game of the week

Well this is a weird one for a couple of different reasons. First, Suika Game isn’t exactly new. It launched on the Nintendo Switch in Japan way back in 2021, but some prominent game streamers discovered it last year and caused it to go…

For me Hexage is one of those developers that harkens back to the early days of the App Store and really the beginnings of iPhone gaming. I have spent many collective hours playing the likes of Totemo, Radiant, Radiant Defense, EVAC,…

Let me start off this write-up with a scolding: Developers, make trailers for your games! Trojuhelnicky is a new game from developer Inputwish, who you may know from their excellent Go Rally, and it kind of sounds like this was the passion…

I remember when Reigns first came out back in 2016 and it kind of blew everyone’s mind that someone would take the simplistic binary left/right swiping of Tinder and create an entire game around it. I mean, so many games are just a series…

I am bananas for hand-drawn and animated graphics in games, particularly ones that feature a bunch of silly or weird characters and a very “homemade art project" presentation, if that makes sense. Games like Hidden Folks and Krispee Street…

I know this is the Game of the Week, but I might dial things back a bit and declare it the Charming As All Get Out Digital Toy But Also Kind of a Game of the Week just for this week only. Or maybe some future weeks too, I don’t know. The…

So often we view things we grew up loving through rose-colored glasses, and upon revisiting them later in life end up soiling those good memories we once had. This is especially true when talking about video games. There are games I adored…

I can’t say for sure that it was the first one to do it, but I can say that my own personal first experience with the “merge" genre was Spry Fox’s Triple Town way back in 2012 when the popular web-based game hit iOS. This was really an…

We’re used to seeing games from other platforms make their way to mobile devices, be it from PC, or console, or of course other handhelds. However, I think this might mark the first time a Playdate game has made the jump to iOS. Scenic…

It’s hard to believe but we’re just a few months away from the 5-year anniversary of Codebrew Games aka developer Bobby Li launching the original Pocket City in the App Store. A full premium city-building sim is something that was severely…