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Manage profits, pick up gum, do the laundry and get coin to unlock arcade units and flip the family laundromat business to become an Arcade Paradise!
Arcade Paradise is a adventure, arcade and management game
developed by Nosebleed Interactive
and published by Wired Productions.
Released on August 11th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,702 reviews of which 1,392 were positive and 310 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.00€ on Instant Gaming.
The Steam community has classified Arcade Paradise into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10 32bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent AMD
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 6770
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
- Additional Notes: Microsoft Xbox Controller for Windows® (or equivalent) is recommended.
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WOW!!!! After 27.7 hours I have FINALLY reached the point in the game where doing laundry is OVER! Great to see that I still have around 7 more arcade machines to BUY!! Its worth it 100% to give this game a full play-though! I've enjoyed my time with it and now I can finally focus on HIGH SCORES!!! Lots of surprises while playing too! Story was interesting. Give it a try! See what arcades were all about!
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This was probably some of the most fun I've had with a business sim in a while. Thought I was getting an okay Unity asset flip. Got a fucking banger of an arcade/laundromat sim, some solid story I wasn't expecting, banger tunes, and some really excellent arcade games. Full endorse.
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At first glance, Arcade Paradise seems like another entry into the veritable mountain of Sim-Jank titles we've come to expect from Steam's liberal view of curation. And to be sure, there will be some of that, especially when you get your first glance at what appears to be the usual collection of prefabbed assets (it's on Unity, and you can definitely tell). But if you give the game a chance, and put up with a few dozen loads of laundry for a bit, you'll find there's a bit more under the hood than expected in terms of gameplay, narrative, and the satisfaction of growing your business from a crappy laundromat to a nostalgic Arcade refuge. In the beginning of the game, you start off working in a dilapidated laundromat which happens to have a handful of arcade games in the backroom, a room that frankly looks like no customer should assume they're allowed back there. During this time your primary focus is on maintaining the laundry business, putting in loads, switching them (why aren't customers doing this themselves? What the hell is that token machine for, then?) picking up trash (they're animals), unsticking gum. and unblocking the toilet. The immediate thing you'll notice in all of this is that everything is treated like a minigame. Laundry tests your speed in completing it, gum challenges you to pull strong enough in quick succession, and the toilet has you looking for the 'sweet spot' for the most 'damaging' plunges. None of it is particularly compelling on its own but that small bit of presentation goes a long way in keeping you here longer than expected. Of course, your primary motivation is to make enough money to buy more machines and ultimately manifest your dreams of a personal arcade into reality. This creates an interesting 'work-life balance' because the primary way to make your arcade machines profitable is to play them often, and complete the goals therein. This increases their traffic and allows you to set the price and difficulty higher, owing to their popularity. But you only have so much time between loads of laundry, which will be your primary source of income for the early goings of the game. For some players, the laundry is viewed as a chore. And I'm conflicted on how to feel about that. Because I agree - laundry gets annoying, and just interrupts you from what you'd rather be doing. But at the same time, it is a literal chore. That's the point. You'd rather be playing arcade games, and you can only do so between laundry tasks, and as annoying as that can be, it adds another layer of...thrill, perhaps? It adds some thrill to the arcade gaming experience, where the otherwise simplistic games take on new urgency when you've only got maybe 2 minutes to do whatever it is you need to do with them. And ultimately you dream of the day when you don't have to do laundry at all, a primary motivator for success. In this way, the game works as intended, even if that means grumbling to yourself whenever your wristwatch (don't get me started on that damn watch) beeps WASH at you while you're trying to get those last few money stacks in Racer Chaser. The arcade games themselves are a mixed bag. They seem to span an era of roughly between 1972 and 1998 (the game itself is set in 1993, so that knockoff Dance Dance Revolution should really be blowing people's minds). Some of them are okayish, others kinda boring, and a choice few are genuinely addicting. Many of them are recognizable as being based on something more famous. Shuttlecocks is just Pong, with no real variation from the classic formula. Communists From Mars is a pretty close approximation to Missile Command. Line Terror is a somehow more annoying version of Qix (we have history). Other games are recognizable in their inspiration but with a new twist. For instance, Racer Chaser's gameplay is overwhelmingly based on Pac-Man but is thematically also inspired by Grand Theft Auto. It adds the new element that once you're caught by a cop car, you jump out of your vehicle and make a run for it to another vehicle to continue the game. Another example would be Meteor Madness, quite clearly based on Asteroids but with the added element of tasking you to grapple crystals blown out from the rocks and bring them to the delivery point. There's a pretty wide variety of games just in the base game alone, and I won't speak to the quality of the DLC games as I only purchased one, the pinball machine (Which is...fine). Somewhat surprisingly, the game has a narrative woven into all of this, surrounding your disapproving, business-tycoon father's reluctant decision to let you run his old laundromat, and your collaboration with your sister working at City Hall to help you transform the place into a thriving arcade without the old man's knowledge. The story beats are a bit predictable but I appreciate that some effort was put into it, as it's not really what you expect out of a game like this. The only voice acting you'll hear is from your crankshaft of a father, and the actor is putting on this very comical hoity-toity voice ("Hello Ashley...this is your father." Very organic). Proving your dad wrong might not motivate most players to move forward as much as the simple promise of buying a new cabinet but it does give some sort of context to the whole thing, even if the game tremendously glosses over the actual logistical challenges to owning an arcade (there is literally no overhead. That's very convenient!) Overall, this is a game I picked up on sale for $7 in the hopes of distracting me for a little bit from existing in America, in October of 2024. What I figured I'd get bored with in two or three days turned into something that I honestly couldn't put down, with the allure of the delivery truck recklessly dropping a new game at my doorstep always keeping me playing for just one more business day. I don't think it's a game for everybody, and I think it's something that might appeal to a more 'oddball' demographic, or at the very least, nostalgia seekers. But for a game that greatly exceeded my admittedly modest expectations, I am more than happy to award it the prestigious Blue Thumbs Up of Quality.
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Though a few aspects of the game differ from reality, the game is not far from the reality of working in an arcade. I have nearly twenty years experience in the electro-mechanical industry and I would trade it all in just to go back to the days when I managed a number of micro-arcades (ones in hotels, cinemas, but never had one in a laundromat). Most of my day was spent maintaining the machines (yes, a ton of playing games) and ensuring the place is clean. This game is a great reminder of what once was a thriving industry that somehow clings on from becoming a thing of the past. If I could change one thing in the game, it would be the naming of the "hoppers" because they're supposed to be called cash boxes, hoppers dispense tokens (or coins in gambling machines). If in the extremely rare chance one of the developers sees this review, I would like to offer my experienced consultation if there ever be a sequel to this perfect game.
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In the beginning, I was getting a bit frustrated between running the laundromat and playing the games - but after I started getting daily tasks, I started believing that game is tuned that way on purpose. You are never being TOLD to neglect the laundromat, and the arcade is basically generating money on its own... however - neglecting the laundromat and actually playing arcade games instead will bring far bigger gains, AND the upgrades (once you get to them) and nearly ALL tuned towards getting you more gaming time. Now, with that realization, I absolutely love how the game, intentionally or not, showcases the philosophy of mindless employee drone and its grind vs. entrepreneurship, and the fact that you have to sacrifice illusion of stability and security in order to get big gains. These philosophies aside, its a really cool game. Nearly everything you do is a small minigame, like collecting and throwing the trash. Absolutely amazing is the fact that all arcade games I tried - are actually FUN AND PLAYABLE. They aren't just a gimmick that you'll play for five minutes and go "he he fun retro game gg", but I legit spent solid 70-80% of my time playing most of the ones I own. It is not much of a management game, so don't get confused there. It really just moves you from grinding repetitive tasks, towards playing retro-feeling games all day long and earning cash on it.
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Developer
Nosebleed Interactive
Publisher
Wired Productions
Release
11 Aug 2022
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