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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.

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Does not Commute
Does not Commute

Arcade 23 April 2015

A mobile arcade logic puzzle game by Mediocre. In Does Not Commute you play as ordinary people driving around the city for various reasons and your task is to lead the cars from the starting points to their final destinations. You observe the gameplay from the point of view of a camera located above a fragment of the city, and the gampelay itself is not difficult, focusing on turning left or right so that you don't crash into your surroundings or other cars.

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Tomba!
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.

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Pandemonium 2
Pandemonium 2

Arcade 22 September 1997

Pandemonium 2 is a continuation of the popular platformer from 1996. The plot of the game is based on the mystery of the "comet of unlimited possibilities", flying over the land of Lyr once in 300 years. Known in the first installment, Nikii and Fergus have to face a bad queen who wants to use the comet for their evil purposes.

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Pang Adventures
Pang Adventures

Arcade 18 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.

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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.

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Crashing Season
Crashing Season

Arcade 25 May 2016

A crazed arcade game created for mobile devices. It was developed by Koukoi Games - a Finnish gamemaking studio. The story begins when ruthless hunters destroy a treasury belonging to the animals. In return, the little critters of nature have decided to take revenge. Retaliation turns out to be an exceptionally easy task, which encourages the animals to try and take over the entire world. In terms of mechanics, the game is an unusual auto-runner.

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

Arcade 26 May 2016

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.

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She Wants Me Dead
She Wants Me Dead

Arcade 12 May 2016

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.

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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.

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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.

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Lewandowski: Euro Star 2016
Lewandowski: Euro Star 2016

Arcade 31 May 2016

A mobile football arcade game, featuring the captain of the Poland national football team – Robert Lewandowski. The game was developed by Polish Fuero Games, mostly known for The Witcher: Battle Arena. Lewandowski: Euro Star 2016 does not simulate whole matches, but concentrates on bouncing the ball in such a way, so that it stays in the air and does not touch the pitch.

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Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

Arcade 18 April 2017

A remake of the classic 8-bit platform game Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap, originally released in 1989, developed by Lizardcube. You play as the eponymous hero, who has to kill a dragon lurking in a cave. Unfortunately, by fulfilling his task he brings upon himself a mysterious curse, which transforms him into a humanoid lizard, and his new objective is to get rid of the spell.

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Shadow Bug
Shadow Bug

Arcade 04 April 2016

A mobile platform game from an independent Finish studio Muro, which evolved from a simple but successful project initiated by a few Alto University students. In Shadow Bug, we assume the role of a militant worm armed with two swords. The protagonist's job is to clear the forest of the hostile bugs and other opponents. During the gameplay, we traverse successive levels, in which we meet a whole bunch of different enemies and a large number of traps, which often require some cleverness.

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Square Heroes
Square Heroes

Arcade 09 April 2015

Square Heroes is an arcade game developed by the creators of Square Off. Cross-platform multiplayer is the game's main focus. We play as genetically modified creatures whose only goal is to kill and destroy. They were created to save mankind, but now they fight against characters similar to themselves in the Galactic Hero's Tournament. Gameplay is not that dynamic, which makes lags less troublesome. The game has rather simple rules to follow.

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10 Second Ninja X
10 Second Ninja X

Arcade 19 July 2016

A dynamic action platform game in which the player, as the titular ninja warrior, faces an army of robots. 10 Second Ninja X is an improved version of 10 Second Ninja, a game that was released in 2014 on personal computers. Both titles were developed by independent studio Four Circle Interactive. On each level the player is tasked with eliminating robots scattered across the map as fast as possible – by using either katana or firearms.

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INKS.
INKS.

Arcade 05 May 2016

A mobile action game which combines pinball and painting in an rather interesting way. This unorthodox idea was created in the London-based studio State of Play. Similarly as in case of a typical pinball, in Inks the player bounces a ball by using flippers placed at the bottom of the screen. However, instead of an impressive pinball table, in this game the screen shows only a simple background with lightly drawn contour.

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No Thing
No Thing

Arcade 07 April 2016

A surrealistic arcade game from the Polish Evil Indie Games studio, set in an alternate version of the year 1994. It shows a grim, retrofuturistic vision of future, as imagined in the 70’s. In the age of a totalitarian regime that tries to break all opposition, we play as an ordinary clerk, who is given the task of delivering a message to someone known as the Ice Queen.

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Piloteer
Piloteer

Arcade 25 June 2015

An arcade game by Fixpoint Productions. You play as an inventor, who succeeded in building a jetpack. Before he shares his invention with the world, however, he needs to test it. The gameplay of Piloteer is set in various locations, and it focuses on increasingly complex challenges.

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Smash Hit
Smash Hit

Arcade 06 March 2014

Smash Hit is an arcade game in which we explore the surreal world and destroy the glass objects appearing on our way with metal balls. The production is characterized by advanced physics, refined graphics and realistic sound effects of broken glass.

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Amazing Princess Sarah
Amazing Princess Sarah

Arcade 10 July 2014

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.

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Knights and Bikes
Knights and Bikes

Arcade 27 August 2019

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.

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MOP: Operation Cleanup
MOP: Operation Cleanup

Arcade 09 February 2016

A classic two-dimensional platformer by Mexican studio EnsenaSoft. The action takes place in the unspecified future in which Earth has fallen into ruin, covered with garbage. After the collapse of human civilization, new life forms emerged and, having underwent numerous mutations, eventually turned into hostile creatures. Designed to dispose of not only garbage but also mutants, the eponymous robot, called MOP, is here to save the day.

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Blade Ballet
Blade Ballet

Arcade 09 August 2016

An arcade game developed by the debuting DreamMail Games studio, designed mainly for playing in multiplayer mode for up to 4 people. Action of Blade Ballet takes place in the distant future where humanity went extinct, and the planet is inhabited by mechanical automatons. After completing their predefined life cycle machines are to fight for survival in a deadly competition, aimed at waste reprocessing and identification of the strongest units.

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Hyperide
Hyperide

Arcade 03 February 2016

A space arcade game from the endless runner genre, developed by Kool2Play. At first sight, Hyperide resembles classic space shooters that were once popular in the arcades. We control a small space ship that keeps flying upwards through levels filled with enemies and dangers. However, the gameplay strays from other similar games with one important feature: our ship doesn’t have any weapons mounted, meaning that our only choice is to avoid collisions with incoming objects.

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