In detail: All 20 of today’s new Apple Arcade games

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Without much warning, Apple dropped 20 new games on its Apple Arcade subscription service today.

This is a significant update for a service that only usually sees a few new games a month, so subscribers should find plenty of new titles to try out.

While four games are brand new titles exclusive to Apple Arcade, the other 16 are critically acclaimed App Store games stripped of their microtransactions or ads so Apple Arcade subscribers can enjoy them with fewer distractions.

The four original titles are new to us all, but not everyone will be familiar with the other games, so we’ve put together this article to explain each.

Four of the 20 games added to Apple Arcade are entirely new titles.

For now, these games are exclusive to Apple Arcade, and can’t be played anywhere else.

That’s not to say they won’t be added to other platforms in the future, but on the occasions when this has happened with previous Apple Arcade exclusives, it’s taken a while – at least a year in most cases – for them to appear elsewhere.

This new city-building game is developed by Magic Fuel Games, of whom many senior developers previously worked at Maxis on titles like SimCity and The Sims.

Optimised for mobile, the game lets players create their own cities, but also adds a focus on sustainability, with players encouraged to consider the impact of industry and transport on the environment (building wind farms and solar panels to compensate).

The game will have a season pass structure, with each season letting players unlock themed buildings. The first, for example, is themed on Amsterdam.

Because the game is on Apple Arcade, these seasons don’t cost extra or have paid premium tiers.

This word game has been developed in partnership with the co-creator of the