Arcade 2014 for Xbox One — top best games in the Arcade genre

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: Xbox One → 18 November 2014

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploring a practically endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

Terraria

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike, Sandbox, Survival, Online

Game released: Xbox One → 14 November 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Terraria is an adventure sandbox game with platformer elements and a side view. You will embark on a colorful journey where you can create various items, build...

Rayman Legends

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

Game released: Xbox One → 18 February 2014

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: Xbox One → 26 September 2014

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...

The Crew

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

Game released: Xbox One → 2 December 2014

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 56/100

Metacritic: 65/100

The Crew is a realistic racing simulator with first and third person views. The game features one of the largest maps, the length of roads in which is more than...

Never Alone

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 18 November 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Never Alone is an arcade side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. You play as the girl Nunu and her arctic fox companion. You have to solve the mystery of an...

Child of Light

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 30 April 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Child of Light is a puzzle-platformer adventure with RPG elements and turn-based combat. The game is based on fairy tales. The events of the game tell the story of...

Trials Fusion

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Stunts, Logic, Motorcycle racing, Racing

Game released: Xbox One → 16 April 2014

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Trials Fusion is the long-awaited sequel to the popular game Trials Evolution. The game preserves and enhances the best qualities of the series. You'll be able to...

Contrast

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

Game released: Xbox One → 26 June 2014

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...

Rocksmith 2014

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Music game

Game released: Xbox One → 4 November 2014

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...

Zombie Driver

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Racing, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Sports game

Game released: Xbox One → 24 June 2014

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Zombie Driver is a whirlwind racing action game with a top-down view in the dangerous world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to travel around a city inhabited by...

Volgarr the Viking

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 31 October 2014

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...

Puyo Puyo Tetris

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Online

Game released: Xbox One → 4 December 2014

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Puyo Puyo Tetris is a combination of two popular puzzle games where you have to challenge your opponent. Ten unique stories await you, in each of which you will...

LEGO The Hobbit

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

Game released: Xbox One → 8 April 2014

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 71/100

LEGO The Hobbit is an arcade action adventure game with a third-person view in the Lord of the Rings universe. The events of the game cover the first two films in...

Stick it to the Man

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 28 August 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Stick it to the Man is a side-scrolling adventure arcade platformer. The game's plot tells the story of a safety helmet tester named Rey. One day the hero wakes up...

Jet Car Stunts

Arcade, Racing, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Casual game, Sports game

Game released: Xbox One → 7 October 2014

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 61/100

An arcade racing game about driving jet-powered cars through tracks filled with challenging stunts. Jet Car Stunts focuses on time-based runs: the player learns...

Threes!

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row), Roguelike

Game released: Xbox One → 5 December 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 92/100

A minimalist and colorful puzzle where simple rules give birth to unexpected depth. On the playing field, you need to connect tiles with numbers to create ever...

Jackbox Party Pack

Arcade, Board / Group Game, Casual game, Trivia, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 2 June 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Jackbox Party Pack is a fun, arcade game for a large group. Using your mobile devices and computer, you have to play simple, uncomplicated games with your friends...

1001 Spikes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 10 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This arcade platformer with puzzle elements follows Aban Hawkins as he searches the ruins of Ukampa in South America for his missing father, archaeologist Jim...

Skylanders Trap Team

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Free game

Game released: Xbox One → 5 October 2014

Players: 5.6/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Skylanders Trap Team is a free-to-play action-adventure platformer with a third-person view. The game takes place in the colorful fantasy world of Skylands. The...

Strider

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Metroidvania

Game released: Xbox One → 19 February 2014

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Strider is a re-release of the legendary action-platformer with slasher elements and a side view, released in 1989. The game takes place in the future, where one of...

Chariot

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 1 October 2014

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Chariot is a side-scrolling adventure co-op puzzle platformer set in a fantasy setting. Together with a friend, you will have to try on the roles of a beautiful...

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 12 December 2014

Players: 5.4/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer that is the spiritual successor to 1987's Great Giana Sisters for the Commodore 64...

Rabbids Invasion

Arcade, First-person view, Third-person view, Board / Group Game

Game released: Xbox One → 20 November 2014

Metacritic: 53/100

An interactive television show featuring the Rabbids, built around interaction with on-screen events. Players perform actions tied to the events in the show, which...

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view

Game released: Xbox One → 26 November 2014

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions is a top-down arcade action game. In this game you will find: more than 100 levels, including 40 completely new ones; classic game modes...

Kinect Sports Rivals

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Sports game

Game released: Xbox One → 11 April 2014

Metacritic: 60/100

Kinect Sports Rivals — interactive sports arcade game for the Kinect contactless touch controller. You can try to become a champion of virtual competitions in...

Super TIME Force

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Shooter

Game released: Xbox One → 14 May 2014

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Super TIME Force is a platform shooter in which a fighter battles across different eras and manipulates time. The player can rewind events and choose when to return...

Pinball FX2

Arcade, Simulation, Isometric, Pinball

Game released: Xbox One → 14 August 2014

Metacritic: 86/100

Pinball FX2 is a continuation of the top-down arcade pinball simulator. You can expect improved visuals, many new interactive elements on the tables, an advanced...

Flockers

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Strategy, Action

Game released: Xbox One → 19 September 2014

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 64/100

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Dance Central Spotlight

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Music game

Game released: Xbox One → 2 September 2014

Metacritic: 74/100

Dance Central Spotlight — educational musical arcade game. As in previous installments in the franchise, players must mirror the dancer's dance routine on...

Tetris Ultimate

Arcade, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Xbox One → 16 December 2014

Players: 5/10

Steam: 32/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Tetris Ultimate is the return of the iconic side-scrolling arcade puzzle game Tetris. The game has six game modes and multiplayer, which can take up to four people...

Trials Fusion: Welcome to the Abyss

Arcade, DLC, Futurism (Future), Motorcycle racing, Racing

Game released: Xbox One → 7 October 2014

Steam: 100/100

Trials Fusion: Welcome to the Abyss is an add-on for the side-scrolling arcade racing game Trials Fusion. The add-on will give you the opportunity to try out ten...

Kalimba

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Casual game

Game released: Xbox One → 17 December 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Kalimba is a platforming adventure about totems journeying from the underworld to the heavens to restore light to an island plunged into darkness by an evil shaman...

Killer Instinct: Season 2

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game

Game released: Xbox One → 23 September 2014

Killer Instinct: Season 2 is an action, fighting, fantasy and free-to-play arcade game from Iron Galaxy Studios. The game is published by Microsoft Game Studios...

Divekick

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 8 October 2014

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Divekick is a two-button fighting game with no directional-pad movement. Players choose when to jump and dive into an attack, aiming to land the first hit: that...

Just Dance 2015

Arcade, Music game

Game released: Xbox One → 24 October 2014

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 71/100

This music arcade game has players dance along to popular songs by following the moves on screen. Just Dance 2015 features more than 40 tracks, from current hits...

Trials Fusion: Riders of the Rustlands

Arcade, DLC, Futurism (Future), Motorcycle racing, Racing

Game released: Xbox One → 29 July 2014

An expansion for Trials Fusion set beyond the elevated city region, among people who have been forgotten by the government. In a lawless environment, they survive...

Trials Fusion: Empire of the Sky

Arcade, DLC, Futurism (Future), Motorcycle racing, Racing

Game released: Xbox One → 19 August 2014

Steam: 66/100

Trials Fusion: Empire of the Sky is an arcade game with motorcycle simulator elements from the masters from the studios RedLynx, Ubisoft Kiev and Ubisoft Shanghai...

Shape Up

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Sports game

Game released: Xbox One → 13 November 2014

Shape Up is an arcade game with a mixture of educational game and sports game from developers from the Ubisoft Montreal studio. The main publisher of the game is...

Xbox Fitness

Arcade, Simulation, Educational game (Education)

Game released: Xbox One → 22 November 2013

Xbox Fitness is an arcade with a mixture of simulator and educational game from the masters from the Sumo Digital studio. The game is published by Microsoft Game...

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Best Games in the Arcade genre of 2014 for Xbox One (Game released)