Arkadia.

Ἀρχὴ ἥμισυ παντός, “the beginning is half of the whole”

Arcade games where you draw the artwork yourself.

Seven endless games share one sketchbook and one wallet. Draw a symbol, a ball, a block, anything you like, and it becomes the art you play with.

Download free on the App Store

iPhone and iPad · iOS 16.4 or later · free to play

Arkadia's drawing editor with a hand-drawn smiling face on the canvas. A Cascade match-three board where every symbol is that same hand-drawn face.

Draw it → play it

That is the whole idea. What you draw in the editor is what comes down the board thirty seconds later.

The drawing editor: a smiling face drawn with a thick black brush, with brush, eraser, undo and a colour row beneath.

A real drawing tool

Brushes, sizes, an eyedropper, undo and redo. Not a colour picker and not a set of presets — a canvas.

A Cascade board filled with copies of the drawn face in six different frame shapes.

Then it is the game

The same drawing becomes the symbol you match, the ball you bank off a wall, the block that comes down. One sketchbook, every game.

Seven games, one sketchbook

Every game is endless and gets harder. There is no last level, only your best score and whoever is above you on the board.

Cascade

Match three, chase the cascade, spend your moves wisely.

Ricochet

Bank shots off the walls to clear the board before it reaches you.

Ascent

Pop what rises before it escapes.

Fling

Pull back, let go, and bring the whole fort down.

Glide

Tap to fly. One capsule, endless sky.

Bulwark

Hold the road. Place your machines, break what is coming.

Vault

Tilt to climb an endless run of ledges. Miss once and it is over.

The soft plaster and olive-branch backdrop from Arkadia's drawing editor.

How it works

Three steps, and the first one is the whole point.

1

Draw it yourself

A real drawing tool, not a colour picker. Brushes, sizes, an eyedropper, undo and redo. Draw something once and use it in every game.

2

Play with what you made

Your drawing becomes the symbol you match, the ball you bank off a wall, the block that comes down. The same sketchbook feeds all seven games.

3

Climb the board

Scores are ranked per game, and only clean runs count. Playing without an account keeps your scores on your phone; linking one carries them to your next phone.

The soft sky-and-sea backdrop from Arkadia's Play screen.

Skill, not size

Your art is a skin, never a shortcut. The game decides the shape, you decide how it looks — nobody wins by drawing a huge blob.

Coins are earned by playing and shared across every game, paying out at the same rate per minute everywhere. No game is the efficient one, so you can just play the one you like.

Draw something, then go and play it

Free, on iPhone and iPad.

Download free on the App Store