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Apple has announced the mobile titles coming to its Arcade subscription service in February. The upcoming games on the slate include the fantasy physics puzzle game Castle Crumble and the farming sim Farmside. The first is the first title, launching on February 3, while the remainder of the month is spread out on Friday.
Castle Crumble is developed by Orbital Knight, the developer behind other mobile titles Spire Blast and Star Horizon. It will be followed next week by Riptide GP: Renegade+, a hydrojet racing game featuring both single-player career and 8-player online matches. This isn’t developer Vector Unit’s first dabbling in hydrojet games, as the first game was the Xbox Live Arcade title Hydro Thunder Hurricane. It also released the Beach Buggy Racing titles.
The next game is Farmside, Apple Arcade’s answer to the many Farmville offshoots that have proliferated in mobile gaming for almost as long as it’s been around. It is the first game developed by Team17 USA since it acquired indie publisher The Label in 2022, which it did expressly to boost its mobile gaming profile. Farmside launches on Arcade on February 17th.
The final game, launching on February 24, is Lifeline+. This is the first game in developer 3 Minute Games’ text-based adventure series, which follows protagonist Taylor as they try to survive a landing on a remote moon. While none of this month’s games have the pedigree of January’s Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On, they showcase a wide variety of genres and developers.
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