

are really neat, but I’d like to see them in a more compelling package. As you complete levels, you’re also treated to mini-cutscenes that tell a small story about the people that inhabit these spaces. A picture might be hanging in midair, for example, and you need to slide your camera perspective so that it fills an empty space on the gallery wall of the bedroom. is a game about rotating dioramas around to solve perspective-shifting puzzles. This is part 6 of our Apple Arcade rankings. With the most recent update bringing older established titles to the service, Arcade is certainly the strongest it has ever been, but additional shakeups like this will need to keep happening to finally sell me on the service. Unless something drastic changes with the service, my opinion on it probably won’t change much.

In the time that one release comes to the service, multiple high quality games hit the App Store that you don’t have to pay monthly upkeep for. This has less to do with the pace of Apple Arcade releases and more to do with the fact that the general quality of games on the service simply isn’t what it should be.

For the most part, this means the number of updates on previously released games will decrease, and the text below each entry will be kept to a brief-yet-accurate justification for its positioning. Over a year into the Apple Arcade experiment, I’m adjusting my approach to these rankings to make it a bit less cumbersome to update and read. In case you missed it, I am on a quest to rank every Apple Arcade game there is.
