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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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The Smurfs: Dreams
The Smurfs: Dreams

Arcade 24 October 2024

A 3D platformed based on the Smurfs licence. In The Smurfs: Dreams we traverse beautiful lands, trying to wake up the Smurfs affected by Gargamel's curse. We also solve puzzles, jump on platforms and fight. The game supports both singleplayer and local coop on a shared screen.

Escape Goat
Escape Goat

Arcade 29 September 2022

Escape Goat is a fun platform game, referring to the glory of 8-bit computers, in which we control a violet goat imprisoned for wizardry. Our goal is to find and obtain the keys that will allow us to unlock the transition to the next stage. To do this, we beat dynamically changing levels, full of traps, enemies, and a variety of buttons and switches.

Volgarr the Viking
Volgarr the Viking

Arcade 05 October 2017

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.

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.

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

Arcade 08 June 2017

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.

ibb & obb
ibb & obb

Arcade 05 March 2020

Cooperative two-dimensional platformer. Each of the two players controls a creature who wants to reach the end of the board, divided into two parts. Its lower half has inverted gravity. Both heroes must therefore help each other by using portals that allow them to move to the other side.

Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Arcade 12 October 2023

Cook, Serve, Delicious! is a demanding arcade game with elements of strategic production. The player's task is to run a catering point located in a high skyscraper. Success depends on well-thought-out planning of the next working days and effective customer service.

140
140

Arcade 09 January 2020

Minimalistic 2D platformer, produced by independent Carlsen Games studio. The player's task is to guide a small geometric figure through the board full of obstacles, whose appearance changes to the rhythm of the music played. The game received the Independence Game Festival 2013 award for soundtrack.

Shu
Shu

Arcade 23 January 2018

An original platform game by Scottish studio Secret Lunch, combining arcade elements with the necessity of making moral decisions. The plot focuses on the eponymous protagonist trying to escape a violent storm. To stay alive, he has to reach the summit of a mysterious mountain, but the road is full of various dangers. Shu constantly moves to the right side of the screen, sliding and avoiding traps.

Life Goes On: Done to Death
Life Goes On: Done to Death

Arcade 23 July 2018

Life Goes On is a humorous platformer game by the independent studio Infinite Monkeys. The player assumes control of a group of brave knights who set out to seek the mythical Cup of Life. While the mission is anything but safe, the valiant warriors are willing to give their lives in order to help their successors. The goal is to bring a knight to the end of a level where a prize awaits. Before that, however, you have to overcome a number of deadly traps.

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition

Arcade 08 October 2018

A humorous platformer set in Mexican climates. We travel between different dimensions to save the kidnapped daughter El Presidente from the hands of a skeleton named Carlos Calaca. Two people can take part in the game, playing on one screen. The Super Turbo Championship edition has been enriched with new, previously unavailable elements.

King Oddball
King Oddball

Arcade 30 October 2017

Two-dimensional arcade and logic game very similar to the hit series Angry Birds. Players control a huge stone ball with a face floating in the air, which with its own tongue fires boulders at soldiers.

Spelunker HD Deluxe
Spelunker HD Deluxe

Arcade 06 August 2021

Reincarnation of a two-dimensional platformer known from the NES console, in which we play the role of an incompetent traveller. We travel through caves full of dangers and treasures to gain glory and wealth. The game has been adapted to the HD standard.

The Pinball Arcade
The Pinball Arcade

Arcade 11 May 2018

Advanced simulator that reproduces with great attention to detail the really existing and most popular pinball tables in the world. The title allows you to learn about the history of this form of entertainment and test your strength in competition with the best players through the online scoreboard.

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood

Arcade 21 December 2017

A colourful platforming game in which we try to save the younger brother of the main character. Players in the adventure use a magical marker, allowing you to influence the environment by adding platforms or ropes.

Shovel Knight
Shovel Knight

Arcade 03 March 2017

Shovel Knight is a classical 2D platform game with elements of adventure and RPG, set in fantasy world. The title is a debut of the independent studio Yacht Club Games, hiring, among others, former employees of the experienced Way Forward studio. In the production, we impersonate a titular knight who, with the help of a legendary shovel-like weapon, fights the mysterious members of The Order of No Quarter.

SuperMoose
SuperMoose

Arcade 08 January 2021

Action adventure game, a result of cooperation between PlayWay and Intermarum studio. A greedy construction company intends to destroy the forest and build a housing estate in its place. Animals are threatened with forced eviction.

Chasm
Chasm

Arcade 11 October 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.

Super Chariot
Super Chariot

Arcade 10 May 2018

Dedicated to play in the local mode of cooperation, humorous platforming based on the laws of physics. In the game we play the role of a princess who, trying to fulfill the last will of her deceased father, decides to transport the coffin with its remains to the dream place of eternal rest.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Arcade 13 July 2018

Colourful three-dimensional platformer with logical elements. Players take on the role of Toad, one of the heroes known from Mario's games in the lead role, who explores small locations, full of treasures, hidden passages and enemies.

6180 the moon
6180 the moon

Arcade 24 May 2018

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.

Jamestown+
Jamestown+

Arcade 12 December 2019

A refreshed version of Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony, a side-scroller taking place in an unusual setting. We are taken to an alternative version of 17th century, in which the Spanish, British, and Martian forces clash in a fight for the right to colonize Mars. The player assumes control over a small vessel that is tasked with the elimination of hordes of enemies that appear along the way.

Never Alone: Arctic Collection
Never Alone: Arctic Collection

Arcade 24 February 2022

A platformer with puzzle game features, developed by Upper One Game studio. The story of Never Alone is based on Inuit beliefs, with players taking control of a young girl from the Inupiaq tribe who sets on a dangerous journey with her white fox to save her people and stop the arrival of the eternal blizzard. During her adventure, she will meet many creatures from Inuit legends, such as Sky People, Rolling Heads or Blizzard Man.

To Leave
To Leave

Arcade 09 September 2022

A difficult 2D platform game, in which you play as a character floating in midair on a magical door. Even the smallest mistake resulting in touching the ground or one of the many obstacles, which forces you to start a level over.