Comparison

Super Mean Monkeys vs ArcadeOS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Super Mean Monkeys

Engage in grid-based RPG combat against enemies on randomly generated paths. Solve puzzles and battle your way through this quest-driven adventure. Suitable for players aged 9 and up.

Highlights
  • Grid-based RPG combat
  • Randomly defined enemy paths
  • Puzzle solving
  • Quest-driven gameplay
  • Suitable for ages 9+
Features
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Super Mean Monkeys (TM) is a Grid-Based RPG where players battle their way through grids of enemies along randomly defined paths.

About

ArcadeOS

Experience a full arcade with 65 original retro-style games on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing to RPGs, all playable offline with instant resume and authentic chip audio. New games are added seasonally.

Highlights
  • 65 original retro-style games
  • Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Offline play with no internet required
  • Instant resume for all games
  • Authentic chip audio
  • New games added seasonally
  • No accounts, ads, or tracking
Features
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Welcome to ArcadeOS — a whole arcade in your pocket, and now on your wrist. 68 hand-picked original games, each one its own cartridge: full 3D open worlds, kart racers, ninja action, gothic pinball, paper-craft RPGs, sky shooters, momentum platformers, run-and-gun, belt brawlers, puzzle boxes and rhythm. Every game is an original creation in the spirit of the golden age of consoles — drawn in code, scored with real chip audio, and built to be picked up in seconds. HALLOW EDITION Worlds, not cartridges. LOOSE KEYS: HALLOW HOLLOW is a full 3D open city under an orange moon: take any car, hearse, helicopter, plane or boat, outrun a three-star heat system, fly a fast jet off a military airfield, land an airliner at the international airport, and work a phone full of jobs — in a city full of witches, skeletons, horsemen and the odd creature from an 1818 novel. At its heart is HOLLOWMERE, a haunted theme park with a graveyard coaster you can actually ride, a drop tower, and a lagoon parade with fireworks on the hour. MODS ship with it: god mode, every weapon, flight, moon gravity. IRONBARK is a heavyweight momentum platformer: an armored-bark brawler and a glider partner tag-teaming through an industrial jungle of barrel-cannon chains, mine-cart runs and hidden bonus rooms, drawn in fine-pixel art. GLIMMERGLASS KEEP rounds it out — a free-roam 3D collect-a-thon built over 25 nights of iteration. All three have original soundtracks synthesized live inside the app. CHERRY EDITION 23 games rated five stars by our testers before they shipped — look for the cherry on the cartridge. Highlights: Reefjack's lantern-tide run-and-gun, Thornhollow's gorge platforming, Quiet Falls' suburban-oddball RPG, Emberline's three-winter family saga, Cascabel's commedia brawler, Ironvane's vertical shooter, and Crestline GP's speedboat regatta. APPLE WATCH ArcadeOS ships with an Apple Watch app. Six games are built for the wrist and the Digital Crown: Redline Ridge (crown hops lanes, hold to burn), Sunstrip (crown steers, tap to shift), Ironvane (crown flies, hold to charge, tap to call your wingman), Truck Simulator (roll the crown and the truck drives itself — steer, hold to brake, deliver the cargo), Haywire (a horse loose in a farmyard full of physics: buck, jump, cause chaos) and Cairnglass (a crown-controlled falling-sigil puzzler). Runs on its own — no iPhone needed nearby. FEATURES 68 games — every one with its own hand-crafted cartridge art Home screen: your games as icons, with folders you make yourself Gold-star collection: beat a game, earn its golden seal. Collect them all Authentic chip sound in every game, and full synthesized soundtracks in the 3D worlds Instant resume — every game remembers exactly where you left off No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Just games New games ship in seasonal editions — Cherry, and now Hallow ArcadeOS games are living software: they grow new levels, mechanics, and polish over time. Your shelf gets better while you sleep. Powered by RetroApps.

Screenshots

Super Mean Monkeys4 screens
ArcadeOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Super Mean Monkeys at 4.0 against ArcadeOS's 3.0. Super Mean Monkeys also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.5). ArcadeOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 20 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Super Mean Monkeys sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ArcadeOS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Super Mean Monkeys holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Super Mean Monkeys ships an update every 20 months, ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Super Mean Monkeys versus ArcadeOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuper Mean MonkeysArcadeOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 20 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size386 MB24 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMinute Games LLCRetroApps LLC

Customer experience

Super Mean Monkeys

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ArcadeOS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Super Mean Monkeys

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
None

ArcadeOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Super Mean Monkeys free?
Super Mean Monkeys is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ArcadeOS free?
ArcadeOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Super Mean Monkeys or ArcadeOS?
Super Mean Monkeys is rated higher. Super Mean Monkeys averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while ArcadeOS averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Super Mean Monkeys or ArcadeOS have ads?
Neither Super Mean Monkeys nor ArcadeOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Super Mean Monkeys or ArcadeOS?
Super Mean Monkeys ships an update every 20 months, and ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. Most recently, Super Mean Monkeys was updated on October 18, 2026 and ArcadeOS on October 19, 2026.

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