Download Badland Party for free from Apple Arcade today

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Apple Arcade subscribers can download Badland Party right now.
Badland Party is available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.

Badland Party is the latest game to land in Apple Arcade with gamers on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even Apple TV gaining a new title to try out. The new multiplayer title can be had as of right now.

The latest game to grace Apple Arcade and the App Store, Badland Party is free for all payers of the aforementioned subscription and is without any ads or in-app purchases. That's always a bonus, especially given the App Store's love of an in-app purchase!

The game itself features 40 levels and 30 unlockable characters as well as Game Canter and iCloud support. That last one means that gamers can look forward to their progress syncing between devices.

Badland Party continues its creators quest to perfect atmospheric side-scrolling adventures with stunning graphics and innovative physics-based gameplay. Witness the award-winning series take the visual allure another step forward, introduce dozens of new characters to play with and allow friends to play together in both local and online multiplayer modes. Or enjoy a single player adventure together with an AI companion.Survive through multiple new worlds, take down giant machines in epic boss-fights, co-operate to solve multiplayer puzzles, roll, fly, swim and dive through the beautiful lush world of Badland and help save the Clones from the heinous contraptions of the machine kind.

You can download Badland Party (opens in new tab) right now, but you'll need to be an Apple Arcade subscriber. Priced at $4.99 per month, the subscription is even better value when paired with Apple Music and other services via the Apple One bundle.

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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.