The Best Arcade Games

Update : Tri Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey added at rank #1.
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Tri Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey (2024)

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

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.

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

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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind (2024)

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

In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, the team faces off against a robotic reincarnation of the Power Rangers' long-time nemesis. Robo Rita has conjured a portal to send herself back in time so she can finally vanquish the Power Rangers by forming an alliance with her younger self.

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  • arcade
  • beat-em-up
  • brawler
  • cooperative
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • retro
  • pixel
  • classic
  • fight
  • side-scrolling
  • hand-drawn
  • multiplayer
  • 1990s
  • local

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ROGUE FLIGHT (2024)

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

A breathtaking arcade space combat game inspired by prestige anime.

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  • shooter
  • arcade
  • flight
  • anime
  • multiple-endings
  • rail
  • controller-support
  • rogue-like
  • ohio
  • combat
  • 1990s
  • stylized
  • 1980s
  • combo
  • vehicle

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Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem (2024)

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

Hot Wheels™ Monster Trucks are ready to catch some wild air and perform insane stunts while smashing and bashing through fantastical arenas in a new game that brings your favorite monster trucks to your fingertips!


  • racing
  • cartoony
  • arena
  • arcade
  • vehicle
  • off-road
  • truck
  • boss
  • sport
  • combo
  • 3d
  • action
  • pvp
  • skill
  • local

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Iron Meat (2024)

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

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

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Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics (2024)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4

The legendary crossover hits are back! The action-packed lineup consisting of seven unique titles, is full of heavy hitters like X-MEN VS. STREET FIGHTER, and MARVEL vs. CAPCOM 2 New Age of Heroes. The collection also includes the rare beat 'em up game, THE PUNISHER.

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  • fight
  • crossover
  • arcade
  • online
  • classic
  • compilation
  • beat-em-up
  • cooperative
  • retro
  • combo
  • superhero
  • comic
  • multiplayer
  • battle
  • 1990s

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Utopia Must Fall (2024)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.

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  • dark
  • arcade
  • rogue-like
  • shoot-em-up
  • base-building
  • humor
  • tower-defense
  • bullet-hell
  • procedural
  • perma-death
  • comedy
  • abstract
  • sci-fi
  • minimalist
  • shooter

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Mirage Feathers (2024)

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PC Windows

「Maybe one day, I won't have to fight when I fly.」

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  • on-rails
  • harrier
  • shooter
  • anime
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • arcade
  • cute
  • rail
  • pixel
  • tps
  • nostalgia
  • drama
  • story
  • top-tier

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Abathor (2024)

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

Abathor is a 2D arcade action platformer for up to 4 players. You are the last hope in defense of Atlantis, you’ll face hordes of enemies and countless challenges. Enjoy its pixel art and epic music. A cooperative and competitive game to achieve glory or death.

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  • platform
  • cooperative
  • scroller
  • retro
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • local
  • demons
  • multiplayer
  • precision
  • difficult
  • action

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Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (2024)

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

42 of the weirdest, trippiest, sheepiest games ever created. Enter the mind of Jeff Minter, the legendary creator of Attack of the Mutant Camels, Gridrunner, and Tempest 2000, in this interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse.


  • platform
  • precision
  • psychedelic
  • documentary
  • controller-support
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • interactive
  • surreal
  • 1980s
  • arcade
  • abstract
  • retro
  • pixel
  • 1990s

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