Patchwork Arcade: Idle Retro

Fifteen broken cabinets. One legendary high score. Light it all back up.

Your uncle Benny's arcade, Patchwork, closed in 1994 with the lights still on. You get the keys, a room of dusty cabinets and a high-score table where every top score belongs to the same initials: ???.

FIX THE CABINETS

• Broken machines wait in the repair queue. Your techs fix the screen, the stick and the coin door
• Fifteen original cabinet games: space shooters, pizza racers, a four-seat star derby, a dance machine, pinball pirates and a golden legend
• Search storage units and yard sales for the cabinets that are still out there

ARRANGE THE FLOOR

• Every night has a crowd: speedrunners, kids, couples and collectors, each with their favourites
• Three aisles, each with its own foot traffic. Put two hot cabinets side by side and the aisle jams
• Spread the stars out, widen the busy aisle, tune your best machines
• Earn while you are away, capped and shown before you collect

THE ??? MYSTERY

• 6 chapters of visitors: a thirty-year runner-up, a couple who met at the racing cabinet, a collector and the after-school club
• Old tapes, a hidden notebook and a golden cabinet lead to the 1994 Patchwork Cup
• After the cup, open new arcades with a bonus on every token

KEEP THE LIGHTS ON

• Themed nights: Couples Night, Speedrun Sunday, Kids' Club, Collectors' Swap
• Upgrades: a prize counter, a snack bar, a neon sign, a jukebox
• Change your neon and carpet colours

Works offline. Every cabinet game in this arcade is original and fictional.

Controls

• Mouse: select tasks, manage staff and buy upgrades. Scroll longer menus with the mouse wheel.
• Enter: start, resume, continue, or accept the current story or welcome card.
• Escape: close the business panel, pause or resume. The title screen asks before quitting.

Desktop edition

• The full game with no ads or in-app purchases.
• Temporary helpers are free on their existing saved cooldowns.
• Normal capped offline income; the mobile income-doubling offers are removed.
• English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
• Resizable 540 x 960 window, with a separate desktop save folder.

Credits

Made by Crystl Labs Cabinets: Arcade Machine Pack by BenjaTheMaker (CC0, OpenGameArt), repainted with original games 3D art: Kenney Arcade Kit by Kenney (CC0). Carpet: 80s arcade set by RUOK (CC0) Icons: Fluent Emoji by Microsoft (MIT License) Music: "Spy Glass" and "Hidden Agenda" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Fonts: Bungee, VT323, IBM Plex Mono (SIL Open Font License) All cabinet games, people and places in this game are fictional.