Apple Arcade launches early for some users with 50+ games
Subscription service officially available from Thursday
Apple Arcade has reportedly gone live early for some iOS users, featuring over 50 games.
While the $4.99/£4.99 subscription service doesn’t officially launch until Thursday September 19, 9to5Mac reports it’s already been made available to selected users running the iOS 13 or iOS 13.1 public beta.
Those able to participate can select the ‘Arcade’ tab from the App Store and choose the option to ‘Try it free,’ enabling them to launch a one-month free trial.
Apple Arcade launch details were announced during a special Apple event at the company’s Cupertino headquarters in September.
While Apple has confirmed plans to release over 100 “new and exclusive games” for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV service, MacRumours has published a list of over 50 titles currently available to early users:
- Assemble With Care (usTwo)
- Shantae and the Seven Sirens (WayForward Technologies)
- Grindstone (Capybara Games)
- WHAT THE GOLF? (The Label)
- Card of Darkness (Zach Gage)
- LEGO Brawls (LEGO)
- Patterned (Borderleap)
- Stellar Commanders (Blindflug Studios)
- Where Cards Fall (Snowman)
- Overland (Finji)
- Exit the Gungeon (Devolver Digital)
- Rayman Mini (Ubisoft)
- Spaceland (Tortuga Team)
- Agent Intercept (PikPok)
- Punch Planet (Block Zero Games)
- Sneaky Sasquatch (Rac7 Games)
- Operator 41 (Shifty Eye Games)
- Frogger in Toy Town (Konami)
- Red Reign (Ninja Kiwi)
- Various Daylife (Square Enix)
- Mini Motorways (Dinosaur Polo Club)
- Don’t Bug Me! (Frosty Pop)
- Oceanhorn 2 (Cornfox & Bros)
- King’s League II (Kurechii)
- Explottens (Werplay Priv.)
- Spelldrifter (Free Range Games)
- The Get Out Kids (Frosty Pop)
- Spek. (Rac7 Games)
- Way of the Turtle (Illusion Labs)
- Lifeslide (Block Zero Games)
- Neo Cab (Surprise Attack Games)
- Skate City (Snowman)
- Tint. (Lykke Studios)
- The Enchanted World (Noodlecake Studios)
- Over the Alps (Stave Studios)
- Hot Lava (Klei Entertainment)
- The Pinball Wizard (Frosty Pop)
- Shinsekai Into the Depths (Capcom)
- Word Laces (Minimega)
- Dear Reader (Local No. 12)
- Projection: First Light (Blowfish Studios)
- ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree (Wildboy Studios)
- Big Time Sports (Frosty Pop)
- Tangle Tower (SFB Games)
- Dread Nautical (Zen Studios)
- Mutazione (Die Gute Fabrik)
- Bleak Sword (Devolver Digital)
- Sayonara Wild Hearts (Annapurna)
- Dead End Job (Headup)
- Cat Quest II (The Gentlebros)
- Dodo Peak (Moving Pieces)
- Cricket Through the Ages (Devolver Digital)Speed Demons (Radiangames)
Apple Arcade games won’t be available on any other mobile platform or in any other subscription service. Users can play them across multiple devices, enabling them to start a game on one platform, then resume their game session on another.
Revolution Software’s Charles Cecil recently told VGC he hopes Apple Arcade will significantly increase the audience for premium games on mobile.
