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Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is a narrative game set in an alternate version of the distant future year 20XX, where arcades never disappeared. You are an aspiring gamer pursuing esports glory on the Fist of Discomfort 2 Pro Tour. To find a partner, you join a team that spends time at Good Clean Fun, a pizzeria, laundromat and arcade. Rally the team, learn about its members and support their dreams as you face rivals, compete in tournaments, build relationships and investigate an arcade conspiracy.

Your team and relationships

You can befriend and romance six new characters, along with a few returning favorites from the series. Date anyone regardless of your pronouns, or focus on friendship instead. Rebalanced personality choices offer more variety and more chances to talk to every character. Iris, your virtual assistant, measures your personality as Kindly, Steady, Quirky, Gutsy or Flexibly.

Create your characters

The expanded character creator lets you choose your character’s body type, hairstyles, accessories, clothing and more. Your custom character appears on screen throughout the game. You can also use the creator to design the rival who stands in your way, and the two rivals may even fall in love.

Choices and competition

You can import decisions from Arcade Spirits to reshape the world of 20XX. If you have not played the original, this game also works as a standalone experience and adapts to provide a fresh start. Fist of Discomfort 2 is a strategy minigame in which your wins and losses change the direction of the story without ending it; you can skip it.

The game features character art by Molly Nemecek and synthwave music by Greg Mirles.