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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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Psychonauts 2
Psychonauts 2

Arcade 25 August 2021

A three-dimensional platform game and a continuation to the 2005's Psychonauts, a game by Double Fine Productions studio. The main protagonist of the game is our old acquaintance, a psychic named Raz, who specializes in trips to other people's minds. Invited to the headquarters of the eponymous secret organization, employing people with psychic talents from all around the world, he discovers that the group is in serious trouble and it is up to him to rescue them.

River Tails: Stronger Together
River Tails: Stronger Together

Arcade 2025

River Tails: Stronger Together is a 3D platform game about a wild cat and fish's journey up a river. The game was designed for co-op mdoe, but it also offers a singleplayer mode where one player controls both characters.

Organic Panic
Organic Panic

Arcade 29 March 2017

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.

The Hero Trap
The Hero Trap

Arcade canceled

The Hero Trap is an independent dungeon crawler game in the realities of fantasy. We go through deeper and deeper levels of the underground, fighting monsters and searching for treasures. Production is characterized by random generation of locations and the ability to instantly switch between different characters, equipped with different features and abilities.

Chasm
Chasm

Arcade 31 July 2018

A two-dimensional arcade platformer with RPG features from Discord Games studio. Chasm tells a story of a soldier who returns home after a long war. He arrives in an abandoned mining town and discovers most of its inhabitants have disappeared after entering a mysterious temple, deep down beneath the village. Our hero decides to stop the awakened evil, rescue the town’s inhabitants, and then safely return to his home.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Director's Cut
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Director's Cut

Arcade 10 December 2014

An enhanced edition of a 2012's platformer game Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. The Director's Cut offers improved graphics (1080p), as well as the contents of the two DLC packs, namely Rise of the Owlverlord and Halloween Level. The remaining contents of the game have not been changed. A girl by the name of Giana is the protagonist.

Mighty No. 9
Mighty No. 9

Arcade 21 June 2016

Mighty No. 9 is an arcade platformer developed in 2.5D by the experienced Japanese developer Comcept; the title draws inspiration from the renowned Mega Man series. The storyline is focused on the character of mighty Beck, the only robot who resisted an extremely dangerous virus, which arouses aggression among mechanical beings. It is the task of our protagonist to eliminate the danger and return the order to the world of the robots. The gameplay mechanics in Mighty No.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Arcade 20 December 2016

Two-dimensional platformer developed by the team at Way Forward Technologies. The game is another entry in a series that originally launched in 2002 on Game Boy Color. The story of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero takes place in fairy tale-like land, inspired by the One Thousand and One Nights. A half-genie, half-human heroine takes off to a different dimension to fight against a recklessly freed ancient evil.

Sportsfriends
Sportsfriends

Arcade 06 May 2014

A set of independent games designed to play in competition mode with live opponents. The package, whose commercial release was financially supported by the Kickstarter community, included four productions: Johann Sebastian Joust, Super Pole Riders, Hokra and BaraBariBall.

Energy Hook
Energy Hook

Arcade 05 July 2016

Energy Hook is a 3D arcade game developed by Happion Labs that takes place in an unspecified future. The titular Energy Hook is a mechanical device that looks like a glove and fires a beam of energy that sticks to the hit object like a rope. Initially used on construction sites, the device soon began to be used by the youth in crazy competitions of flying between skyscrapers. Participants would get points for speed, style, and acrobatics.

Volgarr the Viking
Volgarr the Viking

Arcade 16 November 2016

Brutal, two-dimensional platformer maintained in retro style. The hero of the game, the Viking named Völgarr, was revived by Odin to kill the army of the evil dwarf Fafnir. As we travel through an army of monsters in a land of monsters, we have to face stronger and stronger enemies, ingenious traps and powerful bosses.

Paparazzi
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.

Yooka-Laylee
Yooka-Laylee

Arcade 11 April 2017

Yooka-Laylee is a 3D platformer developed by Playtonic Games, a studio created by the experienced developers who played a crucial role in the development of Rare's biggest games. The game's title is a blend of the protagonists names. Yooka, the first of them, is a chameleon who has an unusually long tongue, which can be used to grab onto various surfaces and cover large distances. The other one, Laylee, is a bat who can use sonic attacks.

Adventures of Pip
Adventures of Pip

Arcade 18 August 2015

An old-school 2D platform game which comes with an unusual plot and an unconventional character development system. Adventures of Pip was funded on Kickstarter, which made it possible for the game to reach owners of different gaming systems. The player is taken to the Pixel Kingdom, where life as such is driven by the never ending flow of bits. The world is endangered by the evil Queen however, who has kidnapped the beautiful princess and conquered the lands with the help of her warriors.

Red Goddess: Inner World
Red Goddess: Inner World

Arcade 30 June 2015

An independent action-adventure game developed by Yanim Studio. We assume the role of Divine, a goddess tormented by an unknown malicious entity. To get to the bottom of the problem, the heroine embarks to explore the Planet, a living being representing her psyche. This unusual world is divided into two zones: neutral, consisting of the planet’s surface, and dark, known as the underworld, guarded by terrifying bosses.

Ninja Pizza Girl
Ninja Pizza Girl

Arcade 20 July 2016

Side-scrolling platformer set in cyberpunk world of future ruled by powerful corporations, developed by Disparity Games. We play as a sixteen year old girl named Emma, who delivers pizza from her father’s restaurant. Following her family’s business, she must do her job and avoid cruel teenagers. Gameplay wise, Ninja Pizza Girl combines features of classic platform titles like Sonic with parkour elements known from some modern productions.

Pankapu
Pankapu

Arcade 19 September 2017

The debut of a French developer known as Too Kind. The game is a two-dimensional platformer and was funded on Kickstarter. The plot in Pankapu was divided into two branches. On one hand, the game tells a story of the brave warrior Pankapu - as told by a father reading this story to his child, Jaha'rell. The actual gameplay is rooted in that story, for the player assumes the role of said warrior, who was created by the god of dreams in order to eradicate the nightmares invading this world.

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.

Battle Princess Madelyn
Battle Princess Madelyn

Arcade 20 December 2018

A two-dimensional platform game developed by the independent studio Causal Bit Games (the creators of 2014 Insanity’s Blade). During the game the player controls princess Madelyn who was forced to fight evil in order to save the kingdom and her family. The gameplay of Battle Princess Madelyn relates to classic titles like Ghosts ’n Goblins and Ghouls ‘n Ghosts.

Ty The Tasmanian Tiger
Ty The Tasmanian Tiger

Arcade 25 July 2020

TY the Tasmanian Tiger is a simple platformer for the youngest players with a ridiculous tiger in the lead role. Although it dies in the multitude of other productions, it is worthy of interest.

Curse of the Sea Rats
Curse of the Sea Rats

Arcade 06 April 2023

Curse of the Sea Rats is a metroidvania game from Petoons Studio. Our task is to find the kidnapped son of the admiral, to do so we play as one of the 4 enchanted rat heroes. The game can be played alone or in local cooperation mode.

La-Mulana 2
La-Mulana 2

Arcade 20 March 2020

A continuation of a stylish old-school platform game that had us travel through Aztec ruins as Lemeza Kosugi, an agile archeologist similar to Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones. La-Mulana 2 enables us to assume the role of the daughter of that hero, who had turned out just like her father, traveling through mysterious, inaccessible locations while wearing her trademark hat. The new adventure takes us to Scandinavia, and introduces a plot inspired by Nordic legends.

Desert Child
Desert Child

Arcade 11 December 2018

The original combination of arcade racing game, RPG production and life simulator, which is set in the distant future. In Desert Child we play the role of the pilot of a levitating scooter, which executes various paid orders, trying to bind the end to the end.

Alwa's Legacy
Alwa's Legacy

Arcade 30 November 2021

The second part of the metroidvania platform game series, launched in 2017. Inspired by the 16-bit hits, Alwa's Legacy takes us to the Alwa land, which we walk through as the heroine named Zoe.