Games like Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
If Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Arcade Spirits, To Find A Home and Northanger Abbey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character customization feels meaningful, queer positive representation matters and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!
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Arcade Spirits
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Top pick for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?
To Find A Home
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Second-strongest match for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? Sharing a haunted house with a vampire, a werewolf, a ghost and a fellow witch with a same problem.
Northanger Abbey
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Third-strongest match for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
A Marble's Muse
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Ranked #4 for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Fall in love with marbles and learn to believe in yourself again.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Ranked #5 for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Deathwish Bloom
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Ranked #6 for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel set in a quake post-apocalypse, play as Sky, an impostor scientist racing to recreate a cure only she knows existed. Weave or snap ever-shifting bonds with characters whose harboured obsessions can end your pursuit, just as you can theirs. Unless...
飞花剑
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Ranked #7 for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
A yuri martial arts story set in a fictional setting. Players take on the role of a knight roaming the martial arts world, where you'll encounter exciting duels and encounters with diverse characters, all waiting for your exploration.
Daring Academy
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Ranked #8 for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Escape your painful past and start a new life in the futuristic city of Olis with your childhood best friend, Amelia Sweet, and your younger sister, Isabella Lullena. As college life begins, will your lifelong bond with Millie blossom into romance, or remain only friendship in Daring Academy?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Arcade Spirits
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Another title from Fiction Factory Games, the studio behind Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?
Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain
WHY THIS
Another title from Fiction Factory Games, the studio behind Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
A comic book adventure of freelance supervillainy, petting cats, and/or destroying capitalism in which your choices determine success in a series of daring heists and capers.
The Shadow Over Cyberspace
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Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Another title from Fiction Factory Games, the studio behind Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers. Shares Indie with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.
Frequently asked about Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
- How much does Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers cost?
- Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers are Arcade Spirits, To Find A Home, Northanger Abbey.
- Who developed Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers?
- Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers was developed by Fiction Factory Games and published by PQube.
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