So,
Your a young person with an abusive distant father who occassionally calls you or messages you with plenty of sarcastic unplesant messages.
In between you do basic stuff to buy new arcade cabinets which are... well mobile game shovelware for the most part.
The only way to get upgrades is to play them and hit arbitrary goals which is annoying. So overall. It works but it's not great.
Can't skip the Intro, can't watch it with all the shaking and it pauses when leaving the Tab, so my PC is running, with me doing something else, while the Intro is playing. Great!
Eventually you will be able to remove the laundromat area entirely, rebrand the building, and get a message from daddykins that he’s proud of you. Too little too late, hope you enjoy not having any family at the Thanksgiving day dinner, because you can burn in hell for all I care. Nothing redeemable about his character at all. Not that I liked miss “I want to be an artist” either, as she just takes the slapping from him all the time without just trying to strike it out on her own. No, she’d rather be a grungy, dirty, greasy failure that couldn’t even make it working for Pizza Hut- I mean Pizza King. None of the characters in this that I can name are likable, so yeah, the story was super flat to me. Did not enjoy it one bit.
In fact I’m not sure what kept me going, possibly just wanting to be done? Because the arcade machines had games, but they were all very arcady, and I really never vibbed with arcade machines exactly for that fact. Why play it then? Because it was free and I needed something different from you usual intense and violent FPS game, and Arcade Paradise is very chill. You got a jukebox you can play tunes on, you can just sit in the managers office doing jack all until the day is over and still make bank from all the machines. It was something I could switch on, place the loser in her office, and just do something else while the dough rolled in. Every now and then having to fix a machine, clean up trash, and of course, plunge the toilet.
Arcade Paradise gets a 6.0 out of 10