Arcade Manager Steam Charts & Stats

There is a solid idea here, and the bones of something that I would love to play. But I must unfortunately report that this feels like a very amateur project. Upon loading, you are confronted with a main menu featuring no music or sound of any kind, and a couple large buttons that do not instill confidence. I selected "campaign" and was quite confused at the difficulty options, with each offering a different multiplier on income and visitors. What is odd is that the lowest multiplier of visitors is on hard, which is still 1.5x. 1 and a half times of what exactly? But that's a nitpick. the real problem is that upon entering the game, you are given literally no instruction on how to do anything. it is a visual overload with little respite. Steam says I have played for 11 minutes, and yet I was able to beat the first level. How? because to beat the level you must complete 6 goals. you are able to do so with the money the game gives you to start. I completed the first goal without doing anything at all. The last few goals were just things you needed to buy. The character models seem out of place, likely as a result of using AI, but honestly that's hardly the main problem. The main problem is simply that the game is beyond cluttered, with far too much meaningless complexity. There are prices for everything that you are able to manipulate, but all you have to do so is an imprecise slider bar. It's a mess.

Its a fun little game to play in between. There are definitely some things to improve, but the developer is quite active on discord and listening to feedback.

The developer is very actively working on this game, so any negative reviews written right after release on this Early Access title are probably out of date already. How active is the dev? Well I turned in a list of bugs this morning, and he's already fixed them. I also turned in a list of suggestions, and he said he was working on those. So,yes, a very good developer. Edit: 4/4/25, More updates. Seriously, the game is much better than it was even just yesterday. Edit: 4/5/25, As far as I can tell, the game is now bug-free, and the developer has been adding everyone's suggestions to the game very quickly. Edit: 4/6/25. The clown who wrote the negative review after 10 minutes of play thinks I'm an alt account of the developer. Hahahahaha. If you have any doubts go look at what I've posted on the forums because I got frustrated when I found more game breaking bugs (all fixed immediately) and told him I was deleting my review. If you would do me a favor and downvote his review which he unfairly refuses to change even though none of it is true anymore. Every single thing he complains about has been fixed by the developer.