Apple Arcade Gains Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop, Super Monsters Ate My Condo and More

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated its Apple Arcade gaming service to add a selection of new games to play. The main new addition is Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop, a game in Sega's popular Puyo Puyo series.

In Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop, players match up Puyos of the same color to clear the board and cause damage to opponents. As with Tetris, Puyo pieces fall from the top of the screen and can be rotated and moved to make matches.

The game has a storyline to uncover by progressing through the levels, and there are 24 playable characters to unlock, with many from prior Puyo Puyo games. Different rule sets can be used, including options from Puyo Puyo 2 and Puyo Puyo Fever, and there is also an endless mode.

There is a single player mode to play, but there are also multiplayer battles. Up to four players can join through Game Center.

Super Monsters Ate My Condo, also new today, is a classic iOS game that's making a reappearance on Apple Arcade. The idea is swipe to feed condos to monsters, while also making color matches for high scoring combos.

The third game available on Apple Arcade is Sago Mini Trips+, which is designed for children.

Later this month, Apple plans to release Crossy Road Castle and Solitaire Stories, games that will be available on the Vision Pro headset.

Apple Arcade is priced at $6.99 per month for up to six people, and it features more than 200 titles.

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[TechnoMonk]

Surprised Apple Arcade is still around. I was disappointed when I tried for 3 months on free trial.

 

[TheMountainLife]

My issue with Apple Arcade is that if I decide to purchase a game that I originally started under Apple Arcade, the save doesn't transfer to the full game. Definitely not interested in these new additions.

 

[Apple Mac Daz]

Not worth the monthly sub, only use it if free trial is available

 

[-DMN-]

And to think all my internet friends told me Apple Arcade is gonna fail! Ha!

 

[emulator]

Not worth the monthly sub, only use it if free trial is available

Right, that's what we do thanks to Target & BB codes, rotating between family members. Use it since launch and never paid a cent. BUT. I have more fingers than the games we played combined, family of 4.

 

[syklee26]

Apple Arcade is only around because of Apple One.

 

[TechnoMonk]

Right, that's what we do thanks to Target & BB codes, rotating between family members. Use it since launch and never paid a cent. BUT. I have more fingers than the games we played combined, family of 4.

It’s been a while since I tried, I don’t bother with trial codes any more. I may give it a go again, not sure if it changed much.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Super Monsters Ate My Condo needs a follow up..

“Private Equity Bought my Condo and jacked the rates: Living on the street in a tent simulator”

 

[Rychiar]

My issue with Apple Arcade is that if I decide to purchase a game that I originally started under Apple Arcade, the save doesn't transfer to the full game. Definitely not interested in these new additions.

You can purchase games that are in arcade ??

 

[sc00ba]

Why on earth would Apple, originally a computer company, open their own tv studio and not a gaming studio that could create games for their now third generational, custom Apple silicon? Oh I know, so Timmy boy can inject his company’s so called “altruistic” ideologies, into the content because it’s much easier to do that with a movie or tv show than a game where you have to have some sort of gameplay every now and then.

Not to mention they’re sooooo altruistic at Apple they keep pushing prices of their devices up and up, in these very VERY tough times at present, just like every other company

Yeesh🙄.

 

[O.N.Y.X]

For what Arcade is offering, Apple should actually have decreased its price. Those games are definitely not worth $6.99/month.

 

[O.N.Y.X]

You can purchase games that are in arcade ??

Yes, some developers go from Arcade to regular App store sale.

 

[Rychiar]

Yes, some developers go from Arcade to regular App store sale.

I just want synth riders

 

[opeter]

Super Monsters Ate My Condo

Did the forgot to include an "m" at the very end?

 

[svish]

Good to know about the new additions. But with the current catalogue of games don't think it is worth subscribing to Arcade. I think many will be having access to it through Apple One.

 

[Motawa]

Netflix has like 100% better games lol

 

[k1121j]

Apple Arcade is only around because of Apple One.

Yep got to justify that 40 bucks a month somehow.

 

[MacFarmer]

Super Monsters Ate My Condo is a nice game. Still have it on my old ipads and iphones.

 

[Spock]

Super Monsters Ate My Condo is a nice game. Still have it on my old ipads and iphones.

Unfortunately, this version is timed and not as fun as the original.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Not worth the monthly sub, only use it if free trial is available

Apple Arcade is only around because of Apple One.

It will stick around, it has found its niche. Apple has made the App Store such a cesspool that no parent would trust their children on it. At least with Apple Arcade there's a safe selection of games for kids. This is highly impractical with the wider app store now.

It's not what anyone, probably including Apple, expected but it's working to solve a problem they created.

Just hope those kids don't care about their game saves when they age out.

 

[zarmanto]

I suppose I'm probably showing my age, here... but from the screenshots, I'd say that Puyo Puyo looks an awful lot like Dr Mario to me.

 

[Skimac]

The Apple Arcade store is horrible you better off just downloading the 1000s of games that’s free on the AppStore instead of paying for a subscription with mediocre games

 

[Havoc035]

For what Arcade is offering, Apple should actually have decreased its price. Those games are definitely not worth $6.99/month.

True, $6.99/month brings it way too close to Game pass pricing territory. Actual value of Apple Arcade may be $2.99/month or so.

 

[com.B]

I suppose I'm probably showing my age, here... but from the screenshots, I'd say that Puyo Puyo looks an awful lot like Dr Mario to me.

Both series debuted on the Nintendo Family Computer. I like both games but Puyo Puyo is deeper.