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'NUTS' and 'Spire Blast' Arrive on Apple Arcade

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'NUTS' and 'Spire Blast' Arrive on Apple Arcade

Friday January 22, 2021 8:37 am PST by Hartley Charlton

"NUTS - A Surveillance Mystery" and "Spire Blast" are the latest games to join Apple Arcade's expanding library.

NUTS is a single-player surveillance mystery game set in a remote forest, where players are tasked with discovering what a group of squirrels are hiding. Through carefully laying out equipment, recording the squirrels' movements, analyzing their behavior, and reporting findings, players can uncover their hidden secrets.

With a bold visual style, full voice acting, careful pacing, and unusual gameplay mechanics, NUTS aims to offer something different.

Spire Blast is a colorful, family-friendly puzzle game that challenges players to topple towers using a system of matching and powerups.

Take a step into the colorful world of Spire Blast. With your ever hungry dragon companion collapse numerous mysterious towers of all shapes and sizes that have risen all over the kingdom.

Test your wits and skills, use all the tools at your disposal and you will emerge victorious!

NUTS - A Surveillance Mystery and Spire Blast are available now on ‌Apple Arcade‌, for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.

Top Rated Comments

10 hours ago at 09:02 am
Apple Arcade's dedication to mind-numbing mediocrity is admirable.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 hours ago at 09:57 am
So many Apple Arcade games (like NUTS) look like they were made to please the game developers, not a big audience. They have an "indie", offbeat vibe to them, and let the game developers be "creative" but the games don't seem to appeal to the mass market.

Has Apple had a single hit game that drives people to the Arcade platform? I can't think of one. Maybe management should focus on that for a while...

Apple TV feels similar, btw....
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
10 hours ago at 09:15 am
They both require macOS 11. Interesting that that has become a requirement so quickly.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
10 hours ago at 09:07 am
Played Nuts for an hour or so. Very frustrating experience on a small phone. Text impossible to read in places.

Also I'm flummoxed by the task to take a photo of the trailer. Will try again on an iPad. Cool vibe to it though.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 hours ago at 10:13 am
Is it me or do many of the Apple Arcade games tend to have poor reviews? Most I come across seem to be in the 3s.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
6 hours ago at 12:21 pm
Apple needs to buy Nintendo, activated my 3 month free Apple Arcade subscription recently, cancelled it 5 minutes later. ?‍♂️
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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