Vaporwave: The Definitive Video Games
5 min readApr 25, 2021
The vaporwave experience is interactive as well as audio-visual. Many games have been claimed by the vaporwave dynasty as influential relics and a few have even been borne directly from it. From the violent tendencies of Hotline Miami (2012) to the relaxing ambience of Islands: Non-Places (2016), the aesthetic has dripped into video game designs across the board. Whilst some of the influences fall more clearly into the realms of synthwave, or retrowave, the aesthetics can certainly be appreciated by those of the vaporous style of wave.
