Apple has created the mobile arcade to triumph over all mobile arcades, and we are excited! Apple Arcade showcases more than 100 new and exclusive games. It is available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. So if you are an Apple user on any device, you can take advantage of this gaming subscription!
Currently available in Apple Arcade
Survival
Overland
Staff Pick
Overland is an extreme post-apocalyptic survival game where you search for supplies, rescue strangers, and battle creatures to make it through alive.
Cute and whimsical
Guildings
From the creator of the award-winning puzzle game Threes!, comes a new cute fantasy RPG filled with adventure. Join Coda and her Guild of unconventional heroes as you explore the vibrant lands of Worldaria. With beautiful scenery and a cute story, Guildings is sure to be a whole lot of fun.
Bring back the color
Discolored
A diner in the middle of the desert seems to have lost all its color. Exploring the desolate locale and solve the puzzles to bring back color to the world.
Get on a roll
Marble It Up: Mayhem!
Roll your marbles all of this colorful and crazy world to complete challenges and progress through the campaign. Be careful not to roll right off the edge of the world as you hunt down those gems!
GOOOOOOAAAALLLLL!
Socialable Soccer
This fun, bite-sized soccer game offers you the ability to manage your own team and knock out a few soccer matches against players from around the world.
Family comes first
Takeshi and Hiroshi
Combining puppet animation with an RPG, Takeshi and Hiroshi explores the story of two brothers as they create and play a game together. Brotherly love has never been so cute!
Take me to your leader
UFO on Tape: First Contact
What would you do if you saw a real UFO? Take out your phone and start recording! Speed around the country looking for evidence of aliens and try to figure out whether the Earth’s new visitors are friend or foe.
Play UFO on Tape: First Contact
Escape the Dungeon
Exit the Gungeon
Race to escape the hell dungeon while dodging and going through treacherous obstacles and opponents.
Sequels galore
Shantae and the Seven Sirens
You play as Shantae, who is a half-genie hero who visits what seems to be a tropical paradise. Trouble arises, and you will have to explore new towns, escape labyrinths, and defeat bosses. You will also be able to adjust Shantae’s powers to suit your gaming style.
Play Shantae and the Seven Sirens
Multiplayer Legos
Lego Brawls
Lego is multiplayer in this building and rebuilding adventure game. Build your own heroes and work together to go through the levels. You can even turn your Apple TV into the scoreboard.
Houses of Cards
Where Cards Fall
The main game mechanic is to build buildings and pathways of cards, but it is a lot more than just that. You will also complete puzzles and use the spaces you create. This game is immersive. Explore physics and this card world as you can create based on your imagination.
Ant race
Rayman Mini
As the size of an ant, Rayman tries to make it through the world as fast as possible to achieve the best score.
Real or Myth?
Sneaky Sasquatch
Play as an adorable sasquatch as you sneak around in disguises, steal lunches, and play golf… You know, normal sasquatch stuff.
Extreme Leapfrog
Frogger in Toy Town
Jump through obstacles ranging from blocks to babies while you rescue frogs and collect jellybeans. This colorful game is high energy and a blast to work your way through.
Explorers
Various Daylife
Discover and explore a new continent while living your character’s best life in this Imperial Era RPG.
Incredible Visuals
Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm
Breathtaking. The visuals on this game are amazing. This game is a prequel of the first Oceanhorn game and set 1000 years earlier. You will be able to explore dungeons and collect treasures, all while discovering the gorgeous landscapes.
Play Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm
Sk8ter Boi
Skate City
This multi-touch game will make you feel like you are really skating through the streets as if it were your own personal playground, which is great because some of us never learned how to skateboard.
Tile Puzzle Adventure
The Enchanted World
On a journey to piece the world back together, you will explore meadows, dive deep into caves, and go through deserts to solve the puzzles.
Submersive fun
Shinsekai: Into the Depths
This game takes place in an underwater world where the water is frozen over. You must battle creatures of the depths and collect items along the way to survive and explore the new world.
Play Shinsekai: Into the Depths
Ancient Cultures
Projection: First Light
Play as Greta as you journey through a mythological shadow puppet world.
Story Driven Puzzle
Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree
Cool Indie Game
Players will venture out as a young warrior named Estra in search of answers for her father’s death. Gameplay will include complex puzzles and rhythm game battle sequences in the 2D world.
Play Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree
Broken Heart
Sayonara Wild Hearts
This is a pop soundtrack game where you play the role of a masked biker called The Fool. The Fool is trying to find harmony in the universe while trying to gain back the pieces of your heart.
Retro-inspried puzzler
Assemble with Care
From the developers of the beloved Monument Valley series, comes a puzzle game that tasks you to fix old trinkets and gadgets one screw at a time!
Sharp wit and sword required
Grindstone
Battle your way through 150 levels of Grindstone mountain defeating creeps along the way. You’ll need a sharp wit to solve the puzzle and a sharp sword to cut up the critters!
FOUR!
What the Golf
The golf game for people who hate golf, get ready to fling yourself, birds, cars, and everything else but a golf play in this wacky physics-based golf game.
Cute animations
Card of Darkness
Cast spells, slay monsters, and save the world in this beautifully animated adventure game with card play mechanics.
Use the clues
Patterned
Use the clues to help solve each jigsaw puzzle — each of which starts as a simple sketch. With any luck, by the end of each level, you’ll have a beautiful full-screen piece of art.
Multiplayer RTS
Stellar Commander
This one-vs-one strategy game will have you fighting over control for planets. You have seven minutes to beat your opponent, or the entire plant will explode!
Sci-fi tactics
Spaceland
Classic tactical grid-style turn-based combat with a sci-fi twist, Spaceland gives you access to multiple units, weapons, and more!
High-speed spies
Agent Intercept
You’re part of a high-speed chase, and it’s going to take all the skill you have and stunts you can pull off to catch the bad guys!
Arcade fighter
Punch Planet
This 2D sci-fi fighting game has all the charm of classic arcade fighters — with special moves, interesting characters, and a ton of finger tapping action!
Be sneaky
Operator 41
Help the spy call headquarters with vital info be stealthily making your way to the telephone. Watch out for guards, cameras, lasers, and other obstacles in your way.
Defend your base
Red Reign
Build up your base and defend it from other players, with over 20 different types of units in this real-time strategy game.
No more traffic jams
Mini Motorways
Mini Motorways is a successor to the wonderful Mini Metro, Mini Motorways tasks you with fixing traffic jams and helping everyone get to work on time.
Tower Defence
Don’t Bug Me!
Bugs are attacking your base on the planet Mars, and they need to be squashed. Manage your resources and defend your base with a little bit of first-person shooter action and special skills.
Climb the league
King’s League II
Train and manage your troops as you try to climb the King’s League. Lead your team into tactical combat and win the battles and the glory.
Shoot ’em up
Explottens
Explottens is a chaotic shoot ’em up style game where the evil cats of KLAW have all but enslaved kitten-kind. Blast them out of the sky and take back the land of Catmandu.
Deck-building RPG
Spelldrifter
A cool hybrid of tactical RPG combat and deck-building mechanics, Spelldrifter will make you think hard to defeat your enemies.
Find your dog
The Get Out Kids
The Get Out Kids is a narrative puzzle game that will have your sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night, searching for your missing dog. Nothing is quite as it seems, and you may find yourself in the middle of a mystery!
Line art puzzle
Spek.
Fill with unique line art, wonderful soundscapes, and vibrant colors, Spek. will ensure you never look at a square the same way again.
3D Side Scroller
Way of the Turtle
A wonderfully wacky 3D platformer, Way of the Turtle will have you jumping, collecting coins, and navigating across a dangerous island.
Take Flight
Lifeslide
Play as a paper plane soaring through the sky, avoiding obstacles along the way!
Driving in the future
Neo Cab
One of the last human cab drivers left, you’ll need to pick up fares, navigate the futuristic city, and maintain a good rating to stay on the road.
Relaxing painting
tint.
Solve puzzles by painting and mixing colors. No rush, just a relaxing and soothing experience.
Travel back in time
Over the Alps
It’s 1939 in Switzerland, and you’re on the run. You’ll need to make hard choices that affect the outcome of the game as you make your way across Europe.
Magic Pinball
The Pinball Wizard
Shoot the tiny wizard around the dungeon, level up your skills, and ascend the castle.
Collect shoes
Word Laces
Ties the words together with shoelaces to solve the puzzles, in this simple and fun word puzzle game.
Definition of fun
Dear Reader
Classic books become puzzles as Dear Reader mixes up prose and tasks you for putting it back together properly!
Sports simplified
Big Time Sports
A fun and fast-paced game where you’ll need to tap, swipe, and press the screen all sorts of different ways to compete for the best time in several sporting events.
Rogue-like RPG
Dread Nautical
This tactical turn-based RPG has rogue-like elements as you face the supernatural forces trying to skip your ship!
High stakes
Mutazoine
Mutazoine is a high stakes, emotionally-charged adventure game with beautiful hand-drawn visuals.
8-bit style art
Bleak Sword
In Bleak Sword, you’ll struggle across compact battlefields by striking down a bunch of different monsters in this dark fantasy game.
Ghoul busting action
Dead End Job
You play as hector and employee of Ghoul-B-Gone, who is an expert at Ghoul busting. The vibrant cartoon-style art makes this game look as charming as it is nostalgic.
Purr-fect
Cat Quest II
A sequel to the wonderful adventure RPG, Cat Quest, you’ll be sharping your claws and making more cat-related puns than you can handle!
Not dead yet
Dodo Peak
Play as a Dodo bird trying to navigate the dangerous peaks and save your babies from perishing!
Funny history
Cricket Through the Ages
Throw balls, swing bats, and hope you don’t end up in pieces. Go through the ages — both past and future — in this silly physics-based game about one of the world’s most popular sports.
Racing Mayhem
Speed Demons
Satisfy your need for speed with this fast-paced racing game with eight different gameplay modes. Will you crash? Most definitely — that’s all part of the fun.
Tiny Detective
Jenny LeClue – Detectivu
Play as the character Jenny, who has to defend her mother from being charged for murder. She explores, finds clues, and has to grow up a lot in this mystery adventure game.
Save the World
Cardpocalypse
A single-player card game that allows you to change the rules and the cards as you play to save your school and the world.
Wonderful Puzzle Planet
ChuChu Rocket! Universe
Play over 100 incredible puzzles on different planets — an upgraded version of Sega’s classic game.
Random Levels
EarthNight
With randomly generated levels, you will never feel stagnant in this side-scrolling runner. All of the beautifully pictured levels are hand-painted too.
Let’s Get Moving!
Sonic Racing
This recognizable character has a lot of people talking. Will this be a Team Sonic Racing game or just a twist on a classic character. Less than one week away until you can start your Sonic Racing campaigns.
Eight-legged Dinosaur
Spidersaurs
This action-packed game doesn’t have a ton of information out. However, what we do know is it is created by the same developers that created Shantae, but this one will be exclusively on Apple Arcade.
Racing
Super Impossible Road
Set on galactic backdrops, this racing game will be incredibly challenging as you will have to master high speed turns and race your way to victory.
Fight epic demons
Towaga: Among Shadows
Towaga: Among Shadows is an intense 2D single-person hand-drawn action-adventure game. We know very little about how to play, but the trailer for it is absolutely gorgeous.
Rich Narrative
The Bradwell Conspiracy
The story is set in 2026. You survive an explosion at a corporate event and discover another survivor. Go through the game and ask questions to uncover a deep-seated conspiracy in the mega-company, Bradwell Electronics.
Space Assault
Redout: Space Assault
Play as an ace fighter pilot in 2395 in charge of maintaining order. Shoot at space pirates, blow up enemy ships, and collection new weapons to battle in space!
Cool original music
Pligrims
This wonderfully animated adventure game will make you collect items and flex your brain muscles to figure out how to use the items!
Weird farming
Nightmare Farm
This weird farming game features some beautiful artwork, and transports you to the farm of nightmares. Keep your guests happy and grow your crops, and you just might find your way out!
A lonely adventure
The Mosaic
The Mosiac is a surreal adventure game about isolation, and just how lonely adult life can sometimes be.
Multiplayer mini-games
Super Mega Mini Party
Compete with players from around the world in eight different mini-games. The cute graphics and quick playtime make it really fun.
Defend the universe
Star Fetched
A sci-fi platformer with beautiful artwork and plenty of exploration built-in!
Fishing for the right beat
Monomals
Fish for beats. Compose your music. Share your fishy beats online.
30-second rewind
Jumper Jon
Turning the rogue-like platformer on its head, Jumper Jon is a game where you die every 30 seconds, but you get to keep items and abilities.
Coming soon to Apple Arcade
Choose your characters
Steven Universe: Unleash The Light
Editor’s Pick
Cartoon Network developed this game based on the animated series. You will play as Steven and learn how to use your powers to help protect the universe.
AI Future Plot
Beyond a Steel Sky
A 3D adventure where the future holds an AI-controlled utopia. You will play as a character that is vowed to rescue a child who has been kidnapped and brought to Union City.
Mysterious Ride
HitchHiker
In this eerie game, you will play a hitchhiker and get rides from strangers in each section of the game. You will be faced with decisions to steer the conversations and change the gameplay.
Brick by brick
Lego Arthouse
This is a celebration of play itself and speaks to how people don’t grow up; they stop playing. Arthouse targets a more mature audience and is meant to inspire creativity to the masses.
Top Secret
Little Orpheus
A cryptic game of coded telegrams based in Russia. Described by the game programmers as a “pocket-epic in glorious technicolor.”
Teaser Image
No Way Home
The game developers, SMG, posted this teaser image with nothing else, and they are not giving anything else away. So we can safely assume there are multiple species on this colorful adventurous game.
Arachnophobia
Spyder
We can only assume that this game has to do with a spy device in the disguise of a spider. Either way, the few teaser images and GIFs have us excited about the gameplay.
Going on a trip
The Artful Escape
While on a quest for self-discovery, you will explore a colorful world as a musician named Francis Vendetti and let the music take you away.
Make good choices
Yaga
A role-playing action game where your decisions will change your progression. This folktale will change every time you play it, so even if you think you are done… there are so many infinite possibilities.
Other Titles Confirmed for Apple Arcade
- Box Project (Developers: Mediocre Mel)
- Doomsday Vault (Developers: Flightless)
- Enter the Construct (Developers: Directive Games)
- Possessions (Developers: Noodlecake and Lucid Labs)
- Repair (Developers: UsTwo Games)
Players, are you ready?
Apple has really set the stage with this amazing line up of developers and games. With no ads, one low price, and endless gaming possibilities, it is going to be very interesting to see how this changes mobile gaming. In this huge mix of games, there is something for everyone, even the most serious gamers. It is almost unbelievable that these developers and Apple were able to create something so rich in content for a small hand-held device.
While we have tried to put all of the games that have been released on this list, we know there is way more than this that hasn’t been revealed, so we will update this list as we discover new games. Since Apple has opened the door to developers for the Apple Arcade, you can only expect more as time goes on.
Source of the article – iMore