Arcade Video Games35
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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MonsterBag
Arcade 07 April 2015
A game which combines elements of platform, logic, and action games. In MonsterBag you play as a small monster named V, who is trying to find his missing female friend in a world full of humans and hostile beasts. Throughout the adventure you have to beat a dozen or so unique levels filled with different kinds of danger, the greatest of which are humans. However, at the same time they serve the role of “platforms”, which you must use to reach new regions.
Countryballs: The Polandball Game
Arcade 02 April 2015
A humorous endless runner arcade game inspired by the popular Internet meme and a series of political comics starring ball caricatures representing various countries. Countryballs: The Polandball Game not only recreates many jokes from the source material, but also features seventeen new comics made especially for the game. You play as your chosen ball.
Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions
Arcade 26 March 2015
Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions is a mobile and browser platform game based on the Star Wars Rebels animated TV series. The game takes place between the third and fourth episode of the movie saga. While the evil Empire hunts down what was left from the Jedi order, a Rebelion starts to grow. Gameplay in Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions combines elements of platform games and economic strategies.
Dot Arcade
Arcade 26 March 2015
Dot Arcade is a set of games (Mr. Snake, Dodge Club, and Rally Driver) for Wii U. All of them use the same mechanics - moving the bright dots. In Mr. Snake we take control of a giant galactic snake and try to eat as many dots symbolizing fruit as possible. We have to watch out for the obstacles that pop up every now and then. They also appear in the second game we will find in Dot Arcade. In Dodge Club, we play as a dancer who has to avoid blundering into dancing couples.
Silly Sausage in Meat Land
Arcade 25 March 2015
Silly Sausage in Meat Land is a mobile 2D platformer developed by Nitrome where we play as a stretchy dachshund. The game focuses on the incredible adventures of the dog, taking place in an unusual, meaty world that turns out to be a butcher's nightmare. We will face many dangers there: from caltrops, through sharp butcher knifes, all the way to mincing machines. During our adventures we will have to collect not only meaty snacks, but also green gems that unlock new areas of the map.
Boulder Dash: 30th Anniversary
Arcade 20 March 2015
A special anniversary edition released to honor the 30th anniversary of the Boulder Dash series. As always, we begin the game by choosing a hero, including the series’ longstanding cast such as Rockford or Crystal. The heroes are tasked with exploring extensive cave systems to gather diamonds which are guarded by monsters and falling stones.
Mr Jump
Arcade 19 March 2015
An inconspicuous but quite difficult 2D mobile arcade game by 1Button. Mechanics-wise, Mr Jump is an endless runner platformer. The protagonist constantly runs forwards and your task is to jump from platform to platform (the longer you hold the button, the higher the jump). Your goal is to reach the end of a level, which is made more difficult by various dangers, such as precipices and traps.
Spelunker Z
Arcade 19 March 2015
Spelunker Z is a free-to-play 2D platform game developed by Tozai Games. It is a part of the Spelunker game series that began in 1983. We play as a brave adventurer who explores dangerous dungeons in order to find valuable treasures. We will have to be cautious and agile during our adventures. The locations we explore are filled with traps and, from time to time, we will have to face a powerful boss. Luckily for us, our hero is not completely defenseless.
Fruit Ninja Kinect 2
Arcade 18 March 2015
Another installment in the Fruit Ninja series and a sequel to the 2011 Xbox 360 Kinect game. The production, developed by Halfbrick Studios, was released for the next generation of Microsoft consoles and utilizes the much more advanced Kinect 2.0. The mechanics, however, remained unchanged. The gameplay consists of cutting through the fruits appearing on screen by using the right moves, which are transferred via Kinect to your TV screen.
Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries
Arcade 17 March 2015
Developed by the independent studio GRIN from Belgium, an adventure/platformer inspired by the fairy tale of the big bad wolf and Red Riding Hood. The plot of Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries takes place in a fantastic, steampunk world on the brink of an industrial revolution. The heroine is a 14-year-old girl who, having experienced her father’s death, decides to take revenge on B.B. Woolfe – the CEO of the company responsible for her family’s misfortunes.
Jamestown+
Arcade 17 March 2015
A refreshed version of Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony, a side-scroller taking place in an unusual setting. We are taken to an alternative version of 17th century, in which the Spanish, British, and Martian forces clash in a fight for the right to colonize Mars. The player assumes control over a small vessel that is tasked with the elimination of hordes of enemies that appear along the way.
Candlelight
Arcade 15 March 2015
A classic 2D platform game by debuting indie studio Pixel Maverick Games. Candlelight is set in a world, which suffered a disaster that ended up in extinguishing all the candles, and the increasing darkness can only be dispersed by the last of them still burning. You play as the wax protagonist, whose task is to restore the flames in the whole realm.
Ego Protocol
Arcade 13 March 2015
Ego Protocol is a logic/arcade game developed by the Polish studio Static Dreams. The game won The Jam competition organized by the 1ndieWorld website, where competitors had to create a game in the spirit of the classic Polish platformer Electro Body. In Ego Protocol we have to manipulate the game's environment in order for our hero to reach his destination and avoid all sorts of dangers that await him.
Angry Birds Stella POP!
Arcade 12 March 2015
A hybrid of an arcade and logic game, set in the universe of the bestselling game, Angry Birds. The story revolves around the eponymous Stella, whose magic wand, capable of firing bubbles, was stolen by the bad piggies. As a consequence, all islands inhabited by the angry birds were flooded with bubbles, and the player’s task is to clear subsequent locations of the colorful bubbles and to defeat the mischievous pigs. In Angry Birds Stella POP!
50 Pinch Barrage!!
Arcade 12 March 2015
50 Pinch Barrage!! is a unique 2D platform game developed by Mobile & Game Studio Inc. for Nintendo 3DS handheld consoles. The game tells the story of an adventurer who, as a result of an accident, ends up on a mysterious island. While exploring it, he will have to finish fifty difficult levels filled with various traps and obstacles like chasms, trapdoors, or blades that slide up from the ground. He will also encounter hostile natives and aggressive creatures that will try to hunt him down.
Mario Party 10
Arcade 12 March 2015
Mario Party 10 is another installment of the popular arcade game series from Nintendo and the first to be released on Wii U. As usual, Mario Party 10 comprises various minigames. The game focuses on multiplayer matches for up to five players. One of them plays as the game's antagonist, the evil Bowser. The remaining players stand against him and their goal is to avoid traps and various surprises prepared by the leader of Koopas who tries his best to get rid of the unwelcome guests.
Flame Over
Arcade 10 March 2015
An arcade game with roguelike elements, developed by Laughing Jackal. You play as Blaze Carruthers, a fireman from London, whose task is to take care of the fire in a skyscraper. To achieve that, he has to go up sixteen floors and eliminate the threat with a fire extinguisher and a fire-axe. The levels are randomly generated, which makes every gameplay a unique experience.
RAD Boarding
Arcade 05 March 2015
RAD Boarding is a mobile endless runner game developed by Other Ocean Interactive. We take the role of a snowboarder who runs away from a stream of lava. In terms od mechanics, RAD Boarding resembles many other endless runner games. To achieve victory, we have to precisely control our hero in order to allow him to get the highest rebound force and speed possible.
OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood
Arcade 03 March 2015
Developed by Roll7 studio, OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood is a continuation of a 2D retro platform game, which has been published in 2014 for the most popular consoles on the market. In the game, an amiable skater known from the previous installment visits entirely new places that, this time around, are associated with the movie industry.
Paparazzi
Arcade 27 February 2015
Paparazzi is a humorous indie 2D arcade game funded on Kickstarter. A rivalry between a famous celebrity and a snappish paparazzo is the main theme of the game that takes place in a fictional city of Follywood. In terms of mechanics, Paparazzi is a typical cat-and-mouse game where our reflexes and concentration matter the most. Gameplay focuses on rivalry of two players in local multiplayer mode.
Blackhole: Complete Edition
Arcade 27 February 2015
A 2D platformer which is the first major project of an independent Czech studio FiolaSoft. The player assumes the role of a crew-member aboard a spaceship named Endera. The craft crashes on an object known as Entity, which is located inside a black hole. The protagonist's goals are to fix the damage caused by the collision, save crew-mates, and destroy the black hole from within, as it poses a threat to the planet Earth.
Magic Touch: Wizard for Hire
Arcade 25 February 2015
A humorous arcade game by indie studio Nitrome and a remake of the flash game of the same name. You play as a wizard, whose task is to defend a castle from airborne invaders; you lose the moment the first invader lands on the castle walls. In Magic Touch: Wizard for Hire you eliminate the enemies by drawing letters, symbols, and shapes on their balloons to puncture them.
Aaru's Awakening
Arcade 24 February 2015
Aaru's Awakening is a dynamic platform game developed by the indie studio Lumenox Games. The game takes the players to a fantasy world that exists thanks to the balance between the domains that can be found there: Dawn, Dusk, Day, and Night. At some point, however, Night began its expansion and started to take over the place of the remaining domains, bringing the world at the edge of destruction. To counter the threat, Dawn sent out its champion, the titular Aaru.
Tap Heroes
Arcade 22 February 2015
A clicker and role-playing game hybrid by Daniel Hjelm from VaragtP. The game is set in a fantasy world and you play as a warrior. The gameplay in Tap Heroes focuses on combat, in which you participating by quickly clicking on the enemies (to attack them), the members of your team (to heal them), and golden coins, which are the in-game currency. As the game progresses, the skill level of your characters (including e.g.