ArcadeOS
Games
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New in 2.2: Gold Hour, an original open desert-lake city you can ride, drive and explore. Early access. Find Ascii-Pascii, talk to the locals, take a job
Welcome to ArcadeOS — a whole arcade in your pocket, and now on your wrist.
68 hand-picked original games, each one its own cartridge: full 3D open worlds, kart racers, ninja action, gothic pinball, paper-craft RPGs, sky shooters, momentum platformers, run-and-gun, belt brawlers, puzzle boxes and rhythm. Every game is an original creation in the spirit of the golden age of consoles — drawn in code, scored with real chip audio, and built to be picked up in seconds.
HALLOW EDITION
Worlds, not cartridges. LOOSE KEYS: HALLOW HOLLOW is a full 3D open city under an orange moon: take any car, hearse, helicopter, plane or boat, outrun a three-star heat system, fly a fast jet off a military airfield, land an airliner at the international airport, and work a phone full of jobs — in a city full of witches, skeletons, horsemen and the odd creature from an 1818 novel. At its heart is HOLLOWMERE, a haunted theme park with a graveyard coaster you can actually ride, a drop tower, and a lagoon parade with fireworks on the hour. MODS ship with it: god mode, every weapon, flight, moon gravity. IRONBARK is a heavyweight momentum platformer: an armored-bark brawler and a glider partner tag-teaming through an industrial jungle of barrel-cannon chains, mine-cart runs and hidden bonus rooms, drawn in fine-pixel art. GLIMMERGLASS KEEP rounds it out — a free-roam 3D collect-a-thon built over 25 nights of iteration. All three have original soundtracks synthesized live inside the app.
CHERRY EDITION
23 games rated five stars by our testers before they shipped — look for the cherry on the cartridge. Highlights: Reefjack's lantern-tide run-and-gun, Thornhollow's gorge platforming, Quiet Falls' suburban-oddball RPG, Emberline's three-winter family saga, Cascabel's commedia brawler, Ironvane's vertical shooter, and Crestline GP's speedboat regatta.
APPLE WATCH
ArcadeOS ships with an Apple Watch app. Six games are built for the wrist and the Digital Crown: Redline Ridge (crown hops lanes, hold to burn), Sunstrip (crown steers, tap to shift), Ironvane (crown flies, hold to charge, tap to call your wingman), Truck Simulator (roll the crown and the truck drives itself — steer, hold to brake, deliver the cargo), Haywire (a horse loose in a farmyard full of physics: buck, jump, cause chaos) and Cairnglass (a crown-controlled falling-sigil puzzler). Runs on its own — no iPhone needed nearby.
FEATURES
68 games — every one with its own hand-crafted cartridge art
Home screen: your games as icons, with folders you make yourself
Gold-star collection: beat a game, earn its golden seal. Collect them all
Authentic chip sound in every game, and full synthesized soundtracks in the 3D worlds
Instant resume — every game remembers exactly where you left off
No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Just games
New games ship in seasonal editions — Cherry, and now Hallow
ArcadeOS games are living software: they grow new levels, mechanics, and polish over time. Your shelf gets better while you sleep.
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Gold Hour (early access)
A whole original city, open from the first minute. Verdeloma is a desert-lake town built street by street from our own footage: the arch bridges, the butte, the lake path, the mill row, the washes at the edge of town. Ride a bike, drive, or walk. The whole world is free and nothing is locked.
Find Ascii-Pascii
He is somewhere in the city, and he drops things. Residents give clues if you stop and talk. Every find goes on your found page and stays yours.
A city that lives
The day runs on a loop: joggers at sunrise, a crane crew at the glass shore, a chase through the old quarter, the rail bell across the water, the kitchen filling up at dinner. Walk into Brickline Kitchen and watch it work.
Your first job
Chapter one is free. Take a job from a local, finish it, and keep the reward in your Parts Patio. Three missions a week for everyone; more chapters are coming.
Made for a phone
A five-minute start that teaches by doing, a loading screen that shows real progress, and a quality governor that keeps the city smooth on older phones. The title card shows you what it is doing.
Early access means we are listening
Gold Hour is finished enough to play and not finished. After a session the game will ask how it went; your answer goes straight to the people building it, and the next update comes from those answers.
Also in 2.2
Stability and performance improvements across the shelf.
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Information
- Provider
- RetroApps LLC
- Size
- 35.1 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.5 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 RetroApps LLC
