Arcade Video Games13
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.
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Bard's Gold
Arcade 14 August 2015
Developed by Pixel Lantern, an independent studio from Germany, a 2D platformer with roguelike elements. The player takes control of the titular bard whose gold is stolen by a sly goblin. In order to get the gold back, the bard sets off on a dangerous journey. Bard’s Gold features a side-view – there are over 100 levels filled to capacity with various dangerous traps and enemies.
Exile's End
Arcade 01 September 2015
A 2D action game inspired by the classic shooters for Commodore 64 and Amiga computers, such as Flashback or Another World. The hero of Exile’s End investigates a space colony to find out why it has lost contact with Earth. He soon finds out that his employers have been conducting some shady experiments. Gameplay wise, Exile’s End is a mix of platformer and action game. We explore the planet’s surface and fend off enemies with various weapons, with a boss waiting at the end of each level.
Best Fiends Forever
Arcade 20 October 2016
An arcade clicker game by Seriously Digital Entertainment, and the second installment in the series, which began with the logic puzzle game Best Fiends. When the Fiends reached the end of their journey in the previous game, they were defeated and trapped by the forces of evil. You have to release them, which means you have to traverse the land of Minutia, consisting of little islands and inhabited by hostile snails.
El Hijo: A Wild West Tale
Arcade 03 December 2020
A stealth game set in a spaghetti western setting, developed by Honig studio. It takes place in an alternative version of The Wild West, based on Sergio Leone’s movies. The protagonist – the titular El Hijo – looks for his missing father, traversing places filled with dangers: from an orphanage he was raised in, through a desert full of monster, and up to a town ruled by merciless gunslingers.
Tomba!
Arcade October 2024
Produced by Ukrainian studio Creoteam, a soccer game that combines elements of a virtual team manager with turn-based strategy. In the beginning of the game, you create your own club, and help it win the championship through a series of victories. Matches are played out in turn-based system, in which you give commands to your players, a formula quite unusual for this genre. In each turn you can execute up to 3 actions, and every action takes a number of movement points.
Subway Surfers
Arcade 22 May 2012
Colorful arcade game, belonging to the casual genre of endless runners. We play the role of graphic artists caught in the hot deed, who are forced to flee from a police inspector and his dog. During the game, we move around the roofs of wagons and railway tracks, avoiding any obstacles with the help of a special skateboard.
Spy Chameleon
Arcade 11 June 2014
An independent logic-arcade game with elements of a sneaking game. We play the role of the title chameleon agent, who performs successive secret missions, trying to avoid detection thanks to the ability to adapt to the color of the environment.
Deadbolt
Arcade 14 March 2016
An old-school two-dimensional platformer with elements of stealth. It was created by Hopoo Games, a studio known for Risk of Rain. In the game, the player becomes an embodiment of death itself, coming to Earth to stop an undead invasion. Both the sides of the conflict are a bit unusual, because the Grim Reaper uses knives and firearms instead of a scythe, and as for the undead, they are overly watchful and intelligent - they can even wield pistols and rifles.
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
Arcade 23 March 2006
Blazing Angels: The Squadron of WWII is a flight simulator with an outstanding dexterity. The player plays the role of a pilot, who carries out a number of missions during World War II, from the famous Battle of England, to the bombing of Berlin.
Sonic Unleashed
Arcade 18 November 2008
Sonic Unleashed is the next installment of a series of games about the adventures of the famous supersonic hedgehog. As usual, the plot tells the story that Dr. Eggman once again decided to destroy the world, and only Sonic can prevent it.
Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
Arcade 10 February 2009
The Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection is a collection of forty of the biggest hits known from the Mega Drive console, released by SEGA. All games have been remastered in terms of the capabilities of modern hardware platforms. The package includes titles such as Alien Storm, Bonanza Bros., E-SWAT, Golden Axe III, Shining Force and Sonic The Hedgehog.
Super Monkey Ball Adventure
Arcade 30 June 2006
Super Monkey Ball Adventure continues the popular Sega Stables cycle, launched in 2001 and present on a variety of hardware platforms. The platformer consists of several dozen stages, where we control the title monkey.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Arcade 14 November 2006
A lot of time has passed since the debut of the famous blue hedgehog in the world of video games. With the power of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Sonic the Hedgehog outperforms all previous platformers with this famous hero, both in terms of visuals and the possibilities it offers gamers.
Choplifter HD
Arcade 11 January 2012
An arcade machine in which we sit at the helicopter's helm and use this machine both to save people and to fight enemies. The game is a continuation of an 8-bit classic entitled Choplifter. The authors have remained faithful to the original and therefore our helicopter can only fly in two dimensions.
Dragon's Lair
Arcade 21 December 2009
Re-edition of the classic arcade game, which appeared in game rooms in 1983. Playing the role of knight Dirk, we set out to rescue the princess kidnapped by the dragon. The game is based entirely on the so-called quick time events and allows you to play with the Kinect motion controller.
Monsters vs. Aliens
Arcade 24 March 2009
Monsters versus aliens is an arcade game produced by Beenox studio, which is an adaptation of the popular animated film by DreamWorks. As in the cinema's prototype, the main character is Susan Murphy, who, together with other mutants, tries to stop the evil Gallaxhara and his alien army from destroying Earth.
World of Goo
Arcade 13 October 2008
World of Goo is a logic-arcade game produced and published by Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, a two-person development team from the 2D Boy studio. The game, designed exclusively for one player, consists in building various constructions of gelatinous slurry balls, i.e. the title Goo, which is permanently disturbed by gravity and other laws of physics. The title, characterized by specific visual setting and original situational humour, was considered one of the most original games of 2008.
Disney Tangled: The Video Game
Arcade 19 November 2010
Arcade game based on Disney's animated film. We travel through the fairy-tale land in the body of a young princess or a brave prince, trying to banish a bad witch.
Snoopy vs The Red Baron
Arcade 24 October 2006
Snoopy vs. The Red Baron is a skillfulness book based on the famous series of short picture stories (the so-called comic strips, published in the press) by Charles M. Schulz. This draughtsman created subsequent episodes of the Peanuts cycle (Fistasques) almost exactly for fifty years - from the middle of the 20th century until his death in 2000.
The Polar Express
Arcade 01 November 2004
The Polar Express is an action/adventure game based entirely on an animated film published in November 2004 under the same title. Directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Return to the Future", "Forrest Gump") tells the story of a boy who loses faith in the existence of Santa Claus.
Battlezone (2008)
Arcade 31 October 2006
Battlezone is a remake of a classic action game from 1980, which was produced by Atari. 26 years after that event, the same company decided to move futuristic tank skirmishes to the PlayStation Portale platform. This time, however, another studio, Paradigm Entertainment, is responsible for the production of the program.
KAO the Kangaroo: Round 2
Arcade 04 November 2003
A continuation of a three-dimensional platformer developed by the Polish studio Tate Multimedia (previously known as X-Ray Interactive). Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 returns to the titular hero, who once again embarks on a demanding journey all around the world to save hundreds of animals that have been abducted by an evil poacher and his band of thugs. The game sees us travel through 20 varied levels in five different worlds filled with difficult obstacles as well as numerous vehicles and objects.
Heavy Weapon: Atomic Tank!
Arcade 24 February 2005
Two-dimensional arcade game in which we steer a small but heavily armed tank. The action takes place in 1984, and in our opinion the Soviet invasion is repulsed. The game is about shooting down as many enemy units as possible.