Is Kingdom Rush 6 on Apple Arcade?
No. On iPhone and iPad it is the regular App Store app at $6.99, with 8 heroes, 5 towers and 5 spells sold separately inside it. Ironhide has not said whether an Arcade version is coming.
The Kingdom Rush games that did get an Arcade version
Each of these earlier games came back as a separate Arcade app, with a “+” on the end of its name, some time after the paid version:
| Arcade app | Arrived after the paid app |
|---|---|
| Kingdom Rush Frontiers TD+ | about eight years |
| Kingdom Rush Vengeance TD+ | a little under four years |
| Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD+ | just under a year |
The gap has been shrinking, and Alliance, the game just before this one, made the jump in under a year. That is a pattern, not a promise: the Genesis listing is a paid app, and nothing on it points to an Arcade edition.
What an Arcade version changes
Apple Arcade is a monthly subscription with no ads and no in-app purchases. In Alliance TD+, the latest Kingdom Rush on Arcade, every hero, tower and DLC unlocks through play, and the same subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro.
The paid Genesis app works differently: those 18 heroes, towers and spells are sold in the app, singly or in bundles, and the rest are free: a few from the start, the others unlocked with stars as on Steam. The iPhone and Android page lists which ones, and the price page sets them against the Steam version.
If you want everything included now
The Steam version already works that way: $19.99 once, every hero, tower and spell included (the later ones unlocked by stars), on Windows and on Mac. The Mac page has the requirements, and the stars page shows how many each unlock needs.
Next in the codex
- iPhone and AndroidWhat the paid app sells, and the Play Pass plan on Android.
- Price: Steam vs mobileWhat each version costs to finish.
- All platformsEvery store in one table.
- Stars and unlocksWhat the stars open on Steam.