This science-fiction text adventure plays out as a series of messages on your device. This is the first game from Team 17 USA, an offshoot of the independent British developer/publisher that formed when it acquired indie mobile game publisher The Label last year. Take over an inherited but abandoned family farm and enjoy “fun, farming, rich customizations, and a deep quest system,” according to the press release. This looks to be a fairly straightforward farming sim with all the features you’d expect. It got reasonably good reviews back then, and racing on water is always fun, in theory. The developers at Vector Unit clearly asked themselves what would happen if they combined Wave Race with Wipeout, plus some edgelord stuff about being an outlaw on the run in “a futuristic world of illicit hydro jet racing.” This is a new Apple Arcade version of a 2016 game for mobile, consoles, and PC, itself a lawbreaking sequel to the more straight-laced Riptide GP series. 10 - Riptide GP: Renegade+ Image: Vector Unit/Apple But mostly it’s medieval buildings falling over. There’s some kingdom-conquering going on, and “unique biomes” apparently. This one’s all in the title: a physics puzzler in which you must make castles crumble by hitting them with cannonballs, explosives, magic spells and more. 3 - Castle Crumble Image: Orbital Knight/Apple There are also substantial content updates for Cut the Rope Remastered and more.

There’s more classic mobile gaming fodder this month, in the form of a physics puzzler and a farming sim, plus an arcade racing game and a potentially intriguing sci-fi text adventure. As usual, Apple Arcade subscribers get new releases every Friday, plus a bunch of content updates in February 2023 - and after an excellent January, with the releases of Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! and a new update for the superb Grindstone, it’s looking like a quieter month on Apple’s gaming subscription service.

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