It’ll all come out in the wash.

Newcastle-based developer Nosebleed Interactive has been on our radar ever since it released The Hungry Horde for PS Vita, a scrappy action strategy title with a zombie-themed collectible card game built into it. The studio, with its penchant for minigames and genre blending, followed it up with the excellent Vostok Inc, a fusion of Geometry Wars and Cookie Clicker with a frightening array of minigames to unlock. Now it’s realised its potential with Arcade Paradise, a nostalgic 90s celebration that pulls you in so many different directions it’s impossible to get bored.

At its core, this is a tycoon game where you must expand your laundromat arcade in order to extract as many quarters as possible from patrons in fluorescent windbreakers. You’ve inherited the grimy Grindstone business from your father, who thinks video games are a waste of space – and you’re on a one-man crusade to prove him wrong. You’re going to need a little elbow grease to get started, though, and so the first few hours play like a Farming Simulator-style parody, where you’re cleaning up rubbish, washing clothes, and unclogging toilets.

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