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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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Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Lost Words: Beyond the Page

Arcade 27 March 2020

Lost Words is an unusual 2D platform game. It's set inside a young girl's diary and you explore both the text written on the pages and the fantastical lands it describes. An important aspect of the game is solving logic puzzles, done by manipulating words to change the in-game world.

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Team Kirby Clash Deluxe
Team Kirby Clash Deluxe

Arcade 12 April 2017

A multiplayer action game by Nintendo, utilizing a free-to-play model. As the title implies, the players take on the roles of Kirbys, who participate in team battles with boss enemies threatening the Dream Kingdom. The team can consist of up to four players, and to win you have to cooperate with others and make use of your strengths. There are four kinds of Kirbys to choose from (Sword Hero, Hammer Lord, Doctor Healmore and Beam Mage), and every one of them has their own unique abilities.

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N2O: Nitrous Oxide
N2O: Nitrous Oxide

Arcade 30 June 1998

Maintained in a specific, slightly psychedelic style 3D arcade shooting, in which players can only move left or right. The goal is to conquer successive tunnels, eliminating enemies encountered on the way and achieving the best score possible.

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Wild 9
Wild 9

Arcade 30 September 1998

Created by Earthworm series authors Jim platformer 2.5D, whose mechanics is built around an unusual weapon of the main hero - a beam of energy, allowing him to grab enemies and various objects.

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Move or Die
Move or Die

Arcade 21 January 2016

A four-player party game that will ruin any friendship. During the challenges changed every several seconds, what counts is a quick eye, good coordination and precision of jumping on the platforms. There can only be one winner, and the title conceals the basic principle of survival - move or perish.

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Steel Rats
Steel Rats

Arcade 07 November 2018

Steel Rats is the production of Tate Multimedia, Polish studio known for KAO The Kangaroo series. This is an action racing game, in which we play as a member of a motorcycle gang - Steel Rats, and the aim is to clear the city of fearsome robots with our own wheels. Steel Rats is characterized by a 2.5D perspective and retro-futuristic design.

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Vib-Ribbon
Vib-Ribbon

Arcade 12 December 1999

A unique arcade game considered to be one of the first music-rhythmic productions. The creators of the legendary PaRappa the Rapper series are responsible for the production of the title. Players control the animated rabbit and to the rhythm of music must avoid obstacles standing in its way.

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Deemo Reborn
Deemo Reborn

Arcade 21 November 2019

A new version of the mobile production entitled Deemo. This is a music game in which fun is based on playing songs. Unlike the original, the title offers three-dimensional graphics and supports virtual reality.

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Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse

Arcade 30 November 1996

Created by Crystal Dynamics Space Shooting TPP with arcade character. The title is based on the assumptions known from the famous Star Fox series and is a continuation of the game released on 3DO in 1993 titled Total Eclipse.

PS1

Zoop
Zoop

Arcade 30 September 1995

An uncomplicated arcade game, developed by the Hookstone studio. In Zoop, the player controls a triangle in the center of a two-dimensional board, and his task is to shoot colorful objects coming from the edge of the screen.

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Whizz
Whizz

Arcade 15 February 1997

A colorful two-dimensional platformer, converted from personal computers, in which the action is presented in isometric projection. The title poses a number of logical and arcade challenges to the humanoid rabbit controlled by the players.

PS1

Shift Happens
Shift Happens

Arcade 22 February 2017

A hybrid of a platformer and a logic game, developed by the independent studio Klonk Games. The player takes control of Bismo and Plom – jelly-like humanoid creatures. By some accident, the heroes get literally bound together, which enables them to exchange their masses. Gameplay of Shift Happens consists in traveling through colorful locations, collecting valuable coins, and solving more and less demanding puzzles which require close cooperation between the two heroes.

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SteamWorld Dig 2
SteamWorld Dig 2

Arcade 21 September 2017

A sequel to the 2013 metroidvania title, developed by Image & Form. Once again, the players are taken to a unique world that combines steampunk with western setting, this time as a female robot looking for her missing friend. The gameplay of SteamWorld Dig 2 doesn’t depart from the groundwork of its predecessor, focusing on digging underground tunnels to reach places of interest and find treasures we can spend to upgrade our equipment.

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Cars 3: Driven to Win
Cars 3: Driven to Win

Arcade 13 June 2017

Another installment in a series of racing games based on Pixar animated movies. The game was developed by Avalanche Software, creators of titles like Pure and Split/Second: Velocity. The title enables the player to control more than twenty customizable vehicles-characters (animated cars are the main protagonists of Cars). Among them there are Lightning McQueen and Cruz Ramirez, who prepares for an encounter with his rival Jackson Storm. The action takes place on twenty unique tracks.

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Clustertruck
Clustertruck

Arcade 27 September 2016

A first-person perspective action game with platform features, developed by Swedish studio Landfall Games. In Clustertruck the player is tasked with jumping across the roofs of trucks that drive in a convoy. Each level has its beginning and end, and the objective of the game is to complete the whole track without touching the ground. Despite the simple gameplay rules, as the game progresses the objectives become harder and crazier.

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Hockey Stars
Hockey Stars

Arcade 18 November 2015

A web-based hockey arcade game, focusing on pvp gameplay. Hockey stars utilizes the free-to-play model with optional microtransactons. Like the previous Miniclip's production, Soccer Stars, Hockey Stars is a simple game inspired by coin football. Two five-person teams are pitted against each other and their task is to put the puck in the opponent's goal. The puck bounces of the edges of the pitch, but can also be controlled by the player, which allows for more precise strikes.

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Genital Jousting
Genital Jousting

Arcade 18 January 2018

Genital Jousting is an unusual party game developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital. We take part in various minigames, with up to eight players in local or online mulitplayer mode. What is unusual about the game is that we are controlling flaccid penises with wiggly anuses. Our "protagonist" can be dressed up in various clothes which will make him somewhat unique and easy to distinguish among the other "characters" controlled by the rest of the players.

PC

LocoRoco Remastered
LocoRoco Remastered

Arcade 09 May 2017

LocoRoco Remastered is, as the title suggests, a remastered version of the 2006 platform game that was released on PlayStation Portable. Gameplay focuses on shaking the pieces of the LocoRoco's world in order to move the game's spherical heroes to their destination points. We have to be careful though. There are many traps and obstacles that will make our job harder to do. In order to beat or avoid them, we have to rely on our heroes' specific abilities.

PS4

DISTANT
DISTANT

Arcade TBA

A platform game in which the player travels through a pastel, oneiric world, trying to stop its annihilation. The gameplay is based on exploring the environment, jumping from platform to platform, avoiding various terrain obstacles and solving uncomplicated environmental riddles.

PC

Goo Saga
Goo Saga

Arcade 07 April 2016

A game by Toka Loka Games studio, known for a mobile adventure game The Bait. Goo Saga takes us to a secret underwater laboratory, where a strange flexible goo comes to life. The player takes control of the titular Goo, which tries to find its creator as well as purpose of life. Mechanically, Goo Saga is a 2D platformer in Leo’s Fortune style. Going through levels requires a lot of skill, as the hero’s moves are really clumsy.

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Raiden V: Director's Cut
Raiden V: Director's Cut

Arcade 25 February 2016

The fifth official installment in a series of classic, scrolling top-down shooters. Raiden V was created by MOSS - a Japanese developer in possession of the rights to the franchise since 2005. Similar to the previous installments, the plot presents a great war between humans and Cranassian - an alien civilization that has attacked the Earth. The player has to face the invaders, assuming the role of a pilot.

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The Lab
The Lab

Arcade 05 April 2016

A free application developed with virtual reality devices in mind. It was created by Valve Software, the owner of Steam and such franchises as Half-Life, Dota, and Counter-Strike. The Lab is a set of unconnected mini-games that utilize the capabilities of virtual reality. In one of them, the player defends a castle from incoming waves of enemies with a bow.

PC

The Playroom
The Playroom

Arcade 15 November 2013

A set of mini games promoting PlayStation Camera and DualShock 4. Gamers can take care of a virtual working animal, play with small people, play holographic hockey and more.

PS4

Steredenn
Steredenn

Arcade 01 October 2015

A side-scrolling shooter developed by the independent Pixelnest Studio. The player sits at the helm of a spaceship, their task is to eliminate subsequent waves of incoming enemies. We encounter both ordinary, numerous opponents that aren’t too difficult to defeat as well as more rare bosses that require devising a special tactic to beat them. In Steredenn, we are not defenseless and the ship we pilot can be equipped with 35 kinds of weapons and 25 enhancements that we unlock with progress.

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