Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned…
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is an adventure developed by Fiction Factory Games, released 27 May 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is an adventure game developed by Fiction Factory Games and released in 2022. It was published by PQube. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on renpy.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the distant future year 20XX, an alternate timeline where arcades never went away... you're an aspiring gamer searching for esports glory on the Fist of Discomfort 2 Pro Tour. Seeking a partner to play with, you join a team of players who hang out at Good Clean Fun, a combination pizzeria / laundromat / arcade. It's up to you to rally the team, learning more about who they are and how best to support their dreams along the way. Defeat rivals, conquer tournaments, build relationships, and uncover a strange arcade conspiracy as your team walks the road to victory!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 26 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers launched on 27 May 2022, within three weeks of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Neon White and The Quarry. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Neon White, The Quarry.
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
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