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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 25 arcades
Best arcades in Singapore
The 10 most notable arcades in Singapore, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Timezone Northpoint City
930 Yishun Ave 2, #03-30 / 31 Northpoint
145 m from Yishun MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.363, percentile 100 of 25
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2
Clique Gaming Cybercafe
35 Selegie Rd, B1-16 Parklane Shopping Mall
224 m from Bencoolen MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.273, percentile 95.83 of 25
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3
Overworld VR
1 Stadium Pl, #01-63/64 Wave Mall, Singapore Sports Hub
200 m from Stadium MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.173, percentile 91.67 of 25
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4
VR World
8A Sago St
151 m from Maxwell MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.149, percentile 87.5 of 25
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5
Timezone Jurong Point - Arcade Games, Kids Birthday Parties
1 Jurong West Central 2, JP1 #02-45, Jurong Point Shopping Centre
154 m from Boon Lay MRT station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.146, percentile 83.33 of 25
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6
VR Zone
Orchard Rd, 176号The CentrePoint#04-10
181 m from Somerset MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.049, percentile 79.17 of 25
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7
govr.sg
North Bridge Centre, 420 North Bridge Rd
332 m from Bugis MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.994, percentile 75 of 25
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8
Zero Latency Singapore
3 Temasek Boulevard Suntec City Mall 002F347
434 m from Esplanade MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.946, percentile 70.83 of 25
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9
Timezone City Square Mall
180 Kitchener Road, Mall, #04-24 / 29 City Square
312 m from Farrer Park MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.940, percentile 66.67 of 25
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10
Cow Play Cow Moo
Cow Play Cow Moo, Suntec City Mall, 3 Temasek Blvd
298 m from Promenade MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.869, percentile 62.5 of 25
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).