Best Apple Watch Games in 2022

Best Apple Watch Games in 2022.

In 2022, it’s hard to believe that the first Apple Watch was released over five years ago, but the Apple Watch series is already well established and is undeniably one of the best smartwatches you can buy today.

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The Apple Watch has also been around long enough to have a surprising amount of good video games available for it. In this article, we have listed some of the best Apple Watch games you can play. These games don’t have the most advanced graphics or controls, but hey, it’s better than just looking at the clock face!

How to Get Games on Your Apple Watch

If you’re new to installing apps on your Apple Watch, let’s take a look at how to download a game from the App Store on your Apple Watch.

The first step is to visit the App Store on your iPhone and find your game among other Apple Watch apps. Buy or download the appropriate app, and then wait for it to complete installation. Many Apple Watch games are also regular iOS games. So you can also play them on your iPhone or iPad. You can only play certain games on Apple Watch. If you’re not sure, check the app’s description.

Once you’ve purchased or claimed the app, open the Watch app on your iPhone. Then scroll down to the “Available Apps” section in the “My Watch” tab. Your app purchases should be listed there. Select the “Install” option for each app to install them on your watch.

If you want to install apps automatically, select the App Store in the Watch app and turn on automatic downloads.

Now let’s play the best games for Apple Watch!

1. Lifeline ($1.99)

Lifeline is innovative interactive storytelling that doesn’t qualify it as a game, perhaps. However, it is one of the most popular apps of its kind and is especially suited to the small Apple Watch screen.

The premise of Lifeline is that an astronaut named Taylor has crash-landed on an alien planet. Unfortunately, he is the only surviving member of the crew, and his communicator can only reach you.

You will receive messages and notifications from Taylor in real-time, and with your help and advice, he may be able to handle it. The story has multiple paths and you can go back and make different choices to see how things would have turned out.

While Lifeline has been around for a few years now is a good time to give Lifeline a try as it has received more story content including a bonus epilogue. It’s also a great place to start, as there are now eight more games in the Lifeline series, including Lifeline 2 and the acclaimed Lifeline: Whiteout.

2. Trivia Crack and Trivia Crack (No Ads for $1.99)

If you like games like Trivial Pursuit, you will love Trivia Crack. We don’t know if the name of the quiz game is due to its addictive nature, but it’s all too easy to get carried away with the endless list of quiz questions available right on your wrist.

The game goes a little deeper than just challenging yourself with trivia. You can play with other people and even chat with your opponents. The first person to collect six crowns wins. You can also create your own quizzes, but there are hundreds of thousands of them and we don’t understand why you need them!

3. Tiny Armies ($0.99)

Tiny Armies is a strategy and conquest game. It uses simple yet attractive graphics to represent terrain, forces and enemies. It’s almost like a throwback to the early days of Atari gaming, when you had to use your imagination to breathe life into the world and combat. In addition to the main playing field, there are also various mini-games to perform actions on the battlefield, so the gameplay is also varied. Also, you can play a multiplayer game against other users via iMessage to challenge yourself.

Despite the visual simplification, there is a fair amount of depth to the game itself. Tiny Armies is a great choice if you like strategy games that require you to think a few steps ahead.

4. Pocket Bandit ($0.99)

Some of the best Apple Watch games don’t use the tiny touchscreen. Instead, they take full advantage of the high-quality digital crown that Apple Watch is known for.

Pocket Bandit combines the digital crown and the tactile feel of the Apple Watch to create a safe-cracking game like no other. You’ll need focus and a steady hand to successfully pull off safe-cracking heists to get to the goodies inside. This is an Apple Watch game demo and should be on every wearable device.

5. Arcadia Arcade Watch Games ($1.99)

Remember those pirated NES 100-in-1 cartridges? Or those cheap nameless portable consoles loaded with hundreds of simple games? Arcadia is a bit of a reminder of this, with a collection of retro 8-bit arcade games that don’t bear the names or tile licenses that inspired them. However, among the games offered here, it is easy to find Outrun or Space Invaders.

The graphics have a retro feel, but better than the 8-bit games they are meant to evoke. The gameplay is also simple enough to work well on the Apple Watch screen. So if you have a few minutes to kill and can’t (or don’t want to) get your iPhone out, this might be the only collection of Apple Watch games you need to buy.

6. Cosmos Rings ($9.99)

While most Apple Watch games also include the regular iOS version in the price, Cosmos Rings is one of the few games that requires an Apple Watch. Created by JRPG mega-publisher Square Enix, this game features a unique presentation that includes your phone and watches. If you launch the app on your watch first, it will ask you to launch the app on your iPhone first to see the story intro and grant the necessary permissions for the game to work.

The Goddess of Time is in big trouble and you must save her. After you complete the initial setup on your phone, you can download the Watch app and start fighting your enemies. Cosmos Rings bring classic combat mechanics from JRPGs to your wearable device, but you can open the phone app at any time to view the story (also presented on the watch) or view the skills you’ve unlocked.

It’s not as good as playing the latest full Final Fantasy. However, it’s still a fun and unique experience that Apple Watch owners who love role-playing games should try. It might be more expensive than the other apps on this list, but it’s also a lot more meaningful when it comes to content.

7.Â KOMRADÂ ($0.99)

Like Lifeline, KOMRAD is less of a game and more of an interactive storytelling experience, but that doesn’t make it any less cool. It has a fantastic premise, reminiscent of the War Games movie.

You are talking to a Soviet AI that has been training for 30 years without anyone knowing. What he doesn’t know is that the Cold War is over and may still be linked to a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons. I hope you can convince him not to use them!

KOMRAD is more than just a branching narrative; The creator of this name is the former chief designer of IBM Watson AI. So be prepared for it to get too real from time to time. Aside from the cool premise, we also really like the 80s CRT aesthetic that KOMRAD has. For only a dollar, you must have this title.

8.Â ElevateÂ (Free With In-App Purchases)

Since the days of Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training on Nintendo consoles, the brain training game genre has remained quite popular. The idea is to stimulate your gray matter with mini-games that test memory, reading comprehension, problem-solving, and a bit of math to boot.

No one can decide whether brain training games make you smarter or not, but there is no doubt that they can be a lot of fun, and no one can accuse you of playing a “mindless” video game to pass time.

9. Ping Pong for Apple Watch (Free With In-App Purchases)

Early table tennis (or “ping pong”) video games used a spinning wheel racquet. It is therefore surprising that there are no more Apple Watch games associated with this classic control scheme and the digital crown on the watch.

Ping Pong for Apple Watch is a free game that offers you a pong-like experience and a few variations on the theme, such as an exit mode. While the app is free to try, it’s essentially a demo and you’ll have to pay a modest $1.99 fee to unlock the good stuff. Given that this is probably the best action game on the Apple Watch, we think it’s worth it.

10. Snappy Word (Free With In-App Purchases)

The world is going crazy for Wordle right now, but the Apple Watch has its own fantastic puzzle game. Best of all, you don’t have to wait all day for a new word!

Snappy Word takes inspiration from Scrabble and invites you to write words with a set of letters. Just swipe through the letters to write the words. Once you find all the possible words in the mishmash, you will move on to the next level.

In total, the game has 400 levels, the difficulty of which increases as you progress. To make it even more exciting, you have a time limit to find them all.

You can also view the daily leaderboard for those who like to compete to see where you rank against other players.

11. Retro Twist ($0.99)

Retro Twist is another gaming compiler app in the same vein as Arcadia. However, instead of trying to mimic the gameplay of classic arcade games, they are trying to remix these games to keep them fresh and, most importantly, capitalize on the unique nature of playing on smartwatches.

For example, Circle Invaders are space invaders, but with a twist that reimagines the game with a round design. Contra Pang combines the hardcore shooter game Contra with the bubble popping game Pang. Circle Break mixes Pong, Breakout, and circle design. You get the idea!

One of the standout features of Retro Twist is the good graphics. This is the most beautiful retro Apple Watch game we’ve ever seen.

The Apple Watch Games We Lost

If you’re reading other lists of the best Apple Watch games, you may come across a few games that you just can’t find. As is the case with many mobile apps, there is no guarantee that developers will continually update and support them. If no one else is spending money on the game, there’s not much point in updating an Apple Watch game to run the latest version of WatchOS.

In our research for this article, we found a few games that are often recommended but no longer available:

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If you have bought these games in the past, you should still have them on your watch, but once they become incompatible with the latest version of WatchOS, you will no longer be able to play them. This can happen with any game on mobile, so be sure to enjoy them while you can!