Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: Arcade announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC

Your favorite time-travelling heroes return.

Art of Play has announced side-scrolling arcade action adventure game Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: Arcade for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC (Steam). A release date was not announced. A crowdfunding campaign is planned.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

Join Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan in this most excellent action adventure 16-bit arcade game! Bag and challenge famous figures from history in preparation for your report, oh and save the world while you’re at it!
Play as Bill or Ted, or team up for some couch cooperative multiplayer in this 15-level side-scrolling arcade action game. You’ll get the chance to meet all of the characters from the original movie as you battle through time to save the future. Find Billy the Kid, Socrates, Napoleon, Beethoven and Ghengis Khan and go head-to-head with them in unique mini-games in order to win them over to help you on your quest.
High-octane action, lovingly hand-crafted pixel art, and a killer 80s rock soundtrack bring your favorite time-travelling heroes to the arcade… Take on story mode, to unlock arcade mode, mini games and more.

Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.