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Looking for arcades in Houston? Here are 20 of them, with the details parents check first: price, opening hours and the right age range.
20 arcades in the Houston area20 arcades in the Houston area.
Sorted by distance from Houston, nearest first. Straight-line miles, so every drive is longer.
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Where a card says no price or no hours listed, the venue does not publish it. We would rather leave the gap than fill it with a guess. Prices come from each venue's own website, and we publish one only when the figure appears on the page we took it from. Tell us if we are missing one you know.
We list 20 arcades within 78 miles of Houston, TX. Every one is a published listing with an address we checked.
2 of the 20 here do, and each price was checked word for word against the venue's own page before we published it. The rest do not publish one, so their card says no price listed rather than carrying a guess.
We list every one we have within 78 miles of the center of Houston. Each is a published place with an address we geocoded and checked, and the business can claim its listing to keep the hours and prices current.
It varies more than you would expect, from free to full price, and it changes the cost of a visit by a lot when there are two of you. The price on each card is what it costs to get a child in. 2 of the 20 on this page publish a price at all, so call ahead about the adult rate before you rely on it.
No. These are walk-in, and quieter on a weekday afternoon. Where a venue publishes a booking page, the listing links straight to it.
A card for credit rather than a bag of quarters, and a budget. Redemption prizes cost far more in play than they do in a shop. Whatever else you need is in the notes beside the listings above.
Houston has 21 categories of kid-friendly places on Mini Navigators, from playgrounds and museums to splash pads and zoos. The Houston hub lists all of them.
Listings last checked 10/14/2026.