Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is an adventure game from ustwo games coming to Apple Arcade this Friday

Alba Apple Arcade Screenshot
Alba Apple Arcade Screenshot (Image credit: Apple)

What you need to know

  • Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, from ustwo games, is coming to Apple Arcade this Friday, December 11.

Apple Arcade is getting another adventure game this Friday, this time from the awesome folk at ustwo games. Alba: a Wildlife Adventure will be free for all Apple Arcade subscribers.

The new game will follow Alba as she does her best to save the island she lives on.

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure from ustwo games follows an adorable adventurer visiting her grandparents on a beautiful Mediterranean island. Alba is ready for a peaceful summer of wildlife exploration with her friend Ines, but when she sees an animal in danger, she knows she needs to do something about it. Alba soon realizes the island has seen better days and is under threat from a corrupt politician with a devious plan. With Ines and her grandfather - who is a total bird nerd - by her side, she can start the movement to save the island...maybe even the world after that.

From the BAFTA-Award winning studio behind Monument Valley and Assemble with Care comes something entirely new!Join Alba as she visits her grandparents on a Mediterranean island. She is ready for a peaceful summer of wildlife exploration with her friend Ines, but when she sees an animal in danger, she realizes she needs to do something about it!

As part of Alba's environmentally conscious message, ustwo games will also plant a tree for every time the game is downloaded. The goal is to plant a cool one million trees in partnership with Ecologi. With that in mind, why not give the game a try? You're quite literally helping save the planet by playing!

Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.