What is Apple Arcade?
Apple Arcade is a monthly subscription service from Apple that gives you access to hundreds of cool online games for just $5 a month! You can play the games on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Download the Apple Arcade app and you can use it across all of your Apple devices. Another neat bonus: You can download games so you can play even when you’re offline, too!
What games are on Apple Arcade?
Apple Arcade unlocks access to more than 100 games with a monthly subscription. (They’re currently offering a free 3-month trial!) But what kinds of games can you expect to find once you sign up? Pretty much any kind of online game you can image! There are fantasy games, Apple Arcade games all about adventure, games where you can play sports, artistic games, Apple Arcade games that let you solve mysteries—and more! Check out this 30 best Apple Arcade games list. They will bring out your inner child and keep you from getting bored during quarantine. Test one of these fun Apple Arcade games out, or give all of them a try—it’s up to you!
30 Best Apple Arcade Games List
- The Pinball Wizard The Pinball Wizard is in one word: addictive. Just use your pinball paddles to launch your wizard at your enemies until the exit key can be obtained. Once you start playing, you’ll start flying through the levels and before you know it, you’ll be hooked.
- Ballistic Baseball Hey, Batter, Batter! Ballistic Baseball puts your baseball skills to the test as you square off against real opponents in a real-time PvP baseball game. You get to choose each style of pitch you throw and try to strike players out, as well as step up to the plate yourself and attempt to hit a home run.
- Tint If you’re artsy, this game is for you. Tint turns something simple like mixing paint colors into a form of puzzle solving by having you match the color of the origami on each page. As you work through the 270+ levels (yes, 270!), the game gets more difficult because you also have to start working your way through a maze.
- Overland Overland is all about survival as you find yourself taking a road trip across the United States in the midst of an apocalypse. You’ll find yourself scavenging for supplies like first aid kits, fuel, and weapons as well as being faced with whether you want to rescue a stranded survivor or fight a scary creature you see up ahead. While some games are all about taking out the enemy, this one is more about coming up with a successful escape plan, so every action you take has a consequence and you have to decide if it’s worth it or not.
- Manifold Garden Manifold Garden is a game of physics-defying puzzles. While playing, you can manipulate gravity as you attempt to not fall off the surfaces or you’ll land back at the start and have to redo everything.
- Sneaky Sasquatch Sneaky Sasquatch lets you live life as, well, a Sasquatch. In the game, you can sneak around campsites, try to disguise yourself in human clothes, find a job, adopt a dog and more! There are endless options in Sneaky Sasquatch.
- Sonic Racing On your mark, get set, go! Be one of the fifteen playable characters from the Sonic universe and compete in the ultimate high-speed race. You can choose from different tracks and play with friends or change it up and race against people from around the world when you’re in Sonic Racing’s multiplayer mode.
- Cardpocalypse Earn and trade rare Champion cards to start building your deck in Cardpocalypse. The first player to get their opponent’s Champion card’s health to zero, wins the match.
- No Way Home You’ll find yourself stranded in the galaxy in No Way Home. However, with 50+ weapons to discover, tons of aliens you can befriend, over 60 battles to fight, your party planning robot and your ship, you won’t be bored. It’s up to you to use your wits to survive being lost in space and find a way home.
- Mutazione Mutazione is an adventure that follows 15-year old Kai as she travels to take care of her grandfather, Nonno. It’s a game of twists and turns with lots of town drama and secrets along the way.
- Pac-Man Party Royal Gather your friends and play Pac-Man Party Royal. This game mixes the retro-game with a multi-player experience as you compete to eat the most Pac-man dots and catch the Super Pellet.
- Hot Lava This game is hot, hot, hot! Be prepared to jump, swing, surf and climb your way out of dangerous environments that are filled with lava. You can go at it alone or have a friend join you while playing Hot Lava. Whatever you decide, just make sure you don’t get distracted and touch the lava floor.
- Crossy Road Castle Get ready to travel through a rainbow-filled castle in this game! It’s full of all kinds of obstacles and enemies as you unlock collectables as you climb higher and higher in the dreamy tower. Crossy Road Castle’s levels even give you the option to team up alongside three friends so you have a better chance of surviving. As long as one of you makes it out of the room, you can progress.
- Steven Universe: Unleash the Light Join the Crystal Gems for the ultimate adventure in Steven Universe: Unleash the Light. Choose if you want Steven, Pearl, Amethyst, Garnet, Lapis Lazuli, Peridot or Bismuth in your party. Then face off against new Prism-wielding Gems and team up with each other to create combo attacks and Gem Fusions. You can fuse into Sunstone, Rainbow Quartz or Smoky Quartz as you go through different levels.
- Stranded Sails You’ll find yourself ship-wrecked along with your crew in Stranded Sails. With the captain injured, it’s up to you to take charge and set up camp for all the survivors. The pressure is on for you as you all make your way onto cursed islands.
- Dodo Peak Animal lovers will enjoy this Apple arcade game. It’s all about collecting coins, dodging sneaky snakes and rescuing lost baby birds. Each level gets harder and lets you unlock more dodo birds.
- Cards of Darkness Choosing the right card is what Cards of Darkness is about. Inside each stack of cards are potions, weapons, monsters, spells, and treasures. To play, you must pick a stack and eventually go through all the cards in it while trying to use them to save the world.
- Way of the Turtle Help two turtles reunite after they get stranded on a tropical island in Way of the Turtle. The island isn’t just any island, though; it’s cursed by evil magic, which makes finding each other more difficult.
- Lifeslide Taking risks will get you far in Lifeslide. The game lets you take flight as a paper plane and fly through seven stages of life. You get to choose from six different plane models and see how good of a pilot you really are.
- Creaks Creaks is a creepy puzzle game that lets you manipulate the environment and walk into a world that is hiding right behind the walls of your very own bedroom. You’ll proceed at your own pace while you try to avoid deadly monsters that inhabit it and interact with other scary thing in the unsettling place you find yourself in.
- Slash Quest With 12 unique levels, Slash Quest is a fantasy game you’ll want to be part of. It’ll be up to you to save the Queendom when you embark to find the Queen’s lost talking sword and bring it back to her castle.
- Sayonara Wild Hearts With dance battles, music and shooting lasers, Sayonara Wild Hearts is a dreamy rhythmic game. To win, you must find harmony in the game’s universe as you chase scores.
- Speed Demons From tiny hatchbacks to giant semi-trucks, Speed Demons lets you choose from 25 different vehicles and over 200 unique events. You’ll be able to race against up to 100 vehicles on-screen at once as you drive at high speeds.
- Fallen Knight Take on the role of Lancelot the 49th in the futuristic setting of Fallen Knight. It’s a fast paced sword action game that rewards you for every victory and punishes you for every mistake. And with the game’s multiple different endings, no two games are alike.
- Possessions Are your eyes playing tricks on you? That’ll be a question that comes across your mind when you play Possessions – a puzzle game featuring 3D visuals where you’ll have to look at an object from all different angles until it appears in the right place of the room.
- What the Golf? This game won’t make you a better golfer, but it’ll make you LOL. The silly game is a golf-based parody where each course offers a new type of golf. Some are hilarious and some are brilliant and some are so wacky that you’ll be saying “What the golf?”
- Spelldrifter Spelldrifter is a deck building game you’ll love. Just choose your party of heroes and embark on a journey deep into Starfall as you search for the entrance to the mysterious labyrinth. Along the way, you’ll fight battles and have to think outside the box as you juggle your resources.
- Shinsekai: Into the Depths You’ll make your way deeper and deeper into an underwater world in Shinsekai: Into the Depths. There, you’ll have to manage your oxygen levels and your suit’s pressure resistance just like you would if you were really deep ocean diving.
- Jenny LeClue – Detectivu In Jenny LeClue – Detectivu, the choices you make in the game changes how Jenny’s story is written. Along the way, you’ll help her solve a murder and untangle the truth about who really killed her mom.
- Mini Motorways Playing Mini Motorways lets you draw one road at a time to create a full-blown city. As the city grows, you must continue to redesign your city and keep up with its changing demands. It may sound simple, but successfully keeping things moving without tons of traffic jams forming and your city crumbling is harder than you may think. For more gaming fun, check out these free online games.
