Best Arcades in Singapore

Here are our nine choices for the best arcades in Singapore. The biggest fills 22,000 square feet under Orchard Road with bumper cars and a VR arena six people play at once. Another hides thirteen different rhythm games behind two hundred claw machines. One of them is a bar with Street Fighter and a live band every night.

There are around 100 arcades here, and these are the ones worth travelling for.

🕹️ Timezone Orchard Xchange — the biggest

Timezone Orchard Xchange fills 22,000 square feet of basement under Orchard Road and holds about 160 games. It is the only Timezone with everything the chain makes: bumper cars, mini bowling, social bowling, ColourGrid, and Arkadia, a VR arena six people play at once.

A nine-year-old and a nineteen-year-old can both spend two hours here. Weekends and school holidays are packed, so come on a weekday evening.

🎡 Timezone VivoCity — the best one for younger children

Timezone VivoCity was the chain’s first flagship and has the two things that matter for small children: bumper cars, and Highway66 mini bowling, where the lanes are short and the balls are light enough for a six-year-old to bowl a real game.

It sits directly above the HarbourFront interchange, so you can get there and back without a car. One Powercard works at every Timezone, so a card bought here works at Orchard Xchange too.

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🧸 Cow Play Cow Moo (Suntec City) — the prizes, and the most kinds of rhythm game

Cow Play Cow Moo in the basement at Suntec City is the chain’s original and biggest floor, with more than two hundred claw machines. The prizes are the reason to come here rather than to a cheaper claw shop: properly licensed Disney and anime plush rather than lookalikes, restocked through the week, and a prize counter of Funko Pop figures, imported Pokémon displays and Nerf.

Behind the claws is a rhythm room the front of the shop gives no hint of. It runs thirteen different games — maimai DX, CHUNITHM, beatmania IIDX, SOUND VOLTEX, GITADORA on both guitar and drums, DDR, Pump It Up, jubeat, pop’n music, REFLEC BEAT, Nostalgia and Taiko — which is more kinds of rhythm game than anywhere else in Singapore.

👨‍👩‍👧 ArcadiaX (Kallang Wave Mall) — for a group of mixed ages

ArcadiaX has a small indoor playground with a ball pit behind the machines, so the under-fives have somewhere to be while everyone older plays. Claw machines are the main event, with Wangan Midnight driving cabinets, redemption games and a prize counter around them.

It was called Paco FunWorld until July 2026 and tokens from then still work. Level 2 of the mall, next to Stadium station, and much quieter on a weekday evening than a Saturday afternoon.

🎵 PACO FunWorld (Bugis+) — rhythm games, cheaper

PACO FunWorld runs maimai, CHUNITHM and Taiko, and a play costs less here than at the mall chains. Regulars top up a large amount during a promotion and draw it down over weeks. Claw machines, driving and drumming games fill the rest of the floor.

Try the machine you want before you load up a card. Several of the maimai cabinets have developed faults — audio jacks, touchscreens, buttons. It is on level 3, directly above Bugis station and under cover the whole way from the platform.

🎶 Virtualand (NEX) — the most maimai cabinets

Virtualand at NEX has more maimai cabinets than anywhere else in the country, alongside CHUNITHM, Taiko, jubeat and SOUND VOLTEX. If you are queueing for maimai on a busy evening, this is where the wait is shortest. Racing is Wangan Midnight and Initial D, and the claw machines hold Japanese imports rather than generic plush.

Two things to know. Top-ups are cash only, so bring notes. And after 11pm the maimai cabinets switch to guest mode, so a late session will not save your scores.

🍺 Level Up (Clarke Quay) — the one for adults

Level Up is an arcade and a bar in the same room, on the second floor of a shophouse looking over the river. The cabinets are the ones people grew up with — Street Fighter, OutRun, Time Crisis, Metal Slug, Bishi Bashi — alongside pool, darts, foosball, air hockey and basketball. A local band plays every night and there is no entry charge.

Under-18s can come in with an adult from 5pm to 8pm, or all evening on Sundays. After that it is a bar with games in it.

🏀 ME Cafe & Games (Chinatown) — for playing against each other

ME Cafe & Games is built around competing rather than cabinets: digital archery, a duel ball arena for two, a team basketball shoot-out, tabletop cycling, pool, darts and a punching machine, across more than 6,000 square feet. There are also six console pods, a racing simulator, VR, and a Floor is Lava run over light-up tiles.

Anyone under ten needs an adult with them. Take a lap when you arrive, because across a floor this wide not everything is always working.

🧸 N2 Toys (Beauty World Centre) — claw machines done properly

N2 Toys is the pick of the claw machine shops. It is independent rather than a chain outlet, so the stock changes often, and the prizes lean towards anime and character figures instead of generic plush. Pokémon Mezastar and trading cards run alongside the machines.

It is in the basement of Beauty World Centre, a minute from Beauty World station.

Details change — confirm opening hours and what is on the floor before you travel. If something on one of our listings is out of date, there’s a form at the bottom of every one.

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— arcades.SG