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Arcade Paradise cover art

Arcade Paradise

Nosebleed Interactive · Wired Productions · 2022-08-11

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AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Aug 11, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (Google Stadia), Aug 11, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Aug 11, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 11, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Aug 11, 2022 (PlayStation 4)

Turn a rundown laundromat into a radical ’90s arcade. Manage your business, expand your neon empire, and balance dirty laundry with over 35 playable arcade games. Build the ultimate arcade! From the team behind Vampire Crawlers.

9
playing now
81%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (22 ratings)
40h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Arcade Paradise is a business simulation video game developed by Nosebleed Interactive and published by Wired Productions. It was released August 11, 2022, for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S and October 13, 2022, for Amazon Luna and Google Stadia. The player character grows a struggling laundromat business into a thriving arcade. It received mixed to generally favorable reviews from critics. Metacritic aggregate scores range from 72 out of 100 for Windows, and 83 out of 100 for Switch.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 9 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 134 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~17/week).
  • · Review velocity up 61% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 41k–93k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,063 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$5.19-74%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$5.19-74%
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.49 at Fanatical (2025-05-02) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 49 of 70 observed days · $2.70 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
27827820222026Week of 2022-08-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2432026-08-11 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 12 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 15 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 8 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 16 players2026-08-15 21:00 — 20 players2026-08-16 13:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 05:00 — 13 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 12:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 20 players2026-08-19 20:00 — 18 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 8 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 16 players2026-08-21 19:00 — 18 players2026-08-22 11:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 24 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 24 players2026-08-24 10:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 12 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 18 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 12 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 14 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 19 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.752022-07-152026-08-302022-07-15 — best price $16.062022-08-16 — best price $16.012022-11-04 — best price $19.992022-12-13 — best price $13.252023-01-31 — best price $19.992023-03-03 — best price $19.992023-04-28 — best price $13.982023-05-15 — best price $9.742023-06-20 — best price $19.992023-07-18 — best price $14.892023-08-03 — best price $19.992023-09-11 — best price $11.992023-11-01 — best price $9.992023-12-02 — best price $14.892024-01-10 — best price $19.992024-02-11 — best price $9.992024-03-05 — best price $11.992024-04-18 — best price $11.992024-05-09 — best price $19.992024-06-18 — best price $14.892024-07-23 — best price $19.992024-08-16 — best price $6.002024-09-12 — best price $9.592024-10-16 — best price $7.992024-11-14 — best price $7.992024-12-20 — best price $5.252025-02-05 — best price $19.992025-03-03 — best price $3.992025-04-18 — best price $19.992025-05-13 — best price $6.992025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-08-26 — best price $5.992025-10-07 — best price $5.592025-12-03 — best price $19.992026-01-23 — best price $5.592026-03-11 — best price $5.592026-04-24 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $4.392026-08-30 — best price $5.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

59112026-05-26 — 23 pageviews2026-05-29 — 17 pageviews2026-06-01 — 59 pageviews2026-06-04 — 57 pageviews2026-06-07 — 36 pageviews2026-06-10 — 35 pageviews2026-06-13 — 22 pageviews2026-06-16 — 19 pageviews2026-06-19 — 21 pageviews2026-06-22 — 32 pageviews2026-06-25 — 25 pageviews2026-06-28 — 33 pageviews2026-07-01 — 26 pageviews2026-07-04 — 39 pageviews2026-07-07 — 44 pageviews2026-07-10 — 23 pageviews2026-07-13 — 22 pageviews2026-07-16 — 17 pageviews2026-07-19 — 36 pageviews2026-07-22 — 15 pageviews2026-07-25 — 29 pageviews2026-07-28 — 23 pageviews2026-07-31 — 26 pageviews2026-08-03 — 22 pageviews2026-08-06 — 33 pageviews2026-08-09 — 32 pageviews2026-08-12 — 37 pageviews2026-08-15 — 27 pageviews2026-08-18 — 27 pageviews2026-08-21 — 28 pageviews2026-08-23 — 23 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
85.1%
earned "Pushing a pull door"
6.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading Cards11 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)21,1222%54
PS5 (PlayStation)9,6508%55
Steam (Steam)5,6493%54
PS4 (PlayStation)2,5629%55
Switch (Nintendo)540%0
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DFunnyRetro1990'sArcadeComedyAdventureRealisticManagementOld School

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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