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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.

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Adventures of Pip
Adventures of Pip

Arcade 04 June 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.

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Mutant Mudds Super Challenge
Mutant Mudds Super Challenge

Arcade 17 March 2016

Mutant Mudds Super Challenge is a follow-up to the 2012 platform game developed by Renegade Kids. The game is directed mostly to the players who finished the first installment of the series and works as a bridge to its upcoming sequel. We play as a regular kid named Max who has to save his planet from the invasion of the aliens known as the Mudd creatures. Max is equipped only with a water pistol and a special backpack that allows him to jump higher and farther.

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Touchdown Hero
Touchdown Hero

Arcade 29 January 2015

A 2D runner arcade game by Polish studio Cherry Pick Games, featuring an American football theme. You participate in a game and try to score as many touchdowns as you can. It's not an easy task, as the whole opposing team is trying to knock you over, and their numbers and persistence increase with every round. You goal is to get a high score to earn you the first place in the online ranking. As you win more and more games, you unlock new costumes for your player.

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Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows
Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows

Arcade 17 September 2015

A free expansion to Shovel Knight, a well-received platform title developed by Yacht Club Games. This time, the players received a completely new hero – Plague Knight, who is known for being one of the antagonists in the base game. After his defeat at the hands of Shovel Knight, the fledging protagonist decides to leave his former allies and embark on a journey in search of ingredients necessary for creation of a mysterious, powerful potion.

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Super Dungeon Bros
Super Dungeon Bros

Arcade 01 November 2016

An online co-op fantasy arcade game developed by React! Games. In Super Dungeon Bros, as a group of brave knights, we try to wade through subsequent levels, nearing the ultimate goal of taking revenge on the murderer of our mentor. The core of the gameplay is free cooperation mode in which we explore, solve simple logic puzzles, avoid deadly traps, and cut down hordes of enemies.

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Tap Heroes
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.

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SpongeBob: Sponge on the Run
SpongeBob: Sponge on the Run

Arcade 22 January 2015

An arcade endless runner game based on the popular animated TV series titled SpongeBob SquarePants. The game is one of the popular productions accompanying the full-length movie about SpongeBob. The gameplay mechanics revolve around controlling the continuously running SpongeBob in an attempt to cover the longest distance possible on the procedurally generated map comprising three tracks filled with diverse obstacles and numerous collectibles.

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Devious Dungeon 2
Devious Dungeon 2

Arcade 09 April 2015

Devious Dungeon 2 is a platform game released on mobile platforms. It takes place in the same fantasy land as the first game from the series and, like previously, game's world is presented as 2D retro-stylized maps. To finish each level, we have to find a key that unlocks a portal. Many traps and enemies will try to stop us from doing so. The RPG elements allow us to spend the experience points we gained on leveling up our character.

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SpongeBob: HeroPants
SpongeBob: HeroPants

Arcade 03 February 2015

An action-filled platform game with logic puzzle elements. The title is based on the license of a popular animated TV series - SpongeBob SquarePants - and continues the story shown in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. In the game, developed by Behaviour Interactive, one assumes the role of the titular sponge and his bizarre friends to restore the former glory of their underwater metropolis - Bikini Bottom.

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Alto's Adventure
Alto's Adventure

Arcade 19 February 2015

A simple arcade endless runner game by indie studio Snowman. The protagonist is a llama shepherd. When the animals scatter across the area, he has to catch them all. During the game you ride a snowboard on procedurally generated hills — the character move forward automatically and your task is to avoid obstacles on the snowy route, perform acrobatics (which give you additional points), and escape the angry enemies, whose sleep you interrupt.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Panem Run
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Panem Run

Arcade 21 November 2013

Accompanying the promotion of the film Death Games: In the Ring of Fire arcade game in the convention of a classic endless runner. In the game, we run away from the security agents, traversing the world's districts with the Lord and bypassing obstacles scattered along the route.

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Pix the Cat
Pix the Cat

Arcade 07 October 2014

Crazy two-dimensional dexterity, combining the mechanics of Pac-Man and the popular "Snake" on mobile phones. By guiding the title cat, which is obediently followed by a string of small ducks, we have to lead the birds to the place of destination, taking care not to accidentally touch the end of our own tail. The game offers fun modes, slightly different mechanics and different graphic design.

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Earn to Die 2
Earn to Die 2

Arcade 20 November 2014

Earn to Die 2 is an arcade game by Toffee Games team, in which we rush armored and armed cars through two-dimensional boards filled with living corpses. Our task is to reach the end of each map and at the same time eliminate the zombies standing on our way.

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Docking Sequence
Docking Sequence

Arcade 18 December 2014

A unique science-fiction arcade game. You play as the pilot of a spaceship (one of ten unlockable vessels), who docks to a hundred space stations. The task is not an easy one, as the stations are quite small, continuously rotate, so the docking requires good skills. To make things worse, there are many obstacles and dangers in space, and they can ruin even the most easy-looking docking. The dangers include asteroids, space pirates, mines, anomalies, and mysterious black monoliths.

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2-bit Cowboy
2-bit Cowboy

Arcade 08 May 2014

2-bit Cowboy is a two-dimensional platformer of the Cascadia Games team, which was made in a style based on games available on the 8-bit Gameboy console. The action is set in the Wild West, allowing you to play the role of a sheriff defending a small town.

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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.

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Spelunker Z
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.

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Stealth Inc. 2
Stealth Inc. 2

Arcade 23 October 2014

The second part of a sci-fi sci-fi skeleton platformer, also known as Stealth Bastard, set in the realities of science fiction. In the game we play the role of a hacker-burglar, who breaks through the research complex of a powerful corporation, releasing clones imprisoned there. Our hero bypasses security and hackes center systems, avoiding detection and contact with enemies.

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Ninja Pizza Girl
Ninja Pizza Girl

Arcade 30 September 2015

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.

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Inside My Radio
Inside My Radio

Arcade 11 May 2015

Inside My Radio is a hybrid platformer and music game developed by TurboDindon and Seaven studios. All activities, including board exploration, acrobatic jumps, avoiding obstacles and fighting opponents, must be performed to the rhythm of music.

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Deuce
Deuce

Arcade canceled

A humorous arcade game combining a tennis simulation with automatic elements of Street Fighter fights. As we play, we play in tennis arenas scattered around the world, controlling players with a variety of skills and unique special games such as fiery or ice balls.

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6180 the moon
6180 the moon

Arcade 09 March 2013

Minimalistic two-dimensional platformer in which we play the moon looking for the lost sun. Innovative production mechanics is the combination of the upper and lower edges of the screen. The game has a total of 100 levels of increasing difficulty.

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Spectra: 8bit Racing
Spectra: 8bit Racing

Arcade 15 May 2014

A futuristic three-dimensional racing game with tracks generated randomly from one of the 10 available music tracks. Players must be careful not to fall out of the serpentine-like track while collecting the balls scattered over it for which points are awarded.

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FRU
FRU

Arcade 13 July 2016

FRU is a simple platformer developed by Thorough Games studio with Kinect move controller in mind. The players lead a small, mustached protagonist through around a dozen of diverse levels, located in several different worlds. The point of the game is that the world needs to be discovered by means of actual gestures of the player, directed to the console via the Kinect controller. By assuming the right body position, the player's "shadow" establishes a path which the protagonist follows.

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