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.

Get to know the diverse cast of 'Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers' in our brand new character trailer! Featuring -

• Domino - A shy individual who struggles to form real attachments. While he may sometimes have a bleak outlook on life he will do anything for his friends.
• Grace - A genius in her own right, she helped develop several pieces of innovative technology but prefers the life of an indie game developer.
• Jynx - Don't let the icy stare scare you away. Jynx can come across as intimidating but in reality, she's just pragmatic while showing a fierce loyalty to those close to her and their needs.
• Locksley - The thief with a heart of gold. As his namesake suggests, Locksley loves nothing more than helping those in need whilst attempting to bring down big corporations.
• Rhapsody - Knows everything there is to know about strategy. They are an expert in all things Fist of Discomfort related and a top-notch shoutcaster to top it off!
• Zapper - To say that she is passionate would be an understatement. Zapper is highly competitive and likes to do everything at 110%.

Physical editions of Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers on PS4, PS5 or Nintendo Switch are available to preorder now from Funstock!

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) on May 27, 2022