2025’s most downloaded game, Block Blast!, is going ad-free on Apple Arcade

The most downloaded mobile crippled past twelvemonth has conscionable landed connected Apple’s subscription gaming service, Apple Arcade. On Tuesday, Apple announced the summation of Block Blast!+, an ad-free mentation of the fashionable puzzle crippled that has astir 725 cardinal beingness installs, according to app quality supplier Appfigures. Other estimates enactment that fig adjacent higher, astatine 868 cardinal installs.

The crippled volition beryllium released connected Apple Arcade connected September 3, alongside a 2025 App Store Award winner, Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles+, and others.

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Apple’s interior information indicates that Block Blast! was the most downloaded escaped iPhone crippled successful 2025. It has continued to fertile No. 1 successful the aboriginal months of 2026, according to its developer, Hungry Studio, and different third-party app quality providers, specified arsenic Sensor Tower.

Given that the puzzle crippled continues to get tens of millions of caller users each month, it raises the question: wherefore would the workplace connection an ad-free Arcade mentation now, earlier maturation has plateaued? After all, conscionable a fewer months ago, the workplace reported that Block Blast! was inactive seeing precocious engagement, with 70 cardinal regular progressive users and 300 cardinal monthly progressive users worldwide. It adjacent promoted the rubric astatine this year’s Coachella, suggesting there’s inactive country for growth.

However, a deeper dive into the information indicates Block Blast! downloads whitethorn person fallen from their highest successful precocious 2024, erstwhile it was pulling successful astir 50 cardinal downloads per month. This suggests the rubric is so maturing, which makes it a bully campaigner for Apple’s subscription service.

For Block Blast! fans, which are inactive many, the Arcade mentation volition code the astir annoying happening astir playing this puzzler: each those ads. After each loss, ads play earlier you tin commencement a caller gaming session, starring users to swipe the crippled closed to skip the ad, past re-open the app to play again. It’s a tedious mode to play this puzzle game, and 1 that has agelong seen fans begging for a subscription enactment to spell ad-free. The Arcade mentation volition present beryllium that option.

Apple’s Arcade work is $6.99 per period for its 200+ games, oregon it tin beryllium bundled with Apple One plans, which commencement astatine $19.95/month for individuals.

Other titles launching connected Arcade connected September 3 see  NFL Retro Bowl ’27, Coloring Games for Families+, and Let’s Play! Oink Games+, a integer postulation of 9 tabletop games.