Apple Arcade Adding Two New Games in March

[MacRumors]

In an emailed press release today, Apple revealed two additional games that will be available through Apple Arcade starting Thursday, March 6. Those games are Piano Tiles 2+ and Crazy Eights: Card Games+ for the iPhone and iPad.

Piano Tiles 2+ description:

The original and all-time classic piano game is getting fine-tuned with exciting new features for Apple Arcade. Players around the world can tap along to their favorite tunes, joining over 1 billion fans in this satisfying rhythm game. Players must avoid the white tiles and tap the black ones in perfect sync with the melody to achieve the highest score. With smoother gameplay, no ads, and an expansive music library featuring genres like classical, dance, and ragtime, Piano Tiles 2+ delivers endless challenges.

Crazy Eights: Card Games+ description:

Crazy Eights: Card Games+ is the classic card game reimagined with unique new rules, an exciting competitive leaderboard, various modes, and fun new themes. Players match cards by color or number in a race to shed their hand first, offering an engaging mix of luck and fast-paced strategy. With unique twists like stacking +2 cards, strategic Wild 8, Skip Queen, and Reverse Ace cards – every round becomes a fun battle of wits.

Accessible through the App Store, Apple Arcade is a subscription-based service that provides access to hundreds of games across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, all free of ads and in-app purchases. In the U.S., Apple Arcade costs $6.99 per month and is bundled with other Apple services in all Apple One plans.

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[Lwii2boo]

Maybe unpopular opinion on MR but Apple Arcade is so bad it's embarrassing...
Apple wants to grab those juicy "services" revenues while doing zero efforts to develop themselves games or incentive decently enough third party devs. It's a deserved L.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Two more games I won't even download. They have many games that aren't worth the time to read the description. IMO if course. I'm not exactly a 13 year old. Lol

 

[Rychiar]

is it a big deal when they add more crappy games? don't they do that regularly? I wish they'd scrap the whole thing and make a solid way to play real games

 

[amaze1499]

The rumour, I’m actually waiting for:

Apple Arcade adds Steam Games Catalog

 

[Havoc035]

The rumour, I’m actually waiting for:

Apple Arcade adds Steam Games Catalog

Or "Apple acquires Ubisoft and EA, adds catalogs to Apple Arcade" or "Apple announces own studio, helps port AAA games to iOS and macOS".

Really, two new + games aren't going to cut it. Apple either needs to kill this service off or significantly increase it's investments.

 

[pavelbure]

I know it’s two different platforms, Nintendo online costs a little over $4 a month to access some of the best Nintendo game titles ever made, then you have Apple Arcade for $7 a month to access……. Piano Tiles and Crazy Eights, yeah, this decision isn’t hard.

 

[CapitalIdea]

Or "Apple acquires Ubisoft and EA, adds catalogs to Apple Arcade" or "Apple announces own studio, helps port AAA games to iOS and macOS".

Really, two new + games aren't going to cut it. Apple either needs to kill this service off or significantly increase it's investments.

It's amazing how many people say, "Apple needs to invest far more" into things that end up being dead ends. Remember all the complaints about how they didn't throw billions into Siri, while Google and Amazon did and ended up with money-sucking boondoggle Alexa and the nearly collapsed Assistant? Remember all the people saying Apple should have thrown $100B into something like OpenAI, when Deepseek showed exactly what a short-sighted plan that would have been?

And seriously? Ubisoft, which is probably going to be dead within two years after a decade of progressively worse products? EA, the notoriously toxic developer? Why should Apple throw lifelines to those walking corpses when anything worth a damn will end up on GamePass anyway and every modern AAA project that doesn't hit turns into a $200M-300M loss?

 

[jjudson]

Or "Apple acquires Ubisoft and EA, adds catalogs to Apple Arcade" or "Apple announces own studio, helps port AAA games to iOS and macOS".

Really, two new + games aren't going to cut it. Apple either needs to kill this service off or significantly increase it's investments.

EA???

How screwed up do you want Apple Arcade to be...?

 

[iDento]

Or "Apple acquires Ubisoft and EA, adds catalogs to Apple Arcade" or "Apple announces own studio, helps port AAA games to iOS and macOS".

Really, two new + games aren't going to cut it. Apple either needs to kill this service off or significantly increase its investments.

Those crappy titles in Apple Arcade are still better than what EA is selling.

 

[fathergll]

This looks like some marquee for a childrens afternoon programming block. Steam gotta be shaking in their boots.

 

[thefrost]

Who will play these games?

 

[TracesOfArsenic]

womp womp (yet again)

 

[GermanSuplex]

With their resources, gaming really should be way further along at Apple than it is. Especially on mobile. Apple Arcade isn’t even close to approaching anything special, even when you don’t compare it to dedicated handheld devices and grade it on a curve. It’s a good idea, the games just aren’t there. Some are better than others and are worth playing, but the best I can say about gaming on iOS is that now they allow emulators.

 

[svish]

Good to know about the new games. Won't be downloading them. Arcade requires high quality games which is severely lacking. Hopefully it improves.

 

[Cunir]

Arcade should come with a little library of games, made by Apple, that are always available and exclusive to arcade.

Like a decent chess, backgammon, solitaire, soduku, crosswords, scrabble, yahtzee, mahjong, ludo, draughts… a library of classic games like that, that everybody knows

And being Apple-owned they could make sure they all work well across desktop, tablet, phone and TV and tie them into gamecenter, which a lot of the current arcade offerings don’t do

 

[Abazigal]

Maybe unpopular opinion on MR but Apple Arcade is so bad it's embarrassing...
Apple wants to grab those juicy "services" revenues while doing zero efforts to develop themselves games or incentive decently enough third party devs. It's a deserved L.

My interpretation of Apple Arcade is that it is meant to be a family friendly option (you have games that are curated for you, are child-safe, don’t have ads or IAPs). There’s something for the whole family.