Arcade Tycoon Review (Steam)

Arcade Tycoon Review, Delight your guests with a huge variety of entertainment including consoles, pinball, retro, modern-day, shooters, pool, ice hockey, virtual reality, and more. Create awesome-looking themed areas by purchasing unique attractions and decorating all aspects: floors, walls, pictures, and all the required and very handy facilities.

Arcade Tycoon Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 1.4GB Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Graphics settings – screen mode, and resolution.
• Gameplay settings – autosave frequency, reticule style, edge panning, mouse lock, and max autosaves.
• Three difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard.
• Two game modes – campaign, and sandbox.
• Management gameplay.
• Tutorial level.
• Eleven locations to unlock and play.
• Save and load when you want.
• You can sit there and watch the game play out.
• Every machine you place needs power and you only get so much in a location.
• Each level has three trophies to earn.
• The game uses old-school browsers for the menu system.
• You get to name or randomize your arcade names.
• Easy to use drag and drop system for placing machines.
• Hire staff to help customers, and fix machines.
• Money earned and lost will pop up above players, workers, and machines.
• Analytics lets you see what is trending at the moment so you can get the right games in.
• Customers will have an emoji above their heads saying how they feel.
• You can fully decorate and customize your arcades.
• Emails will come through with help and warnings.
• Workers can be left to their own devices or you can man manage them, either way, they earn exp and level up to get new perks.
• The clock autoruns but you can open and shut the shop at will.
• Different weather types can affect business.
• In-depth stats for all machines and staff including how much they make, power usage, and how popular they are.
• You can edit the price of food and drink.
• Speed boost can be turned on and off at will.
• Events like school holidays and heatwaves can happen which impact how you run your business.
• At the end of the year, you have to deal with the taxman.
• You have to hire cleaners, entertainers, security, etc.
• At any time you can jump to a new location/level once you hit the criteria.
• Can be a good little time waster.
• Sandbox mode lets you set rent, and start cash which opens the game up allowing big arcades.
• Excellent and sometimes humorous animations.
• The best part of the sandbox mode is having everything unlocked.

Arcade Tycoon Review Cons:

• The game is very loose in regards to tutorials and leaves you to go through the many daunting menus and numbers.
• Takes a while to get going.
• Cannot remap controls.
• It’s not obvious so I never saw it but you have to manually click into each machine and turn them on.
• The game just starts in the campaign and you’re not sure what you are doing and get little feedback.
• Uses a lot of the same character models.
• The bios of workers repeat constantly and don’t feel unique.
• You only see the one angle of your arcade so in essence you have half an arcade to decorate.
• Putting down a floor is on a tile-by-tile basis.
• Mission goals are not clearly shown and instead hidden in menus.
• Hard to click on workers at times.
• The gameplay just feels repetitive and starting a new arcade feels the same method over and over.
• You get little motivation to unlock all the trophies on an arcade and instead just do the ones needed for new locations and machines.
• The arcades are very small.
• Cannot choose the location or them of the world in sandbox mode.
• The AI path finding of the workers is not always good.

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Arcade Tycoon:

Official website.

Developer: Vincent Corporation Ltd, Squidpunch Studios 

Publisher: Vincent Corporation

Store Links –

Steam