Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter will voice Bill and Ted in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: Arcade, a retro-style game reported by VGC. It’s coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC.
Reeves and Winter played Bill and Ted in all three movies. It’s another recent voice role for Reeves, after voicing a samurai puppet in Hidari. Australian studio Art of Play Interactive is making the game. Its earlier modern retro titles include Danger Mouse, Lady Death: Demonicron, and The Phantom. According to VGC, it looks mainly like a side-scrolling beat ’em up in the style of 16-bit arcade games.
You “bag all the historical figures from the movie”, then challenge them to mini-games to earn their respect and a spot in your on-stage history report. You can play solo or in two-player co-op, with Bill and Ted together.
Art of Play plans a digital release plus a limited run of physical editions, including one in SNES-style packaging. To fund the final stages of development, the studio will run a Backerkit campaign selling exclusive merchandise, apparel, and digital and physical copies.
Backers will get a metallic phone booth card showing Rufus, George Carlin’s character in the movie. A $5 reservation will add Bill and Ted cards. Backing in the first 48 hours will add a fourth card showing historical figures squeezed against the glass, plus booth top and bottom cards that join everything together.
Art of Play also pledged not to use generative AI:
We are a strictly no generative AI studio across all our titles. This also extends to our trailer and supporting marketing materials.
Art of Play Interactive
The Backerkit campaign will launch in early 2027, and you can sign up for a notification now.
