Independent game studio / New York & Los Angeles / Est. 2015

Dark worlds.
Hard-won stories.

Arcade Distillery is a veteran-led studio making games on original and licensed properties for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC. Plague, war and machines, all set in one connected universe.

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2015
Founded in New York City
12
Games released
5
Platform families
2
Offices: NYC and LA
Catalog

Our games

Strategy, action RPGs, platformers and horror.

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2019

War Theatre

Turn-based strategy RPG with hero units and online play. Set hundreds of years after Plague Road.

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2020

War Theatre: Blood of Winter

The expansion campaign for War Theatre.

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2023

The Light in the Darkness

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2021

SkullPirates

Command the skullpirates in service to their captain, the Skull Queen.

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2020

Death Tales

Free-to-play action RPG set in the Plague Road world.

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2020

Paraiso Island

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2018

Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes

Turn-based strategy in the Mecho universe.

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2017

Mecho Tales

A platformer set in the same world as Mecho Wars.

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2017

Plague Road

Turn-based eldritch horror, narrated by Jim Sterling.

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2015

Kitten Squad

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One connected world

The Plague Universe

Plague Road, Death Tales and War Theatre share a single world, with War Theatre set hundreds of years after the events of Plague Road. Play them in any order and the world keeps getting larger.

Our Mecho games, Mecho Wars and Mecho Tales, share a universe of their own.

The studio

Veteran team.
Independent spirit.

Founded in New York City in 2015, Arcade Distillery brings together designers and artists with experience at Electronic Arts, Disney, GREE and Wizards of the Coast.

We develop new games based on original and licensed properties, from our offices in New York and Los Angeles.

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Original worlds

The Plague and Mecho universes are ours, each spanning multiple games.

Licensed properties

New games built on partner IP as well as our own.

Every major platform

Released across PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC.

Seasoned creators

Over sixty years of combined experience in game development and publishing.

Contact

Let's make something.

Licensing, co-development, publishing, press, or a question about one of our games. Drop us a line and we'll get back to you.

New York

Founded here in 2015

Los Angeles

West Coast office