Apple Arcade boasts many exciting and intriguing games with a variety of gameplay. While some are designed primarily for touchscreen iOS devices, some work better with a supported controller. And since not all games on this platform are compatible with controllers, things can get confusing. To help you, we’ve compiled a list of all Apple Arcade games that support controllers.
For optimal convenience, we have divided the games into categories. So, jump into your favorite genre and see which Apple Arcade games you can easily play with your controller.
- Race
- Action games
- Adventure games
- Strategy games
- Puzzle
- Sports games
- Role-playing games
- Casual and family games
Race
- Distorted kart racers
- Gear Club Stradale
- Agent Interception
- Asphalt 8: Airborne+
- detonation racing
- Marble it up: Mayhem!
- Sonic Racing
- speed demons
- super impossible road
- Drive Deformation
Action games
- HEROIC
- Subway Surfers Tag
- Air Twister
- Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City
- Angry Birds Reloaded
- Butter Royale
- Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls
- Crossey Road Castle
- Exit Gungeon
- fallen knight
- Frog in a toy town
- bullshit
- hot lava
- LEGO® Brawls
- monomali
- Nightmare Farm
- No way home
- Populus Run
- Punch Planet
- Rayman Mini
- Reaut: Space Assault
- Samurai Jack
- Sayonara Wild Hearts
- Scrappers
- Shinsekai in the depths
- Shooting – ShockRods
- Skate City
- spiderosaurs
- super leap day
- Super Mega Mini Party
- Survival Z
- Things that go bump
- Towaga: Among the Shadows
- UFO on film: first contact
- Demon World™
- Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes
Adventure games
- fruitless party
- Alba: adventure in the wild
- Baldo
- beyond the blue
- Bradwell conspiracy
- Grim Sword
- Atlas of collages
- creaks
- Bleached
- doomsday vault
- Down in Bermuda
- Game of Thrones: Tale of the Crows
- Guilds
- Hitchhiker – Mystery Game
- Jenny LeClue – To the Detective
- Jumper John
- Last bonfire
- The LEGO® Builder Journey
- Realistic: Chapter One
- life slide
- marble knights
- Lullaby of life
- Mosaic
- Oregon trail
- The Pathless – Mythic Adventure
- Mysterious killing machine
- Mutation
- Necrobarista
- Neo Cabin
- wrong song
- Next stop is nowhere
- Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon
- Oceanhorn 2
- Operator 41
- Over the Alps
- Pilgrims
- Shantae and the seven sirens
- Slash Quest!
- Sneaky Bigfoot
- SpongeBob: Chasing Patty
- Spider
- Star retrieved
- Stele
- Sails aground
- Survivors
- Tangle Tower
- The path of the turtle
- south of the circle
- Wonderbox: Adventure Creator
Strategy games
- decoherence
- Royal League II
- Legends of the Kingdom of Rush – RPG
- LEGO® Star Wars™ battles
- Land
- Red Kingdom
- spaceland
- Star Commanders
Puzzle
- Frogger and the Rumbling Ruins
- Moonshot – Journey Home
- Stack apart
- monster expedition
- All of you
- God Doodle Universe
- Mad: Overtime
- Grindstone
- IN THE MOST
- clearance
- Collective garden
- NUTS Surveillance Mystery
- Simon’s Cat story time
- Spire explosion
- bit tetris
- Lace with words
Sports games
- NBA 2K22 Arcade Edition
- ballistic baseball
- Big sport
- CHARRUA FOOTBALL
- Cricket Through the Ages
- Klap Hanz Golf
- NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition
Role-playing games
- dreamer
- Star Trek: Legends
- Terrible Marine
- round guard
- Towers of Everland
- Unleash the light
- DIFFERENT DAY LIFE
- Yaga: Role-playing tale
Casual and family games
- Cooking Mama: Kitchen!
- My bowling 3D+
- ChuChu Rocket! Universe
- cozy grove
- Dodo Peak
- Farm it!
- Young heroes
- Hexaflip: action puzzle game
- castle kings
- The Loud House: Out of Control
- MasterChef: Let’s cook!
- Symphony of the Mind
- PAC-MAN Royal Party
- Painty Mob
- Reigns: Next
- Secret
- Solitaire
- SP!NG
- Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat
- pinball master
- What is golf?
- wordweb
- Zen Pinball Party
How do I know if an Apple Arcade game supports a controller?
Apple clearly states controller support information for most games on its landing page. Open the game page in the App Store on iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple TV and look for the controller icon on the banner just below the game icon.
Another way is to scroll down to the Support section and check for game controller support. Although during our testing, we also noted that some games not listed also offer controller support.
So it all comes down to connecting your controller and testing. Well, not really, because we’ve done the groundwork on your behalf.
Stay tuned!
Apple launches new games on Apple Arcade every month. Naturally, this list will be updated regularly to add new games with controller support. So, bookmark this and come back every month to check out these newly added games.