Comparison

Crown Heist vs Pocket Arcade Retro Games

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

Head to head
About

Crown Heist

Features
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Crown Heist is a precision safe-cracking game built exclusively for Apple Watch. Rotate the Digital Crown to crack combination locks and feel every pin click into place through real haptic feedback. HOW TO PLAY Turn the crown slowly to find each pin, then reverse direction, just like a real combination lock. Turn too far past a pin and you lose a life. Lock in every pin before your lives run out, grab the loot and slip away before the cops close in. โ€ข CRACK THE SAFE: locks from simple 2-pin dials to punishing 6-pin vaults with 100 positions โ€ข HEAR IT AND FEEL IT: fine-tuned, satisfying sound effects with audio on, and deeper, richer haptics that take over in silent mode โ€ข HEIST 10 AREAS: 250 handcrafted safes guarded by 10 notorious villains, from Barnaby to Regalia โ€ข DODGE 8 DEVIOUS TRAPS: lasers, blackouts, slime, scrambled dials and more โ€ข STEAL 168 LOOT ITEMS: from Broken Sunglasses to $250,000 Blackmail Storage, across 6 rarity tiers โ€ข AN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: 11 tracks, with custom music composed for every adventure area โ€ข DECK OUT YOUR WATCH: custom artwork complications put Crown Heist right on your watch face โ€ข 3 GAME MODES: Adventure, Endless and two Time Trial variants. Fully playable offline โ€ข MAKE IT YOURS: 99+ safe skins and unlockable themes Strap in, crack the code and escape with the loot. The perfect heist fits on your wrist. Terms of Use (EULA): https://playcrowngames.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://playcrowngames.com/privacy/

About

Pocket Arcade Retro Games

Experience a collection of 26 original retro arcade games on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing and shooters to puzzles and pinball, with intuitive controls and offline play. Unlock all games with a single purchase.

Highlights
  • 26 original arcade games
  • Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Controller support for iPhone/iPad
  • Offline play
  • Game Center leaderboards and achievements
  • Single purchase to unlock all games
Features
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Pocket Arcade packs 26 original arcade games into one beautifully crafted app โ€” 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 โ€” every game is hand-built with its own controls, music, and high-score table. FEATURES โ€ข 26 original games across Arcade, Pinball, Shooters, Puzzle, Racing and Board โ€ข Big, clear on-screen touch controls tuned per game โ€” plus Apple Watch Digital Crown support โ€ข Play with a game controller on iPhone and iPad โ€” Xbox, PlayStation and MFi pads, 23 of the 26 games โ€ข Plays on iPhone, iPad AND Apple Watch โ€” your high scores sync across all three over iCloud โ€ข Game Center leaderboards and achievements โ€ข Filter games by category and star your favorites โ€ข High scores, attract demos, and a clear how-to-play guide for every game โ€ข The maze chaser evolves as you climb โ€” split mazes and rotating biomes over a deep-space sky โ€ข Original artwork and sound โ€” no third-party trackers, fully playable offline FREE TO PLAY Four games are free forever โ€” a maze chaser, tic-tac-toe, a brick-breaker, and a snake game. Unlock the full collection โ€” every current and future game โ€” with a single one-time purchase. No subscriptions, ever. THE GAMES Arcade โ€” 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 โ€” a real-physics table with flippers, ramps and multiball across four distinct playfields. Shooters โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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.

Screenshots

Crown Heist4 screens
Pocket Arcade Retro Games4 screens

Verdict

The call

Crown Heist and Pocket Arcade Retro Games are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Crown Heist sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Pocket Arcade Retro Games sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crown Heist ships an update weekly, Pocket Arcade Retro Games every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Crown Heist versus Pocket Arcade Retro Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrown HeistPocket Arcade Retro Games
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetizationโ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size106 MB188 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRob VeenPascal Peltriaux

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Crown Heist

Subscriptions2
  • CrownGames Royal Pass Weekly$2.997 Days
  • CrownGames Royal Pass Annual$24.991 Year
1 purchases

Pocket Arcade Retro Games

One-time1
  • Unlock All Games$3.99

Questions

Is Crown Heist free?
Crown Heist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pocket Arcade Retro Games free?
Pocket Arcade Retro Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Crown Heist or Pocket Arcade Retro Games have ads?
Neither Crown Heist nor Pocket Arcade Retro Games shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crown Heist or Pocket Arcade Retro Games?
Crown Heist ships an update weekly, and Pocket Arcade Retro Games every 4 days. Most recently, Crown Heist was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pocket Arcade Retro Games on October 31, 2026.

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