Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!

In the distant future year 20XX, an alternate timeline where arcades never went away... you're an aspiring gamer searching for esports glory on the Fist of Discomfort 2 Pro Tour. Seeking a partner to play with, you join a team of players who hang out at Good Clean Fun, a combination pizzeria / laundromat / arcade. It's up to you to rally the team, learning more about who they are and how best to support their dreams along the way. Defeat rivals, conquer tournaments, build relationships, and uncover a strange arcade conspiracy as your team walks the road to victory!

In Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers it's up to you to rally together a team and achieve your dreams!

Design your protagonist and rival from the ground up with a massively expanded character creator - pronoun, skin tone, body type, hairstyles, accessories, clothing, and more. Choose their identity, and how their personality develops. Plus, enjoy greater immersion as your fully custom character now appears on screen throughout the entire game!

Analyse your personality and measure changes based on your decisions throughout the game with handy virtual assistant, IRIS! Accessed through a free app on your in-game phone, IRIS exists to help users achieve everything they want in life - a better job, a new home, and even romance.

IRIS, can track your personality traits from Quirky and Steady, to Kindly and Gutsy, as well as your relationship statuses with the rest of the characters.

The PC demo (Steam - itch.io) will be the first time players can get hands on with the latest title.

Containing a segment of Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers Chapter 1, players will find themselves thrown head first into the dog-eat-dog world of championship esports.

Team Play-2-Win, the hottest team on the circuit and your ultimate rivals, have arrived at the Good Clean Fun arcade. Sizing up the competition, you and your brand new teammates find yourselves in the crosshairs of your opposition - with a series of crucial decisions that could shape your future in the tournament, how you handle the situation is down to you.

With these features you know and love from Arcade Spirits:

• Six new characters to befriend and romance, as well as a few return appearances by series favorites.
• Character art by Molly Nemecek, pulsating synthwave tunes by Greg Mirles!, and amazing background art by Jessie Lam!
• Measure your personality using Iris, your handy virtual assistant. You can be Kindly, Steady, Quirky, Gutsy, or Flexibly!
• Date anyone you like regardless of your pronouns, or focus entirely on building friendships.

And NEW features to the series:

• Import your decisions from Arcade Spirits, and reshape the world of 20XX based on the choices you've made! And if you haven't played the original game, that's fine – this works just as well as a standalone experience and will adapt itself to be a great fresh start.
• A massively expanded character creator – choose body type, hairstyles, accessories, clothing, and more. Your custom character now appears on screen during the whole game!
• Design your own rival! Using the full power of the character creator, craft the one who will stand in your way. Or will perhaps love bloom between these two enemies...?
• Take on the world in Fist of Discomfort 2, a strategy minigame. Your victory or defeat changes the path of your story without ending it! (Minigame is skippable.)
• Rebalanced personality choices, with more variety and more opportunities to talk to every character.

Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series X|S and PC (Steam - itch.io) in 2022