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

MultiVersus - a game in the Arcade genre

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...

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...

Forgotten Hill Tales

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Horror

Game released: PC → 27 April 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Forgotten Hill Tales is an arcade puzzle horror game with a first-person view. The game will delight you with a series of exciting and atmospheric stories with many...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

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

Game released: PC → 16 June 2022

Players: 6.9/10

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...

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...

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...

Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course

Arcade, Action, DLC, Beat them all, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC → 30 June 2022

Players: 7.3/10

Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course — an expansion for the hardcore side-scrolling action-platformer, designed in the style of classic 1930s animation. The story...

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...

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...

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...

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Adventure, Platformer, Arcade, Action, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: PC → 27 October 2022

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a spin-off of the LittleBigPlanet series, dedicated to sackboy — a small toy man. The game is a 2.5D platformer in which sackboy...

The King of Fighters 15

Arcade, Fighting, Side view

Game released: PC → 17 February 2022

Metacritic: 79/100

The King of Fighters 15 is a continuation of the popular series of side-scrolling 3D fighting games. Games from this series have already visited almost all...

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+

Arcade, Music game, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 26 May 2022

Players: 7.1/10

Musical rhythm arcade game about anime girls. Hatsune Miku and her friends will once again have to compete for the title of the best pop star in the world. The main...

Girlfight 2024

Action, Fighting, Side view, Arcade, Futurism (Future), Adult game

Early Access: PC → 16 September 2021; Game released: PC → 25 February 2022

Girlfight 2024 is a fast-paced side-scrolling fighting game for adults that will offer you one-on-one fights with sexy girls as playable characters. Features...

DNF Duel

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

Game released: PC → 28 June 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Fighting game set in the Dungeon Fighter Online universe. The game features 16 characters with unique skills and personalities, 8 battle arenas, and 7 diverse...

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...

Blackwind

Action, Futurism (Future), Isometric, Combat robots, Slasher, Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 20 January 2022

Players: 10/10

Blackwind is a dynamic action-slasher about combat robots with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place on the mining colony...

Sandbox

Arcade, God Simulator, Puzzle, Logic

Game released: PC → 23 November 2022

Players: 8.1/10

Sandbox is an arcade god simulator with puzzle elements. Imagine creating your own 8-bit pixel world, playing with humans, ninjas, robots or zombies, composing your...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ravenous Devils

Business / Management, Side view, Horror, Simulation, Arcade

Game released: PC → 29 April 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Ravenous Devils is an atmospheric culinary simulator with horror elements, where you will manage a pub and an atelier that keep a dark secret. Percival and Hildred...

Redout 2

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

Game released: PC → 16 June 2022

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Redout 2 is a continuation of a dynamic arcade racing game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. Expect action-packed racing across a post-apocalyptic...

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...

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...

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...

SpiderHeck

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Cyberpunk, Futurism (Future), Action

Game released: PC → 22 September 2022

Players: 7.8/10

SpiderHeck is a minimalistic side-scrolling arcade fighting game where you take on the role of a spider with a laser sword. In the game you can fight in a hurricane...

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R

Arcade, Fighting, Anime / Manga, Side view

Game released: PC → 2 September 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 74/100

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is a remaster of the 2013 fighting game of the same name based on the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The game features...

Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef

Arcade, Side view, Futurism (Future), Online, Fantasy, Adventure, Platformer, Shooter, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 20 October 2022

Players: 6/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef — a dynamic side-scrolling platformer-shooter set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe from the creators of Guns, Gore &...

Conan Chop Chop

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 1 March 2022

Metacritic: 72/100

Conan Chop Chop is a fun arcade action game with an isometric camera view in the Conan the Barbarian universe. An exciting single player mode and local co-op for 4...

Car Detailing Simulator

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Arcade, First-person view

Game released: PC → 13 April 2022

Car Detailing Simulator is an arcade indie simulator with management elements and a first-person view. In this game you will find an exciting adventure and your own...

Never BreakUp

Arcade, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Puzzle, Third-person view

Early Access: PC → 27 September 2018; Game released: PC → 15 July 2022

Never BreakUp is a fun cooperative 3D platformer with a third-person view. In the game you have to play as cute little ball animals that are connected to each other...

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...

Rumbleverse

Action, Online, Third-person view, Comics, Arcade, Fighting, Free game

Game released: PC → 11 August 2022

Players: 9.1/10

Rumbleverse is a free-to-play multiplayer arcade action game in the battle royale genre with a third-person view and fighting game elements. The game takes place in...

Shovel Knight Dig

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy, Old school, Medieval era, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 23 September 2022

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 83/100

A fast-paced action platformer with roguelike elements set in the Shovel Knight universe. Shovel Knight embarks on a new adventure, digging ever deeper in search of...

Blast Brigade vs. the Evil Legion of Dr. Cread

Arcade, Side view, Comics, Adventure, Action, Platformer

Early Access: PC → 14 October 2021; Game released: PC → 13 April 2022

Players: 10/10

Blast Brigade vs. the Evil Legion of Dr. Cread is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer that follows the adventures of secret agents. In the story, world...

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Best Games in the Arcade genre of 2022 for PC