Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $4.99.
- Story and characters: 264 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 55 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 35 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 631 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The characters were engaging and the story became very emotional.
There is some limited voice acting, which is surprising and welcome.
I love the 80’s neon art style, so vibrant and alive.
It took me about 10 hours to reach an ending, and there seems to be a high degree of replayability thanks to a feature that is unlocked at the end.
Arcade Spirits, developed by Fiction Factory Games and published by PQube, is a heartfelt visual novel that reimagines modern gaming culture through the lens of an alternate history where the 1983 video game crash never occurred.
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Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $4.99 (−75%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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