Indie Arcade Games

This page has been created to track “indie” (i.e., independently produced, generally by a very small team with limited resources) arcade games. These games often don’t receive much attention outside of a few small pockets of niche interests online, and because they rarely receive support from distributors, few operators tend to purchase them.

If you’re looking for a network of other indie arcade devs, then I’d recommend staying tuned to this site but also checking out Indie Arcade Wave. I have also owned and operated a number of the games below over the years, so if you’re working on something and would like some tips/advice on what works and what doesn’t, feel free to contact me using the contact form above.

If there are any games missing, please let me know – to count, they will have to have been released in some quantity of units (at least more than 2? Not sure what the cut-off should be) and have to work in a coin-operated cabinet. Kits are ok, as that is often the only way some indies can manage a release; Note that Airframe, exA-Arcadia, and the NEO GEO MVS will all be considered kit games, as they tend to be cartridge releases.

Aka & Blue Type-R (Tanoshimasu, 2020, exA-Arcadia)

Akyrios EXA (Daragon, 2020, exA-Arcadia)

Armed & Gelatinous (Three Flip Studios, 2019)

Black Emperor (BumbleBear Games, 2019)

Chaos Code -Exact Xeno Attack- (FK Digital, 2020, exA-Arcadia)

Cosmotrons (Arcadeaholics, 2018)

Death Ball (Tony Hauber, 2017)

DoDonPachi True Death Exa Label (CAVE/TEAM EXA-AM2, 2020, exA-Arcadia)

Enter The Gungeon: House of the Gundead (Griffin Aerotech/Devolver Digital, 2022?)

Fast Striker (NG: DevTeam, 2010, NEO GEO MVS)

Fight of Gods Arcade Edition (Digital Crafter, 2020, exA-Arcadia)

Galactic Battleground (Slackerz Inc.. 2018)