Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 01:25 am
My Arcade Empire – Casual Game Review
My Arcade Empire is a Casual game from Concrete Software, Inc., first launched in 25th October 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 869+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes My Arcade Empire Stand Out
It’s a blast to the past in this gnarly arcade idle tap game! Build your own arcade empire to earn money and become the most bodacious arcade tycoon of the 80's!
Corey and the gang need your help to create a totally tubular arcade! Tap to build arcade games, gain customers, and unlock fun characters! Collect character cards and level them up with pizza and tokens! It’s fun, it’s easy, it’s a free idle arcade tycoon game!
GAME FEATURES
BUILD BUSINESSES AND MAKE MONEY
Tap and build your arcade businesses and get rich quick with the quirky residents of Ridgemont! Explore the arcade games and surf the tasty waves in New Wave, rock and roll with Axe Caliber, or deliver some tasty pizza pie in Pizza Time! Tap and play games to become an arcade idle tycoon millionaire!
FREE IDLE TAP ARCADE ADVENTURES
Tap and build arcade machines into money-making idle arcades! Automate businesses so you can even make cash while you’re not playing. Upgrade characters and businesses by collecting cards to help you rake in more cash, pizza, and tokens! Become the best idle tycoon master!
KEY FEATURES:
• Make idle cash and money online or offline
• Collect fun character cards and automate arcade games
• Expand your arcade empire
• Casual, easy gameplay
• Beautiful 2D and 3D graphics
• Weekly events and prizes
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, My Arcade Empire is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th January 2023
Recent improvements include:
My Arcade Empire 1.41.2 brings a totally awesome update out to you:
- We've brought in the cleaning crew to clean the gum off the bottom of the tables and sweep the bugs up from behind the machines.
Got a sweet idea? Email us at [email protected].
Download & Availability
My Arcade Empire is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get My Arcade Empire on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
A reset feature would be great.
When we did the tutorial to upgrade Jo it wont let us finish it. Not sure why that happens the game sounds fun. But cant go any further in it wish we could play it. We cant play the game it dose not let us go past it.Its the tutorial to show you how to upgrade your character. It make us upgrade Jo and it dose not us advance.
Was excited for this premise and potential but theres zero gameplay. Just idle tap stupidity.
Way too many currencies beyond the basic coins/customers. You need gacha cards for people, gacha cards for each game, pizza, premium currency (gems) ridiculous. The gameplay, characters, and story are competent but nothing special. Not sure why the app was rated so high! 3/5.
Cutscenes are way too often and there is way too much talking and not enough gaming goin on.
So game bugs out for a full day. Randomly starts working again, stuff we did for the event apparently didnt count. We received no bonus from the time the game wouldnt work either such as the x2 bonus for time spent away from game. So at this point Im about to delete it but Ill wait to see if Im compensated for the developers mistake.
Im playing the event thats going on right now and we lost our place because yall allow people to buy gems. Where is the fairness we wasted hours for someone idiot to buy gems just to waste his gems to pass us ! Whats even crazier is yall set it up that way so more people buy them yall should be considers scammers ! There isnt a good grind anymore without pay to win go create a good game garbage creator.
Bug us to review every single episode, heres your review, one star.
So addictive for us and it is amazing but we just wish their were more games to unlock.
When we get home we just go play it for like 3 hours.
Cool unexpected take on idle game. 5 stars.
Oh our god. This is so good. There are almost no ads, it does a good job on 80s aesthetics, its just amazing. We cannot recommend this game enough. Download for the sake of your own happiness.
Im not usually into games like these, but our friend told us to check it out and we have literally become obsessed. If these types of mobile games arent usually your thing, we would definitely recommend giving this one a shot! Its definitely shifted our perspective.
We love it so much so fun and makes our toes tingle.
Easy to play and lose some time in! We love how we can play arcade style games in this idle game. The artwork is amazing, all the characters are hilarious! Leech is our man.
We enjoyed downloading keep up the great work.
This game is great! It has seemingly endless levels and challenges, and a engaging story to match.
Super fun 80s game best game ive played in a while.
Good story. Fun game. This company makes great games.
Just downloaded the game and already addicted! We love upgrading the games and moving to new venues to build our empire! The 80s themed characters are cool too.
Good story line, functional mechanics, good progression. Pretty much everything you look for in an idle game. 5/5.
Im rate 5 stars because there a D Word can you remove the d word.
This idle game is one of the best! No main game is very consecutive when it comes to how much time is needed to beat it, progressively increasing obviously. While the events ARE very much possible to %100 complete-with the true time dedication of course. Definitely worth the download if youre into or are trying to get into idle games.
The character Leech is awesome This game is super fun. The banter between characters is very entertaining. The art, sounds, gameplay are on point. You can tell the developers had fun making this one.
Retro arcade vibe is spot on. We look forward to every new game and character. The story get pretty wild near the end. Events are a highlight as well. Our favorite has to be Leech getting pulled into the game. It has real Ready Player One vibes.
Great game but the ads for Royal Match are very abusive. They lead you to believe you will watch an occasional ad but Royal Match wont let you click off and it sends you to another advertisement. Then sometime it takes minutes, other ads for this game arent like that. But this game rocks and we love 80s stuff.
Cant stop playing interesting characters Love the 80s references, nostalgic.
Great game with nostalgic 80s references (Ghostbusters, Knight Rider, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Animal House (well, that mightve been 70s), Back to the Future, etc). Very funny story/writing. Another reviewer complained about the talking going on too longyou can just tap through it and it goes quickly. We find it very amusing and definitely part of the charm of the game. There is a limited-time challenge that takes place in another arcade, which is great: you get to play two different arcades at once.
There are too many ads. Offer an paid option to disable ads at a reasonable price and youd have a customer for life.
Short duration events (1 to 4 days) with leaderboards are fun, but the ad dependency to remain competitive is ridiculous, particularly since the ad service is buggy and locks up the game for hours at a clip. No, its not our phone as our brother has the same issues on his phone; no, its not the network, because Im on the other side of the country from him. Its the crappy game. Do better. Game seems to be abandoned.
70% of the ads we get from this game are scams. Feels like watching our Facebook feed.
Short duration events (1 to 4 days) with leaderboards are fun, but the ad dependency to remain competitive is ridiculous, particularly since the ad service is buggy and locks up the game for hours at a clip. No, its not our phone as our brother has the same issues on his phone; no, its not the network, because Im on the other side of the country from him. Its the crappy game. Do better.
Totally boring and repetitive. All youre doing is putting and collecting tokens over and over and over again to basically to get to the next level to just start and do it all over AGAIN we mean theres really nothing fun interesting or exciting about it to want to keep playing it to get further. Is just basically add tokens and repeat. Seems to just be the basic premise of the game. If was more like Thrillville where could keep adding stuff instead of repeatedly starting over and be interactive walking around playing game etc. Would make it a little more interesting and fun.
If you love games this is for you. Its very fun for us and you can play music on you device while playing the game and that is a bonus for us.
So far Ive been immersed in the small sort it had and does not disappoint.
This game is super fun. We started playing a few weeks ago, and find the story and graphics really cool. The only problem we have, and we dont know if its a catch up mechanic or something, but there is too many side events. We do 1 thats 24 hours long, as soon as its over there is automatically another one. Its exhausting trying to keep up with both. As someone who like to do everything a game has to offer, the events take us away from the regular side of the game and we havent played the regular game as much. Events should be sporadic maybe bi weekly on a weekend. One right after another is way too much.
Ive been playing this game for a few months now and its been pretty entertaining and a nice little time waster. We love all the 80s references and theres just something about leveling up all the arcade games that we find really satisfying. Im almost to the last episode, so hopefully there will be more, but theres always side events that can keep us busy in the meantime. Our only complaint is that the game has become more and more glitchy. It started with ads not playing or us not receiving the reward after watching, which has mostly been fixed. Then theres been a few times (like right now) where we cant even get the game to load past the start screen- it just stays at 22%, even after totally closing the game and restarting it and that will last about a day before randomly working again. Theres also a glitch with the shopping bag icon where it sometimes wont load, so we miss out on a bunch of the pizza pack rewards until it decides to work again. So all in all its a fun little clicker game, but hopefully the glitches get resolved because its getting kinda frustrating.
After downloading the game it said to come back here and update, it won't let us update here..any help appreciated.
Event rewards do not give what it states in the leaderboard sometimes which is very frustrating This game would be a lot more enjoyable if you could purchase something to remove ads. It is impossible to place well in the events unless you spend money or watch a lot of ads. The amount of currency provided wont get very far. We are sick and tired of watching ads and would pay to remove them but because that is not an option we will be dropping this game.
Since whatever update happened, theres an ad at the bottom of the screen. Done playing unless its fixed by the next update.
We think the artwork in this game is next level genius! Idk if any of you noticed that there are little references to pop culture stuff hidden in the artwork. Really shows the creativity of the designers and get a good laugh and smile when we finally put it together.
Hi, Ive been playing this game for almost a month and we really enjoy it. We finished episode 27 and am waiting for you to add more in the next update.
Play 10 seconds, cut scene, play 10 seconds, cut scene, play 10 seconds, rinse, repeat. We wanted to throw our phone.
Love this game, honestly the only idle game Ive kept long term. But its been a long time since Ive completed level 25. Even the special events are starting to feel repetitive.
Absolutely love this game but you need to add more episodes we beat level 25 and there is nothing left besides the special events so please add more episodes.
Stop shoving tutorial down our throats and locking game systems. Just let us play the game. Give us back 100 pizza we were saving you forced us to spend on a stupid game upgrade. Give us back the 50 gems you forced us to spend on a stupid supply box. Stop forcing us to buy time skip Stop forcing us to claim reward pack.
Nice progress to lvl 25. In the last few days the ad system has been broken about 75% of the time. Any ad with the white bars does not give the rewards after watching. Wasting too much time watching ads for no credit. Needs fixed bad.
This started a few days ago. Many ads you watch all the way through and no reward is given. Makes it impossible to complete the limited time events. Even if you hit retry on the ad it still does it. We feel like the developers are trying to get more ad revenue. Kinda crappy. Fix your stuff or Im going to just stop playing it altogether.
We wont say it a perfect game we wont say its the best thing ever, but they giving it theyr all, Plus its a or billing your own arcade, how dope is that, just add more riot of video games and everything is gonna be fine.
We really enjoy this game. Its a fantastic time passing game. Plus the turn around on events keep it interesting. Also, kudos to the developers for the Cheech and Chong reference on the license plate.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.41.2
- Size: 172.26 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Concrete Software, Inc.
Last updated: 30th January 2023 | Genre: Casual | Developer: Concrete Software, Inc.