One of the best Apple Arcade video games for 2025

It’s been practically six years since Apple Arcade launched, and whereas the service hasn’t totally delivered on Apple’s promise again in 2019, it may well nonetheless be value paying for. In fact, that’s supplied you’re keen to hunt by way of the 200-ish video games at present obtainable on the service. I’ve been taking part in Apple Arcade video games because it launched and these are only a few of my favorites which have stood the take a look at of time.

Finest Apple Arcade video games of 2025

What’s Apple Arcade?

Apple initially launched Apple Arcade with the promise of high-quality, unique video games which are playable throughout principally each machine the corporate makes. That features the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV (although you want a controller for the latter). Over time, Apple began permitting video games initially launched within the App Retailer as nicely, supplied that they met sure standards. All Apple Arcade video games are ad-free and haven’t any in-app purchases, one thing that actually helps differentiate its choices over the flood of low-quality video games within the App Retailer.

Whereas Apple Arcade launched with a reasonably wonderful lineup, further video games have sadly been fewer and farther between lately. Apple has additionally pulled plenty of video games from the service, together with a number of the finest ones you possibly can get like Sayonara Wild Hearts, Cozy Grove, Assemble with Care, Shinsekai: Into the Depths and quite a few others. It’s a reminder that with a subscription service, issues can go away at any time.

Whereas we’re not seeing the identical cadence of high-quality authentic video games on Apple Arcade as we did a couple of years in the past, I nonetheless suppose the service is definitely worth the $7 monthly or $50 per yr subscription in case you do quite a lot of gaming in your cellphone. A number of the finest video games within the historical past of the App Retailer are right here (something with a “plus” image denotes a sport that was initially offered within the App Retailer after which delivered to Apple Arcade), and there are nonetheless plenty of wonderful originals value taking part in. It’s value noting that the “plus” video games weren’t designed with Mac or Apple TV playback in thoughts and thus solely work on an iPhone or iPad. These 16 video games are a number of the finest you possibly can play, and there are a bunch extra I wish to attempt for future inclusion on this listing. Within the meantime, this needs to be greater than sufficient to get you began.

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