Game Launcher: The Arcade

Rollerbush

About this app

A NEW GAME LAUNCHER FOR 2024
Start and boost your mobile gaming session from the console like game launcher 'The Arcade'. Games installed on your device are automatically detected and neatly organized for easy access and an immersive gaming experience in the app launcher/gaming hub. Launching games is always lightning fast and free of ads and all other types of delays and annoyances.

With this game launcher and game booster installed, you no longer need to bloat your home screen with individual icons for all your games - you just need one icon and game launcher app to rule them all!

KEY FEATURES
• Automatic setup and game detection (option to manually add or hide any installed app in gaming hub library)
• Instant game launches (no junk delays or animations before launching!)
• 100% free of ads
• Can be configured as you default home app (home button/gesture leads back to the gaming launcher)
• Device stats: phone temperature & thermal throttling status, CPU load/usage monitor, available memory, battery level and charging status
• High quality landscape mode (smooth switching between games running in landscape orientation)
• Game controller detection and intuitive game pad navigation
• All the gaming hub library sorting algorithms you need
• Easy to continue from where you left off; your most recently played games are highlighted for you
• Game booster functionality (kills background processes to free up memory, minimize CPU load and boost gaming performance)
• Several customization options: game icons, game images, background music, The Arcade app icon etc.
• Samsung DeX compatibility mode
• No permission questions, accounts or personal information access
• Lightweight app architecture and memory footprint
• Convenient access to game info and game management options
• Great option for parents who want a simple and fun launcher with a selection of games or apps for their kids
• Both for online and offline games
• Integrated with the Thermal Monitor app (quick launch icon and additional thermal info during gameplay)

Please note that Google/Android has severely limited the ways a 3rd party app can serve as a game booster. The remaining options for boosting games will soon be removed as well, effectively rendering game booster features toothless - for ALL apps in Google Play, regardless of what is advertised by the developer.
Or as Google simply puts it: "It isn't possible for a 3rd-party application to improve the memory, power, or thermal behavior of an Android device."


Enjoy The Arcade!

Ratings and reviews

Does everything you need and nothing else! My items of feedback - add a way to change the background/banner, disable or change music, and please never run ads. I would gladly pay for this app, but never run ads. It just dissuades people from trying the app! Otherwise, thank you for the hard work!! Edit: dev response was so positive!! The world needs more devs like this

5 star experience, aside from the custom background music not actually playing. It doesn't seem to do anything besides route the files. The original music continues to play after restart. Look forward to updates! Also, Samsung DEX compatibility just seemed to stop. Nice and convenient for it, and I'd love to see that back.

It's not incredibly difficult to put together a game launcher app, but this one does it really well, really simply, and really free, and looks great while it's at it. Perfect solution to gathering all of my games up while using the stock Pixel launcher on my 8 Pro, and a great replacement to Samsungs Game Launcher, which I'd gotten use to from years of using Samsung phones. 5*

What's new

• Added game profiles and collections
• Rename apps in library
• Smaller app size