boy Edition
demo / proof of concept only (short portion of start of game)
Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot
Pixel Force: Halo
Pixel Force: Halo
The Border Lands
The Border Lands
official
Doom 2D
Doom 2D
Yarntown
Yarntown
Fuz
Fuz
Halo Zero
Halo Zero

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