Recess vs Pocket Arcade Retro Games

There is a better kind of break than endlessly swiping through photos and videos. Recess is a break-time puzzle app that redesigns classic logic puzzles for five-minute work breaks. Social media breaks are hard to end. Ads keep pulling your attention away. Suddenly, 30 minutes are gone. With Recess, you can take a guilt-free "game break." Its games and modes are designed to wrap up cleanly in short sessions, so your break can end feeling clear. A play timer shows how long you have been playing, so you can decide, "time to get back." ■ Three puzzles for everyday breaks. • Minesweeper: Quest Mode, plus luck-free Pure Logic Mode. Boards that can be solved by logic alone make it easy to settle into focused play. • Solitaire: The classic card game that is so easy to get absorbed in. Clear Path Mode removes the luck factor, so you can leave bad-deal frustration behind. • Block Escape Puzzle: From Easy to Ultimate, with a wide range of stages designed to help your break end cleanly. ■ One-time Premium. No subscription. Unlock every level and mode with a single purchase.

Pocket Arcade packs 26 original arcade games into one beautifully crafted app — for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. No ads, no nonsense: pick a game and play in seconds. From a neon maze chase and a brick-breaker to a pseudo-3D arcade racer, a tube shooter, a snake game, a physics pinball with four tables, falling-block, sliding-number and match-3 puzzles, an asteroids-style drifter, a boss-battling sky shooter, table tennis and more — every game is hand-built with its own controls, music, and high-score table. FEATURES • 26 original games across Arcade, Pinball, Shooters, Puzzle, Racing and Board • Big, clear on-screen touch controls tuned per game — plus Apple Watch Digital Crown support • Play with a game controller on iPhone and iPad — Xbox, PlayStation and MFi pads, 23 of the 26 games • Plays on iPhone, iPad AND Apple Watch — your high scores sync across all three over iCloud • Game Center leaderboards and achievements • Filter games by category and star your favorites • High scores, attract demos, and a clear how-to-play guide for every game • The maze chaser evolves as you climb — split mazes and rotating biomes over a deep-space sky • Original artwork and sound — no third-party trackers, fully playable offline FREE TO PLAY Four games are free forever — a maze chaser, tic-tac-toe, a brick-breaker, and a snake game. Unlock the full collection — every current and future game — with a single one-time purchase. No subscriptions, ever. THE GAMES Arcade — a neon maze chase, a road-and-river crossing dash, a snake, a flag-grabbing maze rally, table tennis, and a maze-bombing blast-'em-up. Pinball — a real-physics table with flippers, ramps and multiball across four distinct playfields. Shooters — defend against a swarm, dodge a diving fleet, drift-and-blast through a rock field, ride a geometric tube, loop a dream world blasting bosses, and storm an isometric gauntlet of floor mazes and six towering bosses. Puzzle — stack falling blocks, pop color-matched bubbles, break out a wall of bricks, chain match-3 gem cascades, catch and clear tumbling tiles, and merge tiles to 2048. Racing — race an endless circuit, choose your route to the coast, carve an endless downhill, and run a fugitive off the road in a siren-blaring pursuit. Board — tic-tac-toe, connect-four, and a full game of solitaire, vs the device or a friend. Designed for quick play on the go: grab your iPhone or iPad, or glance at your Apple Watch, and dive into a game in seconds.