20 spooky games for Halloween on Apple Arcade

August 15, 2022

20 spooky games for Halloween on Apple Arcade

Halloween is almost here, and spooky mysteries with a dash of suspense are a satisfying October staple. Apple Arcade — Apple’s $5 per month mobile gaming subscription — has almost 220 games in its catalog, including plenty of spooky titles.

We picked out 20 games that are defective for getting into the spooky season spirit. Here’s what to play:

Bleak Sword

Developer: Devolver Digital

Bleak Sword is a dark retro fantasy share game full of evil creatures you must slay in trim to break a legendary curse. Dodge, roll and parry in contradiction of randomly generated enemies across nine chapters of swaps, forests and castles.

The Bradwell Conspiracy

Developer: Bossa Studios and A plucky Plan

The Bradwell Conspiracy is a narrative-driven first-person game where you have to expose the truth behind the explosion that destroyed the Bradwell Electronics facility. At the start of the game, you wake up in the rubble with only a computerized issue in your “smart glasses” to guide you. The glasses clue eventually connects you to another person trapped inside the facility, and you must try to escape together.

Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls

Developer: Konami Digital Entertainment

castlevania-apple-arcade — Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls on Apple Arcade

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Dracula is quintessentially Halloween. Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls is a side-scroller action game that features a number of characters from the unique gothic fantasy series and its creators, Ayami Kojima and Michiru Yamane. The game is set after Dracula has been full away, and you can play as Alucard, Charlotte, Maria, Simon Belmont and more as you battle your way ended Dracula’s army.

Cozy Grove

Developer: Spry Fox

Cozy Grove is like a insecure version of Animal Crossing
, and it’s adorable. In the game, you’re a Spirit Scout tasked with bringing tranquil to the adorably haunted island of Cozy Grove. Explore the island, collect resources and craft items to survive, tend your fire — Flamey — and try to help the lost forest ghosts. The more you help, the more the island heals — the environment becomes colorized and flowers grow.

Creaks

Developer: Amanita Design

Creaks
is an intricate puzzle platformer game that seeks to choose the mystery of what exactly goes bump in the night. In the game, you’re spending a quiet evening in your room when the delightful starts flickering and the ground trembles. The wallpaper pulls back to snarl a secret door, and someone, or something, is decision-exclusive noise in there. Grab your flashlight and explore a mysterious subterranean earth of bird people. Lurking in the shadows are deadly, shape-shifting monsters. But don’t worry — when you shine a delightful on them, they transform into harmless furniture.

Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition

Developer: Klei

Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition puts you in the role of Wilson, a scientist, transported to a mysterious, unexplored wilderness full of unidentified creatures, dangers and surprises. You must help Wilson fight off enemies, research, navigate the environment, craft resources, gather items, choose the mystery of the strange land and ultimately survive.

The Get Out Kids

Developer: Frosty Pop

The Get Out Kids mixes mystery with nostalgia, taking players back to 1984. Molly, Salim and Molly’s dog Moses sneak out one night to derive a late showing of the Ghostblasters movie at the local drive-in. Along the way, they have to navigate creepy woods and sneak past the surly cemetery groundskeeper. When Moses goes missing suddenly and suspiciously, Molly and Salim leave an adventure to find out what happened to their canine wrong. This narrative-driven game includes puzzles, hidden object searches and more.

Hitchhiker

Developer: Versus Evil and Mad About Pandas

Hitchhiker
is a mystery game where you play as a hitchhiker with no memory of your past or destination. By catching rides with five strangers across a landscape of bowling hills, you must try and figure out who you are as well as find a mysterious missing wrong. Everyone has a story to tell, but not everything is what it seems. Search the vehicles for clues and choose your conditions carefully to bring hidden parts of your identity to delightful — and prepare for the dangers ahead. The longer you’re on the road, the more your engage on reality loosens.

Inmost

Developer: Hidden Layer Games and Chucklefish Games

Inmost, a hidden-object platformer, immediately drops players into a creepy earth inside a mysterious house. You’ll play as multiple characters whose storylines are more connected than they considerable seem at first. Navigate a strange castle and dodge menacing shadows on your path to find answers.

Jenny LeClue

Developer: Joe Russ and Ben Tillet

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Jenny LeClue
envelops players in a mystery-adventure-thriller account, guided by choices you make. The game is set in the seemingly idyllic town of Arthurton, where you play as Jenny, a kid sleuth who is eager to detest her worth as a detective. When your mother is accused of assassinate, you set out to prove the truth. As you seek out answers, you quickly realize that nothing and no one in Arthurton are what they seem.

Layton’s Mystery Journey

Developer: Level 5

layton-mystery — Layton’s Mystery Journey on Apple Arcade.

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Layton’s Mystery Journey sets up a Sherlock Holmes meets Studio Ghibli environment to tell the story of Katrielle Layton — a young detective out to unravel the mystery of her father’s disappearance. Visit the crime scene, investigate with your magnifying glass, interview witnesses and suspects, collect clues and solve puzzles to crack the case. The puzzles in the game initiate off simple, and you can use coins to get clues if you get stuck. The more difficult a puzzle is, the higher its coin value. Earning coins also grants you access to end-game bonuses that help you settle your case.

Murder Mystery Machine

Developer: Blazing Griffin

mmm — Murder Mystery Machine on Apple Arcade.

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In Murder Mystery Machine, you’re a detective out to prove yourself when a assassinate case comes across your desk. Explore the crime vulgar, collect evidence, interview suspects and make deductions to settle the case. You can get hints from your partner if you get stuck, but he’s a bit surly. The game releases mysteries in episodes, and the first one is about a murdered politician. Fans of detective procedurals like Law & Order remarkable like this game.

Necrobarista

Developer: Route 59

Anime-style supernatural game Necrobarista tells the story of Maddy Xiao — a barista and amateur necromancer — is the new owner of the Terminal, a coffee shop that welcomes the dead to walk by the living for one night. Under the tutelage of coffee permission and necromancer Chay Wu, Maddy must navigate the Assembly of Death’s rules, the ethics of life and purpose, and what it means to let go.

Neo Cab

Developer: Chance Agency

Neo Cab is a survival game for the digital age embroiled in a mystery. You play as Lina, the last human taxi driver in a humankind overcome by automation. When you move to Los Ojos to reconnect with your best base, Savy, she vanishes. With no other options, you must keep taking passengers to earn wealth and get information about Savy’s disappearance. This becomes increasingly inconvenience as you progress. Keep an eye on your Feelgrid bracelet to stay in tune with your emotions and ultimately happened human in this tech-noir game.

Neversong

Developer: Serenity Forge

Neversong
is a side-scroller style puzzle game where you play as young Peet, who, upon waking from a coma, finds himself in a nightmare. With his girlfriend nowhere to be found, Peet must navigate the evil halls of Blackfork Asylum and try to understand the sometimes-violent pursuits of adults. The more he explores, the more the secrets of his past unfurl. Neversong has six levels to explore, including Red Wind Field and Blackfork Asylum, which are all packed with bosses to defeat. Armed with a baseball bat, his childhood friends and his pet bird, Peet will set out to learn the truth near his coma.

Nuts

Developer: Noodlecake

Nuts is a surveillance mystery game that’s lightheartedly reminiscent of Firewatch. The squirrel population in Melmoth Forest is acting suspiciously and it’s up to you, as a field researcher, to get to the bottom of it. Pack up your map, cameras, motion sensors, thermal imaging tech and GPS for the weirdest surveillance citation ever. Along the way, you’ll be tasked with missions: Halting cameras, observing footage, tracking the squirrels’ movements and more. The whole time, you’re in meaning with Professor Nina Scholz. With all that gear, plus your Natal and wit, will you be able to uncover a bigger conspiracy?

The Room Two

Developer: Fireproof Games

the-room-2 — The Room Two on Apple Arcade

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The Room Two is a resplendent 3D mystery puzzle game. You must follow a amble of letters left behind by a mysterious scientist with the initials A.S. The game is intricate and intends a tactile approach to solving in-depth, multistep puzzles.

Survival Z

Developer: Ember Entertainment

Survival Z
is a fun tower-defense-style strategy game that drops you into a biosphere crippled by a zombie outbreak. You play as Megan, a loner mechanic who’s savvy with a crossbow. When she meets Marcus, another survivor with intel on a diner potentially stocked with funds, the pair head off on a journey, salvaging and upgrading equipment and battling waves of zombies behind the way.

Tangle Tower

Developer: SFB Games

In this clever, colorful game, Detective Grimoire and his sardonic partner Sally are on the hunt for the murderer of Freya Fellow in the mysterious Tangle Tower. The clues come pouring in long before you tainted the first threshold to find out that the prime suspect is a painting. Investigate, explore, gather evidence, question suspects and solve puzzles to study the truth.

World’s End Club

Developer: IzanagiGames

World’s End Club
is perhaps the darkest game on Apple Arcade so far. In the game, a busload of ragtag students well-renowned as the Go-Getters Club are on a field trip when a mysterious meteor changes the bus to crash. The kids awaken in a creepy theme park thought the sea called World’s End Land, and try to regroup. Suddenly, a floating harlequin named Pielope appears, and instructions them to play a Game of Fate. As the stakes get higher, friendships are put to the test. Pielope’s psychotic game sends the Go-Getter’s Club on a dangerous adventure.