Ranking

Six Arcade listings on this atlas, drawn in one sitting

I did not collect these cards over a season. Six URLs arrived. Six passports were typed on 22 September 2026. The atlas is the sitting, not a hall of fame.

What the store was willing to say

Every card is Free with in-app purchases. None of them publish a download count — App Store listings do not. Two cards carry loot-box advisories (Raid Rush, Rush Defense). One card carries Contains Advertising (Chicken Invaders Universe). One card carries 17+ (Rush Defense). One card carries 4+ (Icebreaker Fishing). One card carries no US rating sample (Moorhuhn Invasion). Those six sentences are the atlas in skeleton form.

File sizes run 195.3 MB to 466.1 MB. OS floors run 12.0 to 15.0. First-release dates run 2014 (Sky Force) to 2025 (Icebreaker Fishing, Moorhuhn Invasion). I lined those dates up because a doorway would hide them under a single “updated recently” badge.

Why six, and why this mix

Three shooters would have been a clean Arcade magazine. Adding two defense listings and an idle floe makes the desk look indecisive until you remember the incoming list. I am not a curator with a budget. I am a clerk with URLs. The mix is honest about that. Rank order is the only place I used judgement: public sample, Arcade silhouette, then the hardness of the age panel, then the empty scoreboard.

What I refused to type

Best. Top six. Free download. A 2026 in a title. A million players. A quote from a session on a hosted build. Calumma Games does not host the binary. If a sentence cannot survive that constraint, it does not belong on the atlas.

How to read the ranks without treating them as a podium

No. 1 is the listing I can cite longest. No. 6 is the listing I can cite least. The reviews between them are not a slope of quality. They are a slope of how much the store gave me to work with, plus whether the card still reads as Arcade without a fight. Icebreaker Fishing “lost” to Raid Rush on silhouette, not on its 4.8. Moorhuhn Invasion “lost” to everyone on sample size, not on a secret playtest.

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