Recreation Freak could also be greatest often known as the builders of Pokémon, however in an early 2023 shock, one of many studio’s few non-Pokémon video games is getting a refreshed new launch for Apple gadgets. Pocket Card Jockey: Journey On!, a remake of the 3DS title Pocket Card Jockey, is coming to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV through Apple Arcade on January twentieth.

Pocket Card Jockey is a “solitaire and horse-racing hybrid,” Recreation Freak writes on the sport’s App Retailer itemizing. “Focus your thoughts and clear playing cards with subsequent numbers in fast succession. The extra playing cards you clear, the higher your horse’s temper will likely be—which helps them cost vitality throughout races!”

I’ll admit that I’ve by no means performed the unique, and I don’t utterly get it even after watching a video on the sport’s App Retailer web page or a trailer for the unique. However in 2016, my colleague Andrew Webster mentioned that after you get the cling of its bizarre idea, the sport turns into “near-impossible to place down, since you simply know you might do higher subsequent time.”

At the moment, Pocket Card Jockey is just obtainable through the Nintendo 3DS eShop. However with that digital storefront shutting down in March, this new model is arriving simply in time to let new gamers uncover the sport even once they can’t get it on the 3DS anymore.

Apple additionally introduced some further titles heading to Apple Arcade, its subscription service that already gives entry to greater than 200 video games. Episode XOXO, a brand new entry within the interactive storytelling recreation collection, will likely be obtainable on Friday. Illustrated, a brand new puzzle recreation that “blends” phrase and jigsaw puzzles, will likely be launched on January thirteenth. Squiggle Drop, a physics puzzler, launches on January twenty seventh. And Apple Arcade titles together with Offended Birds Reloaded and Jetpack Joyride 2 are getting new content material updates in January.