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Arcade games. Titles from this category require particularly good manual skills. Main purpose of the gameplay is to reach a specific point or defeat enemies while controlling a character or a vehicle. Arcade games usually don’t have any story or have it in a very simple form. This category contains e.g. popular platformers. more

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Jump Stars
Jump Stars

Arcade 09 June 2017

Jump Stars is a multiplayer party game for two to four players developed by a small independent studio Jamit Games. The game allows us to take part in a crazy TV game show where weird, square creatures compete against each other in various games for fame, money, and freedom. Their rules are rather simple. We will have to, for example, avoid lasers, spiked barrels, climb up on platforms in order to avoid lava, or fight against each other on a small arena.

Valfaris
Valfaris

Arcade 15 November 2019

Valfaris is a two-dimensional platform game by Steel Mantis team, known from Slain: Back From Hell, published by Digital Uppercut Productions. The production is a development of ideas from the previous work of the creators. Once again we get the climate inspired by heavy metal, but this time the authors have abandoned the fantasy reality for the sake of science fiction. Players play as a warrior who explores a star fortress full of monsters orbiting the dying sun.

Pinball FX3
Pinball FX3

Arcade 26 September 2017

A third installment in the Pinball FX series. In the game developed by Zen Studios, the player can try out new, themed pinball machines, as well as import most of the machines from Pinball FX2 and Zen Pinball 2. The game attempts to translate the real pinball experience into a video game setting.

A Hole New World
A Hole New World

Arcade 09 June 2017

A Hole New World is a 2D side-scrolling platform game inspired by productions from the golden age of NES console. The game has been developed by the Spanish developer Mad Gear Games and is a demanding old-school production without any tutorials or handicaps. The player is equipped with a single weapon and a simple set of moves, with which he has to handle the encountered dangers using only his creativity and agility.

TurnOn
TurnOn

Arcade 01 June 2016

An action-puzzle game inspired by the annual “Earth Hour” event organized by WWF foundation. The game was developed by the Russian studio Brainy. It shows how much the modern world depends on electricity. When an accident in the power plant causes the whole city to run out of electricity, the player assumes the role of the last “living” spark and is tasked with restoring the power and allowing the inhabitants of the city to function normally.

MagNets: Fully Loaded
MagNets: Fully Loaded

Arcade 11 March 2016

Developed by the industry veteran - Richard Weeks, MagNets is an arcade game in which the player is trying to contain an uprising of machines that has paralyzed Polarity City. One can do this by controlling Faraday - an android that uses an electromagnetic net to disable enemy robots and collect precious minerals from their scrapped bodies.

Steredenn
Steredenn

Arcade 01 April 2016

A side-scrolling shooter developed by the independent Pixelnest Studio. The player sits at the helm of a spaceship, their task is to eliminate subsequent waves of incoming enemies. We encounter both ordinary, numerous opponents that aren’t too difficult to defeat as well as more rare bosses that require devising a special tactic to beat them. In Steredenn, we are not defenseless and the ship we pilot can be equipped with 35 kinds of weapons and 25 enhancements that we unlock with progress.

JumpJet Rex
JumpJet Rex

Arcade 29 April 2016

JumpJet Rex is a 2D platform game developed by Canadian indie devs from TreeFortress Games. We play as a likeable dinosaur who uses newest technologies to save his species from doom. Gampley in JumpJet Rex is inspired by the classic platformers. We travel through forty different levels, filled with various traps and enemies that want to see Rex dead. Rocket boots are our primary item and means of transport.

In the Shadows
In the Shadows

Arcade canceled

A two-dimensional platformer with logic game elements and the debut project from the independent developer Colorspace Studio. In the Shadows has us assume the role of a person who embarks on an emotional journey to the times of childhood where they have to face their fears, symbolized by various monsters. The gameplay mechanics combine arcade elements with logic puzzles that use light as their primary element.

Raiden V
Raiden V

Arcade 25 February 2016

The fifth official installment in a series of classic, scrolling top-down shooters. Raiden V was created by MOSS - a Japanese developer in possession of the rights to the franchise since 2005. Similar to the previous installments, the plot presents a great war between humans and Cranassian - an alien civilization that has attacked the Earth. The player has to face the invaders, assuming the role of a pilot.

Gear Gauntlet
Gear Gauntlet

Arcade 15 April 2016

A dynamic action-arcade game developed by the debuting studio Drop Dead Interactive. Gear Gauntlet is a game with no plot per se, concentrating entirely on original gameplay mechanics in which the key role is played by the system of color change that resembles mechanics in music games, such as the Guitar Hero series.

Pang Adventures
Pang Adventures

Arcade 19 April 2016

Developed by DotEmu, an arcade game being another installment of the Pang series (also known as Buster Bros and Pomping World). The game presents adventures of two brothers who fight aliens invading the Earth. Gameplay comes down to destroying jumping balls that can attack the heroes and sometimes hide behind various obstacles. To eliminate the enemies you can use a wide arsenal of weapons, including machine guns, flamethrowers, lasers, shurikens, etc.

Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island
Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island

Arcade 19 May 2017

A colorful, classic 3D platformer. The action of Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island takes place on a group of tropical islands where a mad scientist has his base. He endeavors to create a weapon with which he could conquer the world. His most promising project – a humanoid cat named Skylar, equipped with cybernetic implants – rebels against her creator and escapes his laboratory. From that moment, Skylar's most important mission is to defeat the scientist.

Goat Simulator: Waste of Space
Goat Simulator: Waste of Space

Arcade 22 March 2017

Another DLC for the crazy action game Goat Simulator released in 2014 by Coffee Stain. The Waste of Space expansion adds a completely new map to the game. The map is larger than anything that Goat Simulator and its expansions offered up until now. The new level consists of a large space area and of an alien planet with a colony on its surface. Typically for the Goat Simulator, there is no story per se.

She Wants Me Dead
She Wants Me Dead

Arcade 09 December 2022

A humorous arcade game with features of platformer and rhythmic game from Swedish Hello There studio. She Wants Me Dead tells a story of Max, who irritated his cat Lula so much that it decided to get rid of him. The cat prepared many deadly traps for its master, which he must avoid in order to survive.

GunWorld 2
GunWorld 2

Arcade 12 May 2016

The sequel to the retro platformer game with RPG elements by m07games. The action of GunWorld 2 takes place on the eponymous planet where an intergalactic party of superheroes arrested its president for the good of the people. Assuming the role of the world’s best shooter, named Dwayne, we have to face our enemies and rescue the leader from their hands.

Skylanders Imaginators
Skylanders Imaginators

Arcade 14 October 2016

Another installment in the popular series of 3D platform games developed in cooperation between Activision and Toys for Bob. The series uses special toy figurines that are transferred to the virtual world of the game. The mechanics of Skylanders Imaginators are similar to the ones from the previous installments of the series. It is a typical action game focused on exploration, getting through obstacles, collecting items and fighting enemies while occasionally solving riddles.

Who's Your Daddy
Who's Your Daddy

Arcade 05 January 2022

A simulation game developed by independent developer Joe Williams backed by Kickstarter users. The game depicts the hardships of taking care of a baby.

Freedom Planet 2
Freedom Planet 2

Arcade 04 April 2024

A continuation of a two-dimensional platformer developed by GalaxyTrail. The plot tells a story of a dragon named Merga who begins to wreak havoc on the world after being awoken from a hundred-year-old slumber. The player assumes control of three powerful heroines that traverse the extensive two-dimensional levels and fight against various opponents in order to finally defeat the beast.

SpeedRunners
SpeedRunners

Arcade 31 May 2017

An unusual racing game with platform game elements, developed by independent Dutch studio DoubleDutch Games. SpeedRunners takes place in a fictional world filled with various superheroes. Since there are so many of them, there aren’t enough criminals for them to deal with. Because of that, the heroes are forced to compete with each other about who will reach the crime scene as first and be able to perform his duties.

TRON RUN/r
TRON RUN/r

Arcade 16 February 2016

A third-person arcade game developed by a Disney Interactive's proprietary studio. The game is based on the famous science-fiction movie franchise, TRON. The action takes place in a virtual world located within a computer system. The protagonist, Kevin Flynn, is a programmer and the main character of the original 1982 movie. The gameplay mechanics were inspired by a popular genre existing on mobile devices - games known as endless runners.

Organic Panic
Organic Panic

Arcade 01 April 2016

A dynamic, colorful 2.5D physics puzzle game. Created as a part-time production, this game by Last Limb was published thanks to the cooperation from GameMill and a successful Kickstarter campaign. Organic Panic introduces an unusual conflict between two strange fractions: a union of little vegetables and fruits vs. the evil empire of cheese and meat. The plot, presented in comic book aesthetics, tells a story of four "vegan" heroes trying to save their mentor.

Amazing Princess Sarah
Amazing Princess Sarah

Arcade 29 January 2016

Oldskulowy, two-dimensional platformer, referring to the first installments of the Castlevania series. In the game we play the role of the title princess Sarah, who sets out to help his father - King Kaleya, who was seduced and kidnapped by the insidious Lilith. She wants to take possession of the kingdom and kill the only rightful heir to the throne.

Knights and Bikes
Knights and Bikes

Arcade 05 November 2020

Knights and Bikes is a PC-based nostalgic action adventure game that takes us to a small British island in autumn 1987 and casts us as teenage girls trying to stop the ghostly invasion. The game is mainly about exploring and fighting, and in both of these aspects the use of bicycles plays a key role.