Arcade 2016 for PlayStation 4 — top best games in the Arcade genre

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 1 March 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Broforce is a brutal 2D platformer full of pure, unadulterated fun that requires the player to destroy everything that moves in order to defeat the Satanic...

LEGO Marvel's Avengers

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Open world, Adventure, Online

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 January 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

LEGO Marvel's Avengers is an arcade platformer with a third-person view. The events of the game will recreate the plot of the first two parts of the popular...

Enter the Gungeon

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Beat them all, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 April 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Enter the Gungeon is a top-down arcade shooter from the developers at Dodge Roll. The roguelike takes place in the ever-changing fortress of Gungeon, which is a...

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Fighting

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 9 February 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 is a third-person arcade game with a touch of action and fantasy from the studio CyberConnect2. The game is published by...

Unravel

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 9 February 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Unravel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure with various puzzles. The platformer will tell the story of a knitted man — Yarny, who stretches like a ball with...

Job Simulator

Arcade, Simulation, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Virtual Reality (VR), Horror

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 13 October 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Job Simulator is an arcade physics-based simulator for Oculus Rift, SteamVR and PlayStation VR virtual reality devices. Players will have to take the place of an...

Street Fighter 5

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Action, Online

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 16 February 2016

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Street Fighter 5 is a side-scrolling arcade fighting game in the popular Street Fighter series. In a simple and understandable form, the game will introduce you to...

Overcooked

Action, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Online, Indie, Arcade

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 3 August 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Overcooked is an exciting action strategy where you and your friends will have to learn the basics of culinary art in various and unusual locations. With your...

Yakuza Kiwami

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 29 August 2017

Players: 7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A remake of the original third-person action adventure Yakuza, released on PlayStation 2 in 2005. The game tells the story of a man named Kazuma Kiryu, who was one...

Risk of Rain

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 April 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Risk of Rain is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view and roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will take you to a distant...

LEGO Harry Potter Collection

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Collection, Puzzle, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 October 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A collection of two games that recreate the magical world of Harry Potter in LEGO style, covering all seven books and eight films. Players are immersed in a journey...

Inside

Arcade, Platformer, Logic, Side view, Horror, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 23 August 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Inside is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer with survival elements from the creators of Limbo. The plot centers on a lonely boy who is hiding from...

Crypt of the NecroDancer

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Music game, Tactics, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 2 February 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Crypt of the NecroDancer is a unique indie game where everything moves to the rhythm of the music of Danny Baranowski, the composer of Super Meat Boy and the...

Alien Shooter

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 March 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Alien Shooter is a dynamic shooter with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting. Endless darkness and gloomy, long passages of a military complex that became...

Mother Russia Bleeds

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Side view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 3 December 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Mother Russia Bleeds is a side-scrolling arcade action game. You advance through the level, destroying all enemies along the way using hand-to-hand combat and...

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 December 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This side-scrolling fantasy platformer builds its heroine’s actions around belly dancing and hair-whipping. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is an HD adventure starring...

Dragon Quest Builders

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Japanese role-playing game, Platformer

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 14 October 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Dragon Quest Builders — arcade sandbox with a third-person view in an open world in the Dragon Quest universe. The plot of the game will tell the sweet story...

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Indie, Online

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 10 May 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is an expanded version of a dynamic arcade fighting game with a side view in an anime style. The game features many interesting female...

Mortal Kombat XL

Arcade, Fighting, Collection, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Mortal Kombat XL — game collection of the popular arcade fighting game with a side view in the Mortal Kombat universe. The game takes place 25 years after...

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Star Wars, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 June 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 75/100

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is an arcade action game with a third-person view in the popular Star Wars universe. The game tells about the events that occurred...

Absolute Drift

Arcade, Racing, Top-down view, Sports game, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 23 August 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Absolute Drift is a racing arcade game that will make you a true drifting master. On each track, you must get the maximum score by smashing various objects, doing...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 December 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

The Witness

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 January 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 87/100

The Witness is an arcade adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. The action takes place on an island full of mysteries. The island is an open world where...

Last Guardian

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 7 December 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Last Guardian is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell about the relationship between a little boy and a huge...

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Replayability

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 10 May 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 85/100

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It adds over 100 hours of content, including the new...

Song of the Deep

Arcade, Adventure, Warships / Submarines, Puzzle, Side view, Metroidvania, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Song of the Deep is a side-scrolling arcade adventure. The setting was a sunken city that hides many secrets and mysteries and where the main character’s father was...

Galaga

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 April 2016

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This arcade space shooter and sequel to GALAXIAN pits a fighter craft against waves of invading aliens. The player moves the ship left and right, shoots down...

Eagle Flight

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Simulation, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 November 2016

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Eagle Flight is an arcade game with a first-person view for virtual reality devices Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, SteamVR. Players will have to go on a journey in...

Pac-Man 256

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 21 June 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Pac-Man 256 is a continuation of the popular top-down arcade game starring Pac-Man. The game is made in an unusual style: the main character is followed by a wave...

BlazBlue: Central Fiction

Arcade, Fighting, Anime / Manga, Side view, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 1 November 2016

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A 2D fighting game combined with a visual novel, BlazBlue: Central Fiction concludes the series’ Azure Saga and reveals the hidden truth of its world. The roster...

Not A Hero

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Beat them all, Action, Indie, Comedy

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 2 February 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Not A Hero is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer. Professional hitman Steve, who has become the campaign manager for mayoral candidate Bunny Lord, must...

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Arcade, Fighting, Action, Online

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 December 2016

Players: 8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is an arcade fighting game that features familiar characters from two big universes: the Marvel comic book and Capcom games. Two...

MilitAnt

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Shooter

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 July 2016

Steam: 44/100

Metacritic: 44/100

MilitAnt is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. In a world ruled by insects, a lone soldier ant must at all costs defend his home colony from the brutal...

Hue

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 August 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Hue is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. In it you have to remake the world by changing its background color. Together with a character...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Arcade, Action, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Space

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 9 February 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This co-op space shooter follows a crew exploring a colorful galaxy aboard a shared neon battleship and fighting the forces of Anti-Love. Players rescue space...

Pac-Man

Arcade, Action, Top-down view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 April 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Pac-Man is a top-down arcade action game. You have to guide Pac-Man through the maze and eat all the dots without being caught by the ghosts. You will find exciting...

Red Dead Revolver

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 11 October 2016

Players: 5.9/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Red Dead Revolver — the plot of the story begins in the 1870s. Nate Harlow and his partner "Griff" discover a large deposit of gold in an area called "Bear...

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2

Arcade, Fighting, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 25 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is a sequel to the arcade fighting game with a third-person view, Dragon Ball Xenoverse. The second part continues the story of the original...

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 9 April 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is the third part of the series, which follows the adventures of the half-genie Shantae, who tries to thwart the plans of the pirate...

Ratchet & Clank

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Action, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 April 2016

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Ratchet & Clank is a reboot of the 2002 classic game of the same name. A cute story awaits you about Lombax Ratchet and his friend, a robot named Clank. Don your...

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Best Games in the Arcade genre of 2016 for PlayStation 4