Apple starts App Store Indie Games Week with seven new arrivals

This week is Indie Games Week in Apple’s App Store, a celebration of games made by independent developers. Throughout the week, the App Store will spotlight "indie gems" with daily features and curated collections, and seven "highly acclaimed" titles are making their debut on iPhone and iPad, either available for download now or up for pre-order. The first one Apple highlights is Sifu, the third-person kung fu brawler from Sloclap and Kepler Interactive.

It arrives "fully adapted" for mobile, with custom-tuned touch controls, a reworked camera system, and full controller support. Apple starts App Store Indie Games Week with seven new arrivals. Then there’s Vampire Crawlers, a gothic card battler from Poncle and Nosebleed Interactive that’s a spin-off of Vampire Survivors, trading dodging bullets for deck building.

The biggest name of the bunch is probably No Man’s Sky, which Hello Games is bringing to iPhone and iPad on October 28 – so this one is a pre-order for now. The mobile version includes every major content expansion to date, including the recent Cosmos update that lets you command your own space station. The rest of the lineup consists of Little Kitty, Big City, the kingdom builder 9 Kings, the alien mining simulator Dome Keeper, and Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall.

Alongside new betas of iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, and macOS Golden Gate 27.2, Apple released the fourth betas of watchOS 27.2 and visionOS 27.2. The betas come a week after Apple released the third betas, but there is no tvOS 27.2 beta 4 yet.

Registered developers can download the betas through the Settings app on each device. With iOS 27.2 and watchOS 27.2, Apple is testing the new Health app that it showed off during its September iPhone event.

The updated Health app has new Insights and Longevity tabs with a readiness score that uses information from the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 models. There’s no word on what’s being added in visionOS 27.2 and tvOS 27.2, but Apple the fourth-generation Apple TV that Apple released today includes support for Siri AI features.

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