The Paper Arcade

View on Steam

The Paper Arcade

Short description

The Paper Arcade is a collection of classic arcade-style games with a unique drawing and sketchbook aesthetic. Enjoy fast-paced, high-score chasing action, challenging puzzles, and casual games. Each game is brought to life with stunning hand-drawn graphics. Addictive, retro-style gaming fun!

Developer
3ichael 7ambert, A Rocket's Intensity
Publisher
3ichael 7ambert
Release
Mon, May 01, 2023
Price
$9.99
Reviews
0
Positive
n/a
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
0 – 20K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Action, Casual, Indie, Sports, Strategy, Early Access
Features
Multi-player, PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen, Full controller support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support
Tags
Early Access Side Scroller Shoot 'Em Up Collectathon PvP Shooter Point & Click Strategy Arcade e-sports 2D Action Top-Down Casual Minimalist Pixel Graphics Stylized Score Attack Atmospheric Physics

No revenue estimate: this needs both a review count and a launch price, and at least one of them is missing.

Waiting for The Paper Arcade to get cheaper? Name your price and we will email you when it gets there.

Watch this game Free account, no card. Already have one?

History

Tracking started Aug 14, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around The Paper Arcade is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Early Access + Side Scroller + Shoot 'Em Up

Combinations under 15 games are left out to reduce the influence of small samples. The games below share those tags and are free to browse.

Unlock every combination See the radar first →

Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with The Paper Arcade. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Sine Mora EX Sine Mora EX GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC. 7 titles +2 4 − Early Access − Collectathon + Bullet Hell + Difficult $9.99 466 66% Tue, Aug 08, 2017 $181k
$80k – $862k
Sausage Hunter Sausage Hunter Banger Chasers first game 4 − Collectathon − PvP + Puzzle + Platformer $4.99 129 88% Sat, Jan 31, 2026 $16k
$7k – $28k
HUNTDOWN HUNTDOWN Easy Trigger Games 2 titles 3 − Early Access − Collectathon − PvP + Pixel Graphics + Action + Local Co-Op $19.99 4,042 95% Wed, May 12, 2021 $3.1m
$341k – $5.5m
Wild Assault Wild Assault Combat Cat Studio first game 3 − Side Scroller − Shoot 'Em Up − Collectathon + Hero Shooter + Third-Person Shooter + Action $14.99 3,837 69% Thu, May 28, 2026 $1.3m
$1m – $1.3m
Soda Crisis Soda Crisis Team Soda 3 titles 3 − Early Access − Collectathon − PvP + Runner + Action + Platformer $10.99 2,910 93% Mon, May 23, 2022 $2.2m
$2.2m – $2.6m

There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.

See the full neighbourhood Or start from the radar →