Apple has highlighted spatial gaming on Vision Pro including three upcoming native games from well-known developers, built specifically for visionOS.
According to a February 15 Apple Newsroom announcement, coming-soon titles include Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City by Land & Sea/Snowman, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees by Broken Rules and Spire Blast by Orbital Knight.
There are currently twelve spatial games built specifically for Vision Pro in the App Store. In addition, more than 250 iPhone and iPad games on Apple Arcade ($7/month) can be played on Vision Pro with a compatible game controller.
3 new spatial games coming soon to Vision Pro
Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City, created by Land & Sea and published by Canada’s Snowman, invites you to “soar above windswept dunes in a fantastical place far from home.” A spatial take on the famous endless snowboarding franchise intersects the game’s procedurally generated worlds with your room.
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees by Broken Rules is described as “a beautiful, heartfelt adventure where a family of gibbons finds themselves lost in a dangerous world beyond their understanding.” The key spatial experience in Gibbon is its free-flowing, dynamic movement based on how real gibbons swing through the trees.
Spire Blast from Orbital Knight is a fun physics-based puzzle game that has you blasting vibrant towers. The Vision Pro version puts towers of all shapes and sizes in your room. This lets you walk around to line up the perfect shot, spectacularly collapsing the towers.
Spatial gaming on Vision Pro
Spatial games take full advantage of mixed reality and the unique features of Vision Pro, blending digital content with the physical world.
“Players are able to slice apples with their hands as their living room transforms into their very own dojo in Super Fruit Ninja, tee up the perfect shot as they move freely around a quirky golf course right in their home in WHAT THE GOLF?, escape into a mesmerizing audiovisual experience in Synth Riders, and more,” Apple says.
Another example is Game Room, which brings tabletop classics like chess, hearts, solitaire and more to your living room.
The spatial games currently available for Vision Pro include Game Room, WHAT THE GOLF?, Cut the Rope 3, Jetpack Joyride 2, Patterned, Illustrated, Wylde Flowers, stitch., Synth Riders, LEGO Builder’s Journey, Bloons TD 6+ and Super Fruit Ninja.
They’re only available with an Apple Arcade subscription, priced at $6/month.
More than 1000 Vision Pro apps available
visionOS App Store launched with over 600 apps and games specifically designed for the new device, or about a hundred more than the App Store debuted with back in 2008. Apple’s marketing boss Greg Joswiak said on February 13 that that number rose to more than a thousand native Vision Pro titles in less than two weeks.
Vision Pro also marked a return to paid upfront apps. Appfigures data shared with TechCrunch revealed over half of visionOS-only apps (52 percent) were paid downloads versus five percent of paid upfront downloads on the iPhone’s App Store.
The average selling price of Vision Pro apps is $5.67, with the highest price at $98 (for an interactive periodic table of elements). Most apps are priced at $9.99 or below. And if you bought all the paid apps, it would cost you $1,089.07 — which is still less than the cost of the device itself, which starts at $3,499.