A Fold Apart asks players to solve over 50 handcrafted paper-folding puzzles. But the real goal of this title that debuted Friday on Apple Arcade is to bring together a couple struggling through a long-distance relationship.
A Fold Apart is more than a simple puzzler
Lightning Rod Games’s latest tells a true-to-life story of a long-distance relationship. When two lovers get separated by circumstance, players bring them together “by flipping, folding, and unfolding the paper puzzles in their handcrafted world.” And each puzzle helps the couple overcome the emotional barriers, not just physical ones.
The game offers beautiful 3D graphics, and the dozens of puzzles offer a “homemade” paper aesthetic.
Versions of a A Fold Apart for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV debuted today on Apple Arcade.
Play on Apple Arcade
A Fold Apart, and over 100 more games, are all part of Apple Arcade. Playing any or all of them costs $4.99 a month, and no more — in-app purchases and ads are banned from Apple’s gaming service.
A similar titles on the gaming service is Where Cards Fall by Snowman.
Ed Hardy has been writing full-time about tech for 25 years, and using it for much longer than that. His intro to Apple was a Macintosh Classic II (which he still has), but now he uses a 13-inch iPad Pro as his primary computer. He’s written for NotebookReview, TabletPCReview, and Brighthand, as well as other sites.
