BeetrootArcade

A free first run in every game — even with zero credits — plus 3 starter credits for replays and your daily credit. You can try the whole arcade before you spend anything.

Each game lets you play its first run free. It doesn't use a credit, and you don't need any credits to start it. From your second run in a game, each play costs 1 credit — earned from daily rewards, adverts, or purchased. Subscribers to the Monthly or Annual Pass play unlimited.

Claim your free credit every day and the reward ramps up: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, then 5 credits on day 7. Miss a day and the streak resets — simple as that.

Credits have no expiry timer and remain available until you spend them. Beetroot Arcade has no conventional user account, so uninstalling the app, resetting your device or clearing its data may remove locally stored credits.

Share your personal link, short code or QR code from Profile. When your friend applies it and completes their first game, you both receive 5 credits, and your first successful invite earns a 2-credit bonus on top. Referrers can earn rewards for up to 10 successful friends, with milestones along the way at 1, 3, 5 and 10.

No. You can apply one friend or creator code per installation, before completing your first game. The app identifies which type of code you entered and previews the reward before you confirm it.

For your first 72 hours after opening Beetroot Arcade, every credit pack includes 50% extra credits at the normal displayed price. The pack and purchase confirmation show the total before you buy.

Tickets are a separate prize currency for the in-app cosmetic shop — avatar frames, CRT themes, name styles, confetti, hero accessories, room decor and more. You earn them by playing well: every score pays out tickets, with bonuses for personal bests, weekly bests, daily challenges and daily missions, plus rewards for levelling up. Tickets never unlock plays, and credits never buy cosmetics.

Yes. Build your own pixel hero and give it hats, glasses, jackets, shoes and other accessories, then decorate your private hero room with backgrounds, floors and decor. You can also equip avatar frames, CRT themes, name styles and confetti. All of it is bought with tickets you earn through play.

Every game has Bronze, Silver and Gold mastery tiers based on your high score. Playing, trying new games, hitting mastery tiers and keeping your streak all add to your account-wide Arcade Level, and levelling up pays out tickets and unlocks exclusive rewards such as the Arcade Ace avatar frame.

Yes. Home-screen widgets for Daily Credit, Streak, Game of the Day and Continue are available on iPhone and Android, styled to match your equipped CRT theme.

Yes. There's a colour-blind mode that boosts hue contrast in game palettes, plus separate switches for sound, 8-bit sound effects and haptics. You can also turn the optional daily reminder on or off, and ask for a confirmation before a credit is spent.

There are no forced ads and no ads during gameplay. You can optionally watch a short advert to earn an extra credit — capped at 5 a day, and only if you want to.

Yes. Every game has a global leaderboard — powered by Apple Game Center on iPhone and iPad and Google Play Games on Android — plus 30+ achievements to unlock across the arcade. Connecting either service is optional.

It’s out now on iPhone, iPad, Android and visionOS. Download Beetroot Arcade free from the App Store or Google Play.

Beetroot Arcade is available on iPhone, iPad and visionOS through the App Store, and on Android through Google Play. It's designed around portrait phones, and on Android tablets and unfolded foldables the app rotates freely and lays itself out for the bigger screen.

One independent UK developer. Beetroot Arcade is a personal labour of love — original games, no studio bloat, no pay-to-win nonsense.