Arcade 2013 for PC — top best games in the Arcade genre

Mortal Kombat (2011)

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 18 October 2013

VGTimes: 10.0/10

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Mortal Kombat (2011) is the ninth fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series. The game is both a continuation and a restart of the franchise. The game's plot begins...

Rayman Legends

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 29 August 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Rayman Legends is a continuation of the exciting side-scrolling arcade platformer Rayman Origins. Rayman and his friends find a mysterious tent in the magical...

Need for Speed: Rivals

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Racing, Third-person view, Open world, Online

Game released: PC → 19 November 2013

VGTimes: 5.8/10

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Set in the open roads of Redview County, this arcade racing game centers on the rivalry between street racers and the police. Players can take either side: racers...

Papers, Please

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 8 August 2013

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Papers, Please is an unusual simulator of an immigration officer. You will have to sit in a small booth and check the documents of visiting residents, identify...

Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Collection, Online

Game released: PC → 7 August 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition is a complete side-scrolling edition of the arcade fighting game, which includes all the released add-ons. The game takes place 25...

Anomaly 2

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Action, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Science fiction, Isometric, Online, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 15 May 2013

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Anomaly 2 is a fantastic arcade action game with elements of tower defense and real-time strategy. Years after the 2018 invasion of Earth, the planet is overrun by...

Midnight

Arcade, Indie, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: PC → 25 July 2013

Steam: 75/100

Midnight is a unique interactive arcade game that allows you to control a colorful laser show on your monitor screen with your fingertips. The game is designed for...

Rogue Legacy

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 27 June 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Rogue Legacy is a fantasy platforming roguelite in which a hero explores procedurally generated castles and battles enemies. When a character dies, an heir takes...

Teslagrad

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PC → 13 December 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Teslagrad is an arcade quest with platformer elements and futurism style. In this game, you use the power of electromagnetism to solve puzzles and battle horrors as...

Risk of Rain

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

Game released: PC → 8 November 2013

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...

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Indie, Online

Game released: PC → 22 August 2013

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...

Spelunky

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 August 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Spelunky is a fun adventure that takes you to explore dangerous but rich mines. You will control a rather big-nosed but cute gold digger who came to the mines for...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Steampunk

Game released: PC → 5 December 2013

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 80/100

SteamWorld Dig is a charming side-scrolling arcade action-platformer about a robotic miner named Rusty, who arrives in a small town with the goal of finding...

Contrast

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 November 2013

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Contrast is a puzzle platformer that combines a three-dimensional fantasy world with a mysterious two-dimensional shadowscape. Its central mechanic is shifting...

DuckTales Remastered

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Remake

Game released: PC → 13 August 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 74/100

DuckTales Remastered is an HD remake of the cult game based on the animated series DuckTales. The game contains many restored levels from the original, as well as...

Gas Guzzlers Extreme

Arcade, Action, Racing, Third-person view, Online

Game released: PC → 8 October 2013

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Arcade combat racing combines high-speed contests with armed clashes on tracks and in arenas. Players start with a low-performance car and earn money in races and...

The Swapper

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 30 May 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in a sci-fi setting. In this game, a lone astronaut will explore a cave created by aliens. In order to get to its secrets...

Mercenary Kings

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 22 July 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Mercenary Kings is a side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer similar to games like SNK's Metal Slug series. Players can jump, crouch, roll, shoot in four directions...

Thunder Wolves

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Helicopters, Arcade

Game released: PC → 16 May 2013

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Thunder Wolves is an arcade air shooter with a third-person view in which you become the pilot of an attack helicopter. You will set off to conquer city blocks...

The Night of the Rabbit

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 May 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Night of the Rabbit is an atmospheric point and click adventure in which you will travel to the amazing country of Mousewood. One fine day, the boy Jerry...

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Fighting, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Platformer, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 24 May 2013

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Dust: An Elysian Tail is a 2D action-adventure platformer with role-playing elements and a side view in a fantasy setting. A colorful world awaits you, filled with...

Kentucky Route Zero

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 86/100

A mystical adventure with a side view and a unique graphic design. The main character Conway travels to Kentucky to deliver a package. Upon arrival, it is...

World of Warplanes

Simulation, Action, MMO, Flight Simulator, In real time, First-person view, Third-person view, Shooter, Arcade

Game released: PC → 13 November 2013; Beta testing: PC → 2 July 2013

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 69/100

World of Warplanes is a free-to-play multiplayer flight simulator dedicated to air combat in a historical setting. You will be able to feel like a real ace and fly...

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Arcade, Racing, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Online

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is a racing arcade game with a third-person view. In the game, the legendary Sonic the Hedgehog will have to make every effort...

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Action, Shooter, Simulation, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Helicopters, Arcade

Game released: PC → 25 January 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 48/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon — the game begins in Miami. The Warwolf fighter squadron, under the command of US Air Force Colonel William Bishop (Warwolf-1...

Halo: Spartan Assault

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Top-down view

Game released: PC → 18 July 2013

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 62/100

A dynamic shooter set in the year 2554, between Halo 3 and Halo 4. Some 30 missions against the Covenant reveal the early operations of Sarah Palmer and Edward...

Volgarr the Viking

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 September 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Volgarr the Viking is a hardcore arcade platformer in which the Viking hero fights enemies and navigates deadly traps across a series of dangerous worlds. The game...

Alien Spidy

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 20 March 2013

Players: 4.6/10

Steam: 51/100

Metacritic: 55/100

This arcade platformer follows Spidy, an alien who travels to Earth to find his missing explorer friend, Virgi. After his spacecraft breaks apart in the planet’s...

The Bridge

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Bridge is a two-dimensional logic game that will allow you to look at physics and perspective from a different angle. You have to walk on the ceiling, explore...

Urban Trial Freestyle

Arcade, Third-person view, Stunts, Motorcycle racing, Racing, Sports game, Action

Game released: PC → 18 September 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Urban Trial Freestyle is a racing arcade game with a side view, where you have to do various tricks on a motorcycle. You have to race along 20 different tracks...

Rocksmith 2014

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Music game

Game released: PC → 24 October 2013

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 87/100

A music-learning game that lets players connect an electric guitar or bass to their system and learn to play using the Rocksmith Method. The instrument itself is...

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

Role-playing game, Arcade, Hack and slash, In real time, Isometric, Collection, Action

Game released: PC → 18 June 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This arcade action game with role-playing elements brings together reworked versions of Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow...

Joe Danger 2: The Movie

Arcade, Racing, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 24 June 2013

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This arcade stunt game follows Joe Danger as he performs daredevil feats on the set of a blockbuster movie. Across 100 levels, he pursues crooks on a police bike...

Air Conflicts: Vietnam

Arcade, Action, Flight Simulator, Helicopters, Simulation

Game released: PC → 2 October 2013

Players: 6/10

Steam: 36/100

Metacritic: 43/100

An arcade flight simulator with action elements, Air Conflicts: Vietnam is set during the Vietnam War. Its story follows US Navy pilot Joe Thompson, while the “Lost...

Guacamelee!

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Logic, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 8 August 2013

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Guacamelee! is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. The plot revolves around the brave Mexican Juan Agacata, who must save the daughter of the President of...

Let's Sing

Arcade, Music game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 50/100

This karaoke arcade game lets players perform songs by well-known pop and rock artists, with voice recognition evaluating their singing. Songs can be performed solo...

Game of Life

Arcade, Board / Group Game, Logic

Game released: PC → 10 June 2013

Steam: 72/100

Game of Life is an arcade game from developers from the Electronic Arts studio. The game is published by Electronic...

Trine 2: Complete Story

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Logic, Cooperative (co-op), Puzzle

Game released: PC → 6 June 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Trine 2: Complete Story is a complete edition of the atmospheric action platformer with a side view in the fantasy setting of Trine 2, which contains all previously...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 4 October 2013

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in this house...

Warside

Arcade, Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, Platformer, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 25 October 2013

Steam: 68/100

Warside — The game is role-playing in nature due to the ability to modify your characters. You will be able to create unique fighters with unique weapons...

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Best Games in the Arcade genre of 2013 for PC