Arcade Spirits
"Set in 20XX, Arcade Spirits follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred - after a turbulant work history you are granted employment at the Funplex, a popular arcade, home to…
Arcade Spirits is an adventure developed by Fiction Factory Games, released 12 February 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.
What Arcade Spirits is
Arcade Spirits is an adventure game developed by Fiction Factory Games and released in 2019. It was published by PQube. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Set in 20XX, Arcade Spirits follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred - after a turbulant work history you are granted employment at the Funplex, a popular arcade, home to a host of unique personalities and customers. Where will this new found employment take you? Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?"
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Arcade Spirits holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Arcade Spirits launched on 12 February 2019, within three weeks of Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III and Anthem. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Anthem.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Arcade Spirits yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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