Underplayed Gems

Arcaea (2021)

Arcaea cover
Platforms
Nintendo Switch
Genres
Music, Arcade
Where to get it
Nintendo eShop

How it feels

A precise, rhythm-driven experience where tapping, holding, and sliding to a vast soundtrack feels both meditative and urgent, wrapped in a haunting, memory-scattered world.

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About

Touch, hold, slide—and, for the first time ever, use the Joy-Con controllers to glide through the world of Arcaea. Feel the rhythm in a vast collection of songs now fully available on Nintendo Switch, and follow the fateful story of the girls lost in its world. Each awakens without any memories in a barren, pale world of ruined buildings and dry oceans. Only the drifting, glass shard-like memories offer any sense of life in this world... but where will the memories lead them?

Screenshots

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