Best Arcade Games

Hotline Miami

Released: Oct 23, 2012

Critic rating: 86.2 / 100

Rating: M

Genres: Shooter, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: Google Stadia, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player

A top-down slasher/shooter with unlockable gameplay-altering masks and weapons, featuring a neon-flavoured electronic aesthetic, in which a hitman receives anonymous calls ordering him to travel to certain residences and crime dens and massacre those within, as he stumbles through unreal visions and inconsistencies without any answers to how, why or who.

Impossible Mission

Released: Dec 31, 1984

Critic rating: 100.0 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Arcade

Platforms: BBC Microcomputer System, Atari 7800, PC-8800 Series, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Sharp X1, Wii, Acorn Electron, Apple II, PlayStation Portable, Amstrad CPC, Sega Master System/Mark III

Game modes: Single player

The situation: for three days have the strategic central computers of the great powers acted up.

Soulstone Survivors

Released: Jun 17, 2025

Critic rating: 90.0 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac

Game modes: Single player

Face the Lords of the Void and their endless minions, collect their Soulstones and become a god!

Tekken 3

Released: Mar 20, 1997

Critic rating: 84.5 / 100 • 557 votes

Genres: Fighting, Arcade

Platforms: Arcade

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Tekken 3 is the third installment in the Tekken series.

Super Stardust HD

Released: Jun 28, 2007

Critic rating: 83.3 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Shooter, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 3

Game modes: Single player, Co-operative

Super Stardust HD is a downloadable game for the PlayStation 3 video game console, developed by the Finnish company Housemarque.

Resogun

Released: Nov 15, 2013

Critic rating: 85.9 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Shooter, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Resogun is a shoot 'em up game.

Mullet Madjack

Released: May 15, 2024

Critic rating: 89.7 / 100

Rating: M

Genres: Shooter, Adventure, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player

Mullet Madjack is a single-player fast-paced FPS that brings you directly inside a classic anime.

Velocity 2X

Released: Sep 2, 2014

Critic rating: 80.5 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Shooter, Platform, Puzzle, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player

This critically acclaimed sequel to Velocity Ultra weaves together two classic game formats into one seamless adventure, featuring puzzle-platforming action alongside award-winning top-down shoot 'em-up gameplay!

Burnout Legends

Released: Sep 13, 2005

Critic rating: 92.5 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Racing, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation Portable

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Burnout: Legends takes the most explosive moments of the popular Burnout series of racing games, mashes them together and adds some new surprises -- giving you the best racing experience to come out for the DS.

Duck Game

Released: May 13, 2014

Critic rating: 83.3 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Shooter, Platform, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Ouya, PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory.

Distance

Released: Sep 18, 2018

Critic rating: 90.0 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Racing, Adventure, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

Distance is a survival racing game that combines the intense action of arcade racing with the exploration of an atmospheric world.

Yoku's Island Express

Released: May 29, 2018

Critic rating: 84.5 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Pinball, Adventure, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player

Yoku’s Island Express is an open world/metroidvania-style pinball adventure, Seamlessly blending platform navigation with pinball mechanics across a large open world.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

Released: Nov 7, 2003

Critic rating: 85.0 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Racing, Arcade

Platforms: Nintendo GameCube

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

The Mushroom Kingdom just got a whole lot more hectic as Mario and friends double up for furious kart racing.

Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom

Released: Jun 21, 1991

Critic rating: 83.9 / 100 • 45 votes

Rating: E

Genres: Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Arcade

Platforms: Arcade, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Family Computer, Wii U, Nintendo Entertainment System

Game modes: Single player

Thrilling new cinema screen!

Alien vs. Predator

Released: May 20, 1994

Critic rating: 83.9 / 100 • 41 votes

Genres: Shooter, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Arcade

Platforms: Arcade

Game modes: Single player, Co-operative

Alien vs.

Huntdown

Released: May 12, 2020

Critic rating: 82.0 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Shooter, Platform, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

Challenge yourself in this hard-boiled arcade shooter.

Castle Crashers Remastered

Released: Sep 9, 2015

Critic rating: 80.0 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this Remastered edition of the popular 2D arcade adventure Castle Crashers!

The World Ends with You

Released: Jul 26, 2007

Critic rating: 91.0 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Arcade

Platforms: Nintendo DS

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer

In the game, Neku Sakuraba and his allies are forced to participate in a game that will determine their fate.

Bejeweled

Released: May 30, 2001

Critic rating: 100.0 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Arcade

Platforms: Windows Mobile, Palm OS, BlackBerry OS, Xbox, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac

Game modes: Single player

Bejeweled is a tile-matching puzzle video game by PopCap Games, first developed for browsers in 2001.

TagPro

Released: Feb 1, 2013

Critic rating: 83.6 / 100 • 180 votes

Genres: Strategy, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: Web browser, Android

Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative

TagPro is a free-to-play online multiplayer capture the flag video game originally designed and programmed by Nick Riggs.

Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies

Released: Sep 13, 2001

Critic rating: 83.5 / 100 • 36 votes

Rating: E

Genres: Simulator, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 2

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies is an aerial combat simulation.

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Released: Jun 21, 2019

Critic rating: 82.6 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Racing, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is a kart racing game developed by Beenox and published by Activision.

Tetris 99

Released: Feb 13, 2019

Critic rating: 84.0 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Puzzle, Arcade

Platforms: Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Multiplayer, Battle Royale

A blockbuster battle royale!

WarioWare: Twisted!

Released: Oct 14, 2004

Critic rating: 90.0 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Puzzle, Arcade

Platforms: Game Boy Advance

Game modes: Single player

After accidentally discovering spin technology, Wario reassembles the developers at WarioWare, Inc.

The Messenger

Released: Aug 30, 2018

Critic rating: 87.0 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie, Arcade

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan's survival.