13 Cool Games to Play on Apple Arcade

Having games on your phone can be a great stress-buster and help you pass the time, especially when you’re on transport.

If you’re an Apple product user, you can enjoy a vast collection of games on Apple Arcade. It’s a game subscription marketplace that offers more than 200 exciting premium games from talented developers eager to give you the best gaming experience.

You can access Apple Arcade on iPhone, iPad, iPad touch, Mac, and Apple TV. It can be accessed on the Apple Store using the Arcade tab.

Here are some of the many reasons why you’d love Apple Arcade:

• New games are added every week
• Games on Apple Arcade are ad-free, and there are no in-app purchases
• You can elevate your gaming experience with controller support by integrating it with Siri remote, Xbox wireless controllers, MFi game controllers, and PlayStation DualShock 4
• It allows you to set screen time and parental controls
• All the games are available online and offline as it also gives you the option to download them and play offline

Let’s quickly touch upon a little more about Apple Arcade.

Apple Arcade subscription & pricing 💲

First, the great news is that new Apple device holders get three months of free subscription, so if you’re someone who’s just got their hands on a new iPhone or other Apple device, you’re eligible for this offer.

In general, Apple Arcade offers one month free trial for everybody, after which you have to pay $4.99/month. With family sharing, you can share your account with up to 5 different family members.

Also, If you purchase Apple One, you can combine Apple Arcade with iTunes, Apple TV, and iCloud at a low monthly price.

Categories of games you’ll find on Apple Arcade 🎮

Apple Arcade includes various games to suit all genres and generations, such as adventure, action, puzzle, mystery, strategy, sports, simulation, and more. You’d also find timeless classics that take you back to the good old times.

Now that you’re familiar with Apple Arcade let’s check out the best Apple Arcade games that you can lay your hands on right away.

A Fold Apart

An award-winning puzzle game, A Fold Apart, is a story of a couple – A teacher and an architect in a long-distance relationship.

Now that they are away from each other, they are in turmoil in the complexities of miscommunication and emotional ups and downs. 

In this game, you have to save their relationship in the world of folding paper. Choose the couple which suits you the best and start folding, flipping, and unfolding the paper to overcome the barriers of their relationship.

Backgammon

An absolute classic, this board game called Backgammon dates back almost 5000 years. Apple Arcade has brought this to life using a wooden board and atmosphere from the screen. Strategy, skill, and luck are the ingredients you have to master to win this game. 

You can play this game alone, with friends, or with online players. It supports horizontal and vertical board orientations.

The game is pretty simple – each player gets 15 checkers of a different color, which they have to move around the board by the numbers rolled by a pair of dice. 🎲

The first player to get all his checkers around and off the board wins the game.

Oddmar

Awarded as ‘The Game of the Year’ by Stuff Magazine and Touch Arcade, Oddmar is a super cute Viking who struggles with his life in his village and is shunned by his peers. Thus, he is thrown out of Valhalla and on a journey to find his worth at a price. 

This game consists of 24 tantalizing adventurous and comical environments, handcrafted and developed by the team behind Leo’s Fortune’s award-winning game.

This handcrafted game consists of physics-based puzzles and platforming challenges supported by magical forests, weapons, shields, snowy mountains, friends, and foes. You can also play this game with a gaming controller.

NBA 2K22 Arcade Edition

An ultimate paradise for basketball lovers, NBA 2K22 Arcade Edition, is an exclusive of the best-selling NBA 2K series only for Apple Arcade users.

You can play in 1v1, 3v3, or 5v5 game modes alongside legends like:

• Luka Doncic
• Damian Lillard
• Kevin Durant
• Jayson Tatum
• Zion Williamson
• Anthony Davis
• Rui Hachimura
• Karl-Anthony Towns

Choose your favorite NBA team and challenge competitors in a quick match featuring 2022 NBA roasters. 

You can also start your own NBA career by building your dream team, scouting for upcoming stars, hiring free agents, making trades, and managing your team’s finances.

It allows you to choose your character, team jersey with a number, and position in matches. Controller optimization and cross-platform game options will let you play online with friends or other teams. 

Badland Party

Played by over 150 million users worldwide, Badland Party is a sequel to the award-winning Apple Arcade game of the year Badland and Badland 2.

With multiple worlds, epic boss fights, 30 unlockable characters, and competitive party play modes with 40 levels, this game is equipped with stunning graphics, immersive sound, and innovative physics-based gameplay. 

Talking about the gaming experience, you can play Badland Party with a gaming controller and split screen controls. You can choose to play with your friends, as an online player, or as a simple AI companion.

It also features leaderboards fostering healthy competition and provides timely missions, challenges, and achievements to keep that rush going.

Manifold Garden

Manifold Garden welcomes you to a world where the laws of physics and geometry are different. 

In this Escheresque, geometry repeats infinitely in every direction, resulting in you falling back to the direction right where you started. You now must defy gravity with a new perspective and fill the barren world with vegetation. 

Stored with mind-bending puzzles and striking visuals, this game offers you a chance to look at the world from different perspectives. It also allows you to explore the famous Escheresque architecture in infinitely repeating ways.

Assemble with Care

A completely hand-illustrated story in 12 objects, Assemble with Care revolves around Maria – an antique restorer who arrives in the town of Bellariva, which turns out to be broken.

Join her in a quest to save the town’s inhabitant’s most beloved possessions and help them reconnect with themselves and the town. 

Additionally, the game offers nostalgia in leaps and bounds as the sounds of the 80s inspire it. Rendered in an impressionist style, exploring the objects through Maria’s lens is a captivating journey you can join through this game. 

Skate City

Have you wondered what it would be like to skate around the world? Well, here’s your chance to experience it by playing Skate City.

Set the vibe right by wearing your earphones and stroll around the city with some lo-fi music. This game allows you to choose your characters, individual style, and skating abilities.

Starting from sun-basked LA, you will find yourself skating through the streets of Barcelona, Miami, and Oslo with unexpected weather changes in no time.

While this game may sound chill, you can also choose to challenge yourself by playing it with a friend or take on challenges in each city you visit to make it more intense.

Alto’s Odyssey – Remastered

As the name suggests, join Alto and his friends to find the Lost City while traveling through different biomes, The Dunes, The Canyons, The Temples, and finally, The Lost City. 

Alto’s Odyssey – Remastered has six unique characters with different abilities, and it lets you unravel new secrets in hot air balloons, moving grind rails, wall riding, and wingsuiting.

Don’t hesitate to unlock the mysteries of the desert and tower-giant buildings. If the challenges become too much, you can meditate using the Zen mode, which distills Odysseys to its purest mode of experience, free from scores, coins, and power-ups.

If you’re feeling fancy, feel free to take pictures from your trip to the desert and share them with your friends and family. 

Fantasian

Fantasian is a breathtaking adventure curated by Hironobu Sakaguchi with soundtracks composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

However, this is just the start. This Asian game is made with 160 dioramas that blend physical environments and 3D characters. Each part focuses on the story of the characters, followed by quests that give you the freedom to explore the environment.

This game also has cool features, such as sending your enemies into a separate dimensional dungeon, allowing an uninterrupted exploration of the world.

You can also choose to swap characters as per strategy demands and use power-ups to turn the tide of the battle. 

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

Are you looking for a feel-good game that has adventure and exploration and has you doing good deeds? Well, that’s what Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is all about, and she does all of it in her Mediterranean adventure to an island full of serene beaches, ancient castles, warm towns, and many animals.

Termed ‘Chillectathon,’ this game gives you the freedom to complete the adventure at your own pace.

All you need to do is find different species of animals, gather volunteers, find AIWRL and save the island with Alba’s grandfather. The cherry on the cake? The music is co-composed by Lorena Alvarez. 

The visuals are vivid and soothing enough to take you back to your childhood. 

Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls

Experience a new story in an action-packed gothic fantasy series that features character designs by Ayami Kojima and music by Michiru Yamane. With 60 levels, multiple challenges, and new characters to unlock, Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls has a lot to offer. 

As the levels progress, you can unlock other legendary characters like Simon Belmont, Charlotte, Shanoa, and Maria. Master them all to defeat powerful enemies and fearsome bosses.

The Oregon Trail

Your strategy, decision-making, and survival skills will decide the fate of your Oregon trail. Choose to set out on an unforgettable journey with your party and overcome hundreds of difficulties you will face on the way.

From snake bites to broken limbs to surviving blizzards, every decision you take will affect your’s and your party’s fate. 

Now, you can also choose the native American characters and learn more about real people with the help of an interactive journey.

You will also learn management by managing your party’s resources, health, morale, and casualties in 7 quests inspired by historical events. Don’t forget to enjoy the original soundtrack and stunning visuals.

Conclusion

Apple Arcade offers a wide array of games that will amuse your interest and keep you hooked. If you’re a casual gamer looking forward to playing fun games, then Apple Arcade is for you. Besides, it works well for Apple family members, and the features are worth the deal.

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