Best Arcade games on PC
Games centered on immediate, repeatable action with controls and rules that are quick to understand. They often emphasize reflexes, timing, competition, or improving performance across repeated attempts.
- Fast, reaction-focused gameplay
- Straightforward controls and objectives
- Repeatable challenges and competition
Related: Action, Racing, Multiplayer, Fighting
3,912 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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DEFRAG
Incremental bullet-hell combat with weapon modules and nodes to combine
93% positive
568 reviews
SAMURAI SHODOWN V SPECIAL / サムライスピリッツ零スペシャル
2D weapon fighter with high-damage hits and finishing moves
90% positive
566 reviews
Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix
Arcade kart racing with Nickelodeon characters and customizable pit crews
83% positive
566 reviews
X Invader
Top-down horde shooter with randomized builds and fifteen-minute runs
74% positive
566 reviews
Demo Noitu Love 2: Devolution
A side-scrolling beat 'em up with mouse-controlled combat
92% positive
565 reviews
Demo Star Survivor
Top-down space survival shooter with directional weapons and deckbuilding
68% positive
565 reviews
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
Arcade BASE jumping where near misses earn you points
82% positive
564 reviews
Demo THE IMPOSSIBLE
A perspective puzzle game about finding paths through impossible geometry
88% positive
563 reviews
Zombie Builder Defense
Top-down zombie shooter with defenses you build between waves
68% positive
Free
The Chef's Shift: First Course
A restaurant management game driven by typing under time pressure
98% positive
Free
Keyboard Killers
Typing arcade game where quick keystrokes destroy incoming meteors
50% positive
Free
The Odyssey: Winds of Athena
Top-down physics puzzles about guiding ships with wind and currents
62% positive
557 reviews
Untitled Ghost Game
Top-down ghost hunting with equipment, environmental clues, and online co-op
90% positive
Free
Little Racers STREET
Arcade street racing with drifting and weather that changes handling
84% positive
555 reviews
Larva Mortus
Top-down horror shooter with randomized missions and stat upgrades
76% positive
554 reviews
Ball-it Hell
Top-down arcade bullet hell where you bat bullets back
95% positive
554 reviews
Beat Da Beat
A bullet-hell shooter with enemy attacks synced to dubstep
93% positive
551 reviews
Lazerbait
VR real-time strategy about capturing planets to grow your fleets
97% positive
Free
Castle of no Escape 2
Action roguelite where defeating minibosses unlocks more playable characters
76% positive
Free
My Friend Stalin
A desktop companion that dances while you use other programs
91% positive
551 reviews
Demo Leaf Blower Man: This Game Blows!
Arcade action with a leaf blower and neighbors to annoy
88% positive
Free
The Local
First-person parkour with rail grinding, wall running, and bunny hopping
95% positive
Free
Battle Ball
Top-down arcade dodgeball with explosions and short competitive matches
86% positive
Free
NVL
Anime RPG with turn-based combat and a female traveling companion
67% positive
548 reviews