Arcade 2022 for PC — top best games in the Arcade genre

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

Arcade, Side view, Futurism (Future), Comics, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 16 June 2022

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is an arcade side-scrolling retro co-op beat 'em up fighting game set in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe...

Disney Dreamlight Valley

Arcade, Adventure, Third-person view, Sandbox, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 5 December 2023

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 70/100

A colorful adventure sandbox that combines elements of life simulation and exploration in the world of Disney and Pixar. Once a thriving Valley, it has been...

Rogue: Genesia

Action, Indie, Top-down view, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Fantasy, Arcade, Casual game, Survival

Early Access: PC → 19 September 2022; Game released: PC → 7 March 2025

Players: 9.1/10

An arcade action roguelike where the world is completely drowning in hordes of enemies. Hundreds and thousands of monsters, bosses, chaos - all this in a fantasy...

Need for Speed Unbound

Arcade, Racing, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Open world

Game released: PC → 2 December 2022

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Need for Speed Unbound is a continuation of a series of arcade racing games with a third-person view. The new part radically changes the style: all the characters...

Slime Rancher 2

Arcade, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Fantasy

Early Access: PC → 22 September 2022; Game released: PC → 23 September 2025

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 76/100

New adventures of adventurer Beatrix LeBeau. The heroine travels to Rainbow Island, a mysterious land filled with ancient technology, unknown natural resources and...

Rogue Legacy 2

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

Early Access: PC → 19 August 2020; Game released: PC → 28 April 2022

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 89/100

One day, a brave knight gets to a mysterious place where some kind of devilry happened many years ago. Skeletons, ghosts and other evil spirits roam everywhere, and...

The Tenants

Simulation, Indie, Business / Management, Isometric, Third-person view, Arcade

Early Access: PC → 25 March 2021; Game released: PC → 20 October 2022

The Tenants is a fun simulation game with management strategy elements and an isometric camera view. In the game, you will try on the role of a venerable landlord...

Tap Ninja

Side view, Arcade, Roguelike, Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 March 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Tap Ninja is an adventure arcade clicker with role-playing elements and a side view in a medieval setting. In the game you have to try on the role of a warlike...

MultiVersus

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Online, Side view

Beta testing: PC → 19 July 2022; Game released: PC → 28 May 2024

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Dynamic action function with the side of the side, in which you are offered to play for popular heroes from films and cartoons Warner Bros. The battles in the game...

Police Simulator: Patrol Officers

Arcade, Action, Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view

Early Access: PC → 17 June 2021; Game released: PC → 10 November 2022

Players: 6.8/10

A police simulator set in an open world, taking place in the fictional American city of Brighton. The game allows players to experience the daily work of a patrol...

Souldiers

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

Game released: PC → 2 June 2022

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Souldiers is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. Together with other fighters fighting for the glory of their kingdom, you...

Have a Nice Death

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

Game released: PC → 22 March 2023; Early Access: PC → 8 March 2022

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

The main character is the mortally bored director Death, whose subordinates have completely lost their shores and turned the balance of the coming and going of...

Dwarf Fortress

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 8 August 2006

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 93/100

Dwarf Fortress — in the main mode, the player indirectly controls a group of dwarves, trying to build an underground fortress in a procedurally generated...

Soda Crisis

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Runner

Game released: PC → 24 May 2022

Players: 9/10

Soda Crisis is a side-scrolling action-platformer with a sci-fi setting. You play as a mysterious character of unknown origin, armed with advanced high-tech...

Warstride Challenges

Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Arcade

Early Access: PC → 19 April 2022; Game released: PC → 7 September 2023

Players: 10/10

A dynamic old-school shooter where players destroy demons as quickly as possible. The game features short but challenging levels, as well as brutal time-based...

Immortal Life

Strategy, Isometric, Business / Management, Simulation, Role-playing game, Arcade

Early Access: PC → 28 April 2022; Game released: PC → 18 January 2024

Players: 7.6/10

A fascinating life simulator in which the restoration of the destroyed sect Guyun is intertwined with the spiritual improvement and search for immortality. The hero...

WWE 2K22

Arcade, Fighting, Sports game, Wrestling

Game released: PC → 11 March 2022

Players: 5.3/10

Metacritic: 75/100

WWE 2K22 is a continuation of the series of popular wrestling simulators licensed by...

Infernax

Arcade, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 14 February 2022

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Infernax is a side-scrolling action-adventure RPG in a fantasy setting. The main character is a brave knight who returned to his homeland to defeat monsters caused...

Ghost Song

Arcade, Side view, Metroidvania, Science fiction, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Horror, Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 3 November 2022

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Ghost Song is an action-adventure platformer in the metroidvania genre with a side view in a dark post-apocalyptic setting. On the desert moon of Lorian, the...

Rogue Tower

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 28 January 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Rogue Tower is an arcade strategy game in the tower defense genre with roguelike elements and an isometric camera view in a medieval setting. Unlock new towers and...

Peglin

Arcade, Adventure, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy

Early Access: PC → 25 April 2022; Game released: PC → 27 August 2024

Players: 9.4/10

A pachinko-style roguelike where every attack turns into a thrilling collision of balls and pins. The game revolves around collecting an arsenal of special balls...

Kao the Kangaroo

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

Game released: PC → 27 May 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Kao the Kangaroo is a reboot of the popular series of arcade action platformers about Kao the Kangaroo. This time the hero will have to find his missing sister and...

River City Girls 2

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

Game released: PC → 14 December 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 77/100

River City Girls 2 is a continuation of the exciting retro arcade action game with a side view. The events of the game will take you to the dangerous streets of...

Islets

Arcade, Side view, Adventure, Metroidvania, Platformer, Fantasy, Action, Open world

Game released: PC → 24 August 2022

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Islets is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with Metroidvania elements in a fantasy setting. Aiko is an aspiring warrior who explores the skies and earth...

Madshot

Adventure, Arcade, Side view, Action, Platformer, Roguelike, Mysticism / Supernatural, Fantasy

Early Access: PC → 9 June 2022; Game released: PC → 18 July 2023

Action roguelike, set in a Lovecraftian horror setting. Cthulhu swallowed up an entire city. The only thing left for you as the main character is to destroy the...

Wildcat Gun Machine

Arcade, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Action, Shooter, Combat robots

Game released: PC → 4 May 2022

Wildcat Gun Machine is a dynamic shooter with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting. An incredible attraction awaits you, full of explosions and fun. You...

Sonic Origins

Arcade, Side view, Platformer, Runner, Action, Collection

Game released: PC → 23 June 2022

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Sonic Origins is a collection of classic Sonic adventures that includes four classic games about the blue hedgehog: Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Sonic CD (1993...

Bear and Breakfast

Business / Management, Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Arcade, Comedy, Adventure

Game released: PC → 28 July 2022

Metacritic: 72/100

Bear and Breakfast is a real-time strategy game with RPG elements and humor. This is a resource management game. You play as a bear who wants to open a hotel in the...

Axiom Verge 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view

Game released: PC → 11 August 2021

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Axiom Verge 2 is a continuation of the side-scrolling pixel action platformer in a sci-fi setting. In the sequel you will find new characters, skills and game...

Dorfromantik

Strategy, Arcade, Indie, Isometric, Turn-based

Early Access: PC → 25 March 2021; Game released: PC → 28 April 2022

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Dorfromantik is a colorful city-building strategy with turn-based battles and an isometric camera view. You start the game with a stack of procedurally generated...

New Joe & Mac - Caveman Ninja

Side view, Platformer, Arcade, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: PC → 2 December 2022

Remake of the classic platformer Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja from 1991. One night, people from one tribe stole all the women from another tribe. Cro-Magnons Joe...

Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising

Business / Management, Role-playing game, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Action, Arcade

Game released: PC → 10 May 2022

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising is a Japanese side-scrolling action RPG set in a fantasy setting. The game is a prequel to Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes and will...

Asphalt 9: Legends

Arcade, Online, Racing, Third-person view, Free game

Game released: PC → 2 August 2022

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Asphalt 9: Legends is a continuation of the arcade racing simulator with a third-person view. Significantly improved graphics await you: new effects have been...

ITORAH

Arcade, Side view, Adventure, Action, Platformer

Game released: PC → 21 March 2022

Metacritic: 61/100

ITORAH is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. In the game, you can try on the role of Itora, the only person left in the colorful...

RWBY: Arrowfell

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 15 November 2022

RWBY: Arrowfell is an arcade action platformer with slasher elements and a side view in the RWBY universe. You will play as four members of Team RWBY — Ruby...

Young Souls

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Fighting, Slasher, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 10 March 2022

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Young Souls is an arcade co-op action-slasher with role-playing elements and a side view in a fantasy setting. The events of the game will tell the story of...

Gungrave G.O.R.E

Arcade, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Action

Game released: PC → 22 November 2022

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 57/100

Gungrave G.O.R.E is an arcade action game with a third-person view in a futuristic style. The game is based on the anime series of the same name. You will get into...

Summum Aeterna

Arcade, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Roguelike, Adventure, Indie

Early Access: PC → 16 June 2022; Game released: PC → 14 September 2023

Adventure action-roguelike in a dark fantasy setting, which is a prequel to Aeterna Noctis. Taking on the role of the King of Darkness — a mighty, powerful, and...

Super Meat Boy Forever

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Action, Runner

Game released: PC → 10 January 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Continuation of the hardcore arcade runner Super Meat Boy. The game has a full story, six new chapters and twice as many bosses. Meat Boy and Band-Aid Girl try to...

GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher

Early Access: PC → 13 May 2021; Game released: PC → 17 February 2022

Metacritic: 65/100

GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon is a dynamic side-scrolling arcade action roguelike in a fantasy setting. In the game, you will act as the guardian and chosen one of the...

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Best Games in the Arcade genre of 2022 for PC