Free to playAnarchy Arcade Your desktop, now a walkable arcade
Turn your shortcuts into cabinets, TVs and posters in a 3D space you build, wander and share with others.
Is Anarchy Arcade worth it?
Anarchy Arcade is worth it if…
- you'd rather walk through your game library than scroll through it
- you like decorating and building rooms at your own pace
- you want one place for Steam games, emulators, videos and files together
- you enjoy poking around the strange spaces other players have built
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Your desktop, but walkable
Anarchy Arcade replaces your flat wallpaper with a 3D room and your flat icons with objects in it. A game becomes an arcade cabinet, a movie becomes a TV on the wall, a website becomes a poster. You walk up to what you want and click LAUNCH, no menus in between. Everything opens at full quality on top of the world, just like it would on a normal desktop, and alt+tab works as usual. When you start something heavy, the world goes into a deep sleep and releases its memory, so your games run as fast as they always do. It is a launcher that happens to be a place.
Building your arcade
You spawn in shortcuts and props, place them where you like, and tweak their properties until the room feels like yours. The game even finds HD boxart and trailers for your shortcuts on its own. If the default furniture runs out, the Workshop has thousands of items and maps shared by other players, and publishing your own setup takes a built-in tool. It is casual, low-pressure building: no timers, no failure, just a room that slowly becomes a portrait of what you play and watch.
A metaverse of other people's stuff
Your desktop can be hosted in multiplayer, so friends can walk into your arcade, watch videos with you, or take a tour of your collection. And it goes both ways: other players have built massive spaces you can explore, some strange, some enormous, and seeing how deep each one goes is half the fun. You can stay in your own private reality if you prefer, but the public side is where the anarchy lives. There is optional VR support too, if you own a headset and want to stand inside your own collection instead of just looking at it.
Can you use it as an everyday desktop?
Can you really replace your normal desktop with it?
Yes. It can sit at startup in place of your wallpaper, and your Start menu, alt+tab and regular programs all work normally on top of it. When you launch something, the 3D world sleeps and frees its resources, so it is not slowing anything down. That said, the controls take some getting used to, so many people start by using it for their game and media collection first.
Do you need a VR headset?
No. VR is optional, and the whole thing works fine in first person on a normal screen. If you do have a Rift or Vive or similar, walking around your own arcade in VR is there when you want it.
