Arcadecraft
Firebase Industries Ltd. · 2014 · Indie, Casual, Simulation, Strategy, Management
PC
Mixed64% · 91
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About Arcadecraft
Enter the exciting world of Arcade ownership! Play through the start of the 1980's arcade revolution by buying and placing video games for your customers to play! Customize your arcade to increase its popularity! Modify machine parameters, manage your finances, capitalize on newly released games, but beware of the events and pitfalls that could bankrupt you!
Features:
Over 100 unique arcade machines to buy and place in your arcade.
Machines come in Standup, Cocktail, Sitdown, Import, and Pinball configurations.
Multiple game genres include Shooter, Platformer, Action, Sports, Racing, Maze, Fighting, Pinball, and Puzzle.
Customize the colors of the Walls, Pillars, Floor, and neon of your arcade.
Buy seasonal decorations for short term popularity boosts.
Hire an employee to help empty cash from machines.
Twelve playable characters to choose from.
Variety of events from broken machines, jammed coin slots, and blackouts.
Visitors such as the Game Collector, Import Salesman, and Super Gamer.
6 Hours of gameplay simulating the rise, fall, and rebirth of the arcade between 1980-1986.
16:9 resolution support between 1280x720 to 1920x1080
Xbox Gamepad, Mouse, and Keyboard support.
Features:
Over 100 unique arcade machines to buy and place in your arcade.
Machines come in Standup, Cocktail, Sitdown, Import, and Pinball configurations.
Multiple game genres include Shooter, Platformer, Action, Sports, Racing, Maze, Fighting, Pinball, and Puzzle.
Customize the colors of the Walls, Pillars, Floor, and neon of your arcade.
Buy seasonal decorations for short term popularity boosts.
Hire an employee to help empty cash from machines.
Twelve playable characters to choose from.
Variety of events from broken machines, jammed coin slots, and blackouts.
Visitors such as the Game Collector, Import Salesman, and Super Gamer.
6 Hours of gameplay simulating the rise, fall, and rebirth of the arcade between 1980-1986.
16:9 resolution support between 1280x720 to 1920x1080
Xbox Gamepad, Mouse, and Keyboard support.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players have mixed feelings about Arcadecraft, with nostalgia being the primary appeal for those who enjoy it. However, most agree the game lacks depth and longevity—it becomes repetitive and financially trivial within an hour or two, devolving into mindless coin-collecting once you've acquired the largest arcade and maxed upgrades. The actual gameplay involves minimal strategy or meaningful decisions, making it feel more like a passive idle game than an engaging management sim.
The only part I don't like is novelty wears off on arcade units very drastically. It shouldn't make a difference on novelty, because even an old machine (ex: Space Invaders) may prove still as fun and popular than, say, Virtua Fighter.
Loved this game on the 360 and love it here. Basically, its a series of really good and satisfying mechanics that really appeals to kids of the 80s like me when these arcades were everywhere. For the most part, there's a great sense of progression... until there isn't. As other reviewers have alluded to, this feels more like a brilliant demo with a promise of more to come. unfortunately it never did, and that's this game's downfall. We live in hope that the devs one day pick it up and blast us with more!
TLDR: Slowly go broke simulator. I can do that in real life. There are very few things you can actually do in this game, it's a lot of sitting around with very little control to affect the outcome of what is happening in the game. If that's your jam, go for it.
You may find yourself enjoying your time with Arcadecraft, but it won't be for very long. After about an hour or so, you'll have seen everything the game has to offer, likely bought all of the available upgrades, and will simply be watching the numbers go up. While a lot of effort was put into creating the various arcade machines, there just isn't a lot of meat on the bones here.
Nostalgia seems to be the draw here. And for a while that Nostalgia can be enjoyable. As new games become available there is a little fun in trying to recognize what actual arcade game is being parodied and trying to own sets of games and their sequels as a more personal goal, more-so than for the bonus in game. But when that nostalgia runs out (and it will quickly) then all you are left with is the game play, which just comes down to something that is fast-paced but barely challenging. By the time you have advanced to the second year you can easily already have the largest arcade available and you're making more money than you know what to do with. From there its just going from machine-to-machine to empty them of coins and repair them quickly. When new games come out you just swap them with older games that aren't popular. Aside from a few achievements to get in the game, there isn't really much to do past 1982, and this game ends at 1987. Yes you can keep playing past that point, but if you do there are no longer any new games to purchase so the game doesn't even have that to keep you motivated anymore. An update would have been wonderful to address these problems, but as this …
A BANGER of a game that came from the Xbox Live Indie Arcade.
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