The Best Arcade Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : Tri Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey added at rank #14.
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Darius (2021)

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Darius is one of the pioneers of the side-scrolling shoot 'em genre, and the Steam version replicates the multi-screen arcade experience with 4 different titles and 7 versions filled with aquatic-lifeform-themed bosses and epic, Zuntata-composed soundscapes!

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  • shooter
  • arcade
  • boss
  • shoot-em-up
  • horizontal-scrolling
  • soundtrack
  • scrolling
  • bullet-hell
  • boss-fight
  • attack
  • score
  • multiple-endings
  • multiplayer
  • 2d

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G-Darius HD (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

You will see the creation of new lives... Capture enemies and fire them back at their allies as enormous beams of energy in this horizontally scrolling shooting game, featuring 5 versions of G-Darius with new features, enhancements, and Steam exclusive extras!

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  • arcade
  • shooter
  • boss
  • horizontal
  • 2.5d
  • shoot-em-up
  • scroller
  • underwater
  • horizontal-scrolling
  • retro-arcade
  • fish
  • boss-fight
  • 1990s
  • attack
  • score

13

Capcom Arcade Stadium (2021)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Relive the Capcom classics! Get 1943 -The Battle of Midway- and game logo wallpapers free with your download!

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  • arcade
  • classic
  • retro
  • fight
  • shooter
  • local
  • vertical
  • online
  • compilation
  • scrolling
  • platform
  • cooperative

14

Tri Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey (2024)

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If Twin Breaker was a brick breaker about space, Tri Breaker is a brick breaker on steroids, and this go-around, it’s all about time. Explore 40 stages spread across periods of galactic history, and obliterate the brick-breaking formula.


  • retro-fueled
  • retro
  • 1980s
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • casual
  • 2d
  • pinball
  • boss-fight
  • ball-and-paddle
  • chiptune
  • action
  • goal-driven
  • narrative
  • multi-stage

15

Akka Arrh (2022)

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Akka Arrh combines the intrigue of an incredibly rare Atari arcade prototype with a unique creative vision. A cascade of words, color, shapes and sound flows around your turret as you desperately fight off swarms of inbound attackers.


  • arcade
  • shooter
  • top-down
  • wave
  • psychedelic
  • abstract
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • combo
  • score
  • classic
  • colourful

16

Swordship (2022)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Swordship is a futuristic lightning-fast dodge’em up which flips the script on the traditional arcade shooter. Turn both the tide of battle and enemies on themselves by dodging, weaving and diving your way through an onslaught of enemies hell-bent on tearing your Swordship apart.

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  • rogue-like
  • arcade
  • underwater
  • futuristic
  • action
  • abstract
  • shooter
  • top-down
  • 3d
  • naval
  • stylized
  • sci-fi
  • split-second
  • pulse-pounding
  • colourful

17

Iron Meat (2024)

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Iron Meat is a run-and-gun arcade shooter that immerses players in an apocalyptic future overrun by "The Meat," an iron-ravenous mass mutating everything in its path. Blast your way through retro-inspired stages and bosses to uncover the shocking horrors behind secret experiments on the Moon.


  • gore-ific
  • run-and-gun
  • customization
  • 2d
  • shoot-em-up
  • arcade
  • platform
  • 2-player
  • scroller
  • gun
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • character
  • contra
  • shooter

18

Steel Assault (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Linux Playstation 5 Xbox One

Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.

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  • platform
  • post-apocalyptic
  • retro
  • arcade
  • old-school
  • pixel
  • action
  • america
  • 2d
  • perma-death
  • scroller
  • futuristic
  • classic
  • mech
  • fast-paced

19

Mokoko X (2022)

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Nostalgic arcade gameplay remastered! Conquer the bigger portion of the screen and save the unlucky girls from the various absurd troublemakers.

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  • dating-sim
  • top-down
  • arcade
  • boss
  • bullet-hell
  • anime
  • pirates
  • villain
  • shoot-em-up
  • cute
  • funny
  • story
  • 2d
  • naval

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Killer Queen Black (2019)

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Killer Queen is a real-time strategy platform video game for up to ten players, developed by Josh DeBonis and Nikita Mikros, the co-founders of BumbleBear Games. It premiered in 2013 at New York University's fourth annual "No Quarter" exhibition for indie arcade games.[1] A new game inspired by Killer Queen, called Killer Queen Black was released in 2019 on Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch, and will be released on February 22, 2021 for Xbox One.


  • multiplayer
  • team
  • competitive
  • local
  • arcade
  • online
  • strategy
  • platform
  • cooperative
  • 2d
  • cult
  • fast-paced
  • economy
  • fight
  • pixel

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