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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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Gauntlet (2014)
Gauntlet (2014)

Arcade 23 September 2014

A modern remake of the legendary dungeon crawler game, originally released in 1985. The game was the base for several better or worse productions and had multiple sequels for almost all platforms. The new Gauntlet was developed by Arrowhead, known for the Magicka series. Mechanics-wise, the game is a classic top-down arcade production with role-playing elements. You play as heroes traversing expansive dungeons, which are inhabited by monsters and ghosts.

Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries
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.

Gauntlet II
Gauntlet II

Arcade 20 August 1989

The huge success of Gauntlet caused that less than twelve months later, the Atari corporation tried to unveil the second installment of the adventures of the fearless team of heroes, who dreaming of fame and wealth descended to the underground inhabited by fantastic creatures.