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Turn a rundown laundromat into a RADICAL ’90s arcade. Featuring over 35 fully playable arcade games, you must manage your business, and reinvest profits to expand your neon kingdom. Balance dirty laundry with pixel-perfect fun as you build the greatest arcade empire ever.
Arcade Paradise is a adventure, arcade and management game
developed by Nosebleed Interactive
and published by Wired Productions.
Released on August 11th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,746 reviews of which 1,431 were positive and 315 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10 32bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent AMD
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 6770
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
- Additional Notes: Microsoft Xbox Controller for Windows® (or equivalent) is recommended.
User reviews & Ratings
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This honestly feels like the old museum games from the PSX/PS2 era where you would have the classic game in an arcade enviroment rather than a simple ROM list. Most of the games are great and remind me of my childhood games with new/unique twists. It doesn't take a lot of effort to "beat" this game which is good because it slowly reduces the "simulation" and increases the arcade experience. gameplay depends on the game but there is going to be several games that you enjoy. My youngest also loves it and i'm honestly not sure who has put more hours on this game at this point I will say if you only buy the base game and skip the DLC you might actually be in for a better experience. Every single DLC I have feels worse in every way and several almost feel completely unfun on purpose. and to do to the daily goals you may find yourself playing games you don't like for longer than you want.
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A game of the nostalgia made by nostalgic people and for the nostalgic people. It did not hit me that much but i guess for even older people could mean something for the arcade nostalgia. Its hard to qualify this game. Probably a 6/10. A good idea but i dont know if very well implemented. It has some good moments but in others it becomes really really repetitive and some of the achievements are just grinding, better skip them with some tricks....
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This was my first work/management sim and enjoyed this but its a slow burn and hella repetitive! At the start of the game you grind picking up rubbish (my god if i miss that dumpster again!) and loading dirty clothes, eventually getting in more arcade machines and expanding out the back of the laundrette. When you get enough machines you can forget doing laundry but still have to pick up litter which is a complete annoyance. I took it as far as I could before getting bored.
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WOW!!!! After 27.7 hours I have FINALLY reached the point in the game where doing laundry is OVER! Great to see that I still have around 7 more arcade machines to BUY!! Its worth it 100% to give this game a full play-though! I've enjoyed my time with it and now I can finally focus on HIGH SCORES!!! Lots of surprises while playing too! Story was interesting. Give it a try! See what arcades were all about!
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At first glance, Arcade Paradise seems like another entry into the veritable mountain of Sim-Jank titles we've come to expect from Steam's liberal view of curation. And to be sure, there will be some of that, especially when you get your first glance at what appears to be the usual collection of prefabbed assets (it's on Unity, and you can definitely tell). But if you give the game a chance, and put up with a few dozen loads of laundry for a bit, you'll find there's a bit more under the hood than expected in terms of gameplay, narrative, and the satisfaction of growing your business from a crappy laundromat to a nostalgic Arcade refuge. In the beginning of the game, you start off working in a dilapidated laundromat which happens to have a handful of arcade games in the backroom, a room that frankly looks like no customer should assume they're allowed back there. During this time your primary focus is on maintaining the laundry business, putting in loads, switching them (why aren't customers doing this themselves? What the hell is that token machine for, then?) picking up trash (they're animals), unsticking gum. and unblocking the toilet. The immediate thing you'll notice in all of this is that everything is treated like a minigame. Laundry tests your speed in completing it, gum challenges you to pull strong enough in quick succession, and the toilet has you looking for the 'sweet spot' for the most 'damaging' plunges. None of it is particularly compelling on its own but that small bit of presentation goes a long way in keeping you here longer than expected. Of course, your primary motivation is to make enough money to buy more machines and ultimately manifest your dreams of a personal arcade into reality. This creates an interesting 'work-life balance' because the primary way to make your arcade machines profitable is to play them often, and complete the goals therein. This increases their traffic and allows you to set the price and difficulty higher, owing to their popularity. But you only have so much time between loads of laundry, which will be your primary source of income for the early goings of the game. For some players, the laundry is viewed as a chore. And I'm conflicted on how to feel about that. Because I agree - laundry gets annoying, and just interrupts you from what you'd rather be doing. But at the same time, it is a literal chore. That's the point. You'd rather be playing arcade games, and you can only do so between laundry tasks, and as annoying as that can be, it adds another layer of...thrill, perhaps? It adds some thrill to the arcade gaming experience, where the otherwise simplistic games take on new urgency when you've only got maybe 2 minutes to do whatever it is you need to do with them. And ultimately you dream of the day when you don't have to do laundry at all, a primary motivator for success. In this way, the game works as intended, even if that means grumbling to yourself whenever your wristwatch (don't get me started on that damn watch) beeps WASH at you while you're trying to get those last few money stacks in Racer Chaser. The arcade games themselves are a mixed bag. They seem to span an era of roughly between 1972 and 1998 (the game itself is set in 1993, so that knockoff Dance Dance Revolution should really be blowing people's minds). Some of them are okayish, others kinda boring, and a choice few are genuinely addicting. Many of them are recognizable as being based on something more famous. Shuttlecocks is just Pong, with no real variation from the classic formula. Communists From Mars is a pretty close approximation to Missile Command. Line Terror is a somehow more annoying version of Qix (we have history). Other games are recognizable in their inspiration but with a new twist. For instance, Racer Chaser's gameplay is overwhelmingly based on Pac-Man but is thematically also inspired by Grand Theft Auto. It adds the new element that once you're caught by a cop car, you jump out of your vehicle and make a run for it to another vehicle to continue the game. Another example would be Meteor Madness, quite clearly based on Asteroids but with the added element of tasking you to grapple crystals blown out from the rocks and bring them to the delivery point. There's a pretty wide variety of games just in the base game alone, and I won't speak to the quality of the DLC games as I only purchased one, the pinball machine (Which is...fine). Somewhat surprisingly, the game has a narrative woven into all of this, surrounding your disapproving, business-tycoon father's reluctant decision to let you run his old laundromat, and your collaboration with your sister working at City Hall to help you transform the place into a thriving arcade without the old man's knowledge. The story beats are a bit predictable but I appreciate that some effort was put into it, as it's not really what you expect out of a game like this. The only voice acting you'll hear is from your crankshaft of a father, and the actor is putting on this very comical hoity-toity voice ("Hello Ashley...this is your father." Very organic). Proving your dad wrong might not motivate most players to move forward as much as the simple promise of buying a new cabinet but it does give some sort of context to the whole thing, even if the game tremendously glosses over the actual logistical challenges to owning an arcade (there is literally no overhead. That's very convenient!) Overall, this is a game I picked up on sale for $7 in the hopes of distracting me for a little bit from existing in America, in October of 2024. What I figured I'd get bored with in two or three days turned into something that I honestly couldn't put down, with the allure of the delivery truck recklessly dropping a new game at my doorstep always keeping me playing for just one more business day. I don't think it's a game for everybody, and I think it's something that might appeal to a more 'oddball' demographic, or at the very least, nostalgia seekers. But for a game that greatly exceeded my admittedly modest expectations, I am more than happy to award it the prestigious Blue Thumbs Up of Quality.
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Arcade Paradise is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Arcade Paradise is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Arcade Paradise received 1,431 positive votes out of a total of 1,746 achieving a rating of 7.86.
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Arcade Paradise was developed by Nosebleed Interactive and published by Wired Productions.
Arcade Paradise is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Arcade Paradise is not playable on MacOS.
Arcade Paradise is not playable on Linux.
Arcade Paradise offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Arcade Paradise offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 11 DLCs available for Arcade Paradise. Explore additional content available for Arcade Paradise on Steam.
Arcade Paradise does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Arcade Paradise supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Arcade Paradise is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
21
Developer
Nosebleed Interactive
Publisher
Wired Productions
Release
11 Aug 2022
Platforms
Remote Play
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