One of the great subscription launches of 2019 is Apple Arcade, a service with which the Cupertino company wants to change the rules of the game of mobile video games. For 4.99 euros per month, it will offer for all users that subscribe a service in which the current monetization techniques via micro-payments or advertising that the entire industry has followed will not be accommodated.
The launch of Apple Arcade was planned for September 19. However, users who are already on iOS 13 or iOS 13.1 beta are allowed to access the App Store from September 16. The subscription process can not be easier, because Arcade is shown as a highlight more more from the bottom bar of the App Store on iOS, next to ‘Today’, ‘Games’, ‘Apps’ and ‘Search’.
When accessing, a button appears, ‘Try it for free’, on which pressing the classic iOS subscription message appears, where Apple warns that after the test month, Apple Arcade will suppose 4.99 euros per month, with the same price for ‘In Family’. Before subscribing, Face ID facial recognition is requested and, after being verified, we will be able to play the catalog that we will now review.
Video games released in the Apple Arcade catalog
Since its introduction, the list of video game developers that has confirmed that it will release titles in Apple Arcade has been enlarged. Downloading games is as easy as ever in an app store. Clicking on ‘Get’ starts the download, and you don’t need an Internet connection to play once they have been installed. These are all the titles that can be played as of today:
- Oceanhorn 2
- Hot Lava
- Sayonara Wild Hearts
- Mutazione
- Over the Alps
- Assemble with Care
- Dodo Peak
- Lego Brawls
- Frogger in Toy Town
- Grindstone
- Overland
- Cat Quest II
- Mini Motorways
- Don’t Bug Me !
- Spaceland
- The Pinball Wizard
- tint.
- Spek.
- Projection: First Light
- Speed Demons
- Big Time Sports
- Dead End Job
- Cricket Through the Ages
- Bleak Sword
- Exit the Gungeon
- Agent Intercept
- Shantae and the Seven Sirens
- What the golf ?
- Card of Darkness
- Reasons
- Stellar Commanders
- Where Cards Fall
- Rayman Mini
- Punch Planet
- Sneaky Sasquatch
- Operator 41
- Red Reign
- Various Daylife
- King’s League II
- Explottens
- Spelldrifter
- The Get Out Kids
- Way of the Turtle
- Lifeside
- Neo Cab
- Skate City
- Enchanted world
- Shinsekai Into the Depths
- Word Laces
- Dear Reader
- ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree
- Tangle Tower
- Dread Nautical
As we see, it is a catalog that is clear that at the moment it does not point to hardcore gamers, nor probably it intends, but for 4.99 euros it offers to play new games like Oceanhorn 2, whose predecessor has a cost of 8.99 euros in the App Store. It will have to be the player who considers whether this catalog is sufficient.
It should be noted that if during the trial period you cancel the subscription, Apple does not allow you to play more for free, having to pay even if the first month has not yet been fulfilled. This is a substantial difference with the traditional trial period of other great technology.