Comparison

Virtual Treasure Hunt vs ArcadeOS

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

Head to head
About

Virtual Treasure Hunt

Explore your surroundings and discover hidden treasures in the real world. Dig them up for rewards, build your collection, and track your progress. It's an adventure waiting to be found wherever you go.

Highlights
  • Explore real-world locations
  • Discover and dig hidden treasures
  • Build and manage treasure collections
  • Track progress and earn achievements
  • Buy maps to reveal treasure locations
  • Play anywhere
Features
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Virtual Treasure Hunt Turn the world around you into an adventure. Explore your surroundings, discover hidden treasures, and dig them up for rewards. Whether you're walking through your neighborhood or traveling somewhere new, there’s always something waiting to be found. Explore & Discover Treasures spawn near your real-world location Walk around to reveal hidden finds Use your map to track down nearby treasures Dig & Collect Get close to a treasure and dig it up Earn points based on how close you are Build your collection and track your progress Choose Your Strategy Buy maps to reveal hidden treasure locations Decide when to dig for maximum rewards Manage your collection and sell treasures wisely Track Your Progress View stats like total points, treasures collected, and more Complete treasure sets and earn bonuses Unlock achievements as you play Play Anywhere Designed for real-world exploration Works wherever you are—your next treasure is nearby Step outside. Start exploring. Your next treasure is waiting.

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

Virtual Treasure Hunt4 screens
ArcadeOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Virtual Treasure Hunt at 5.0 against ArcadeOS's 3.0. Virtual Treasure Hunt also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.5). ArcadeOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). 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. Virtual Treasure Hunt sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. ArcadeOS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Virtual Treasure Hunt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Virtual Treasure Hunt ships an update every 4 days, ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Virtual Treasure Hunt versus ArcadeOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVirtual Treasure HuntArcadeOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDonald LairdRetroApps LLC

Customer experience

Virtual Treasure Hunt

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ArcadeOS

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

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Virtual Treasure Hunt

One-time10
  • 1000 Point Pack$0.99
  • Speed Digging$0.99
  • 30 Minute Detect Boost$0.99
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  • 30 Minute Double Bonus Boost$0.99
  • Streak Saver$0.99
  • Seeing Eye: Reveal Hidden Treasure$0.99
  • Cartographer’s Discount$2.99
  • Movement Mode$2.99
  • 5000 Point Pack$3.99
  • 10000 Point Pack$7.99
None

ArcadeOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Virtual Treasure Hunt free?
Virtual Treasure Hunt 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, Virtual Treasure Hunt or ArcadeOS?
Virtual Treasure Hunt is rated higher. Virtual Treasure Hunt averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while ArcadeOS averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Virtual Treasure Hunt or ArcadeOS have ads?
Neither Virtual Treasure Hunt nor ArcadeOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Virtual Treasure Hunt or ArcadeOS?
Virtual Treasure Hunt ships an update every 4 days, and ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. Most recently, Virtual Treasure Hunt was updated on October 28, 2026 and ArcadeOS on October 19, 2026.

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