Touch Arcade

Want a game with a goofy premise you can pick up and progress in steadily? Never Stop Sneakin' has way more character than the average daily "pick up and play" mobile game, that's for sure.

It's not the freshest game around, but it's well-constructed, fun, challenging, and fair. That puts it near the top of the cooking class on iOS as far as I'm concerned.

All in all, it's a great selection that fills in some of the gaps that players have been asking Tin Man about for a while. There's a very notable absent title that should be coming later on, but there's plenty here to keep you busy until the next wave hits. The best of the bunch of City of Thieves, but there's definitely something to be said for starting with Warlock and working your way through in order. As you would expect from this developer, the interface is excellent and they've given all of the little details the treatment they deserve. I can't wait for the next batch of titles to come and hope that this is just the start of getting as many of the Fighting Fantasy books onto mobile as possible.

Armello ain't perfect, but it's worth your time to experiment and see if you like it, and then you can spend as much or as little as you want to keep enjoying it.

While it's more of a riff on something you've probably seen before rather than being something totally new, it's well-made and definitely worth checking out.

Whether you look at dialogue and story line, or implementation of mechanics, or just sheer volume of gameplay, Evoland 2 is not just a huge improvement on the original but also an amazing way to extend your experiences you may have had with those old school games that it emulates. Evoland 2 pulls off something very difficult to do, it keeps it's own unique feel and functions as a greatest hits anthology. Go get it if you haven't already!

Mirror Land is better than I was expecting given this developer's track record, and it can be quite enjoyable at times. But for a game that doesn't try to extract any additional money from the player beyond the initial asking price, it sure feels structured like a game that does. The stop-and-start pacing and tremendous amounts of repetitive grinding required detract greatly from a game that could otherwise be pretty solid. There's a decent game here, and it's really only in the incidentals that it doesn't shake out to be more than that.

The tricky bit is whether or not you'll want to stick around after that initial romp. I mean, you probably could. It's an agreeable enough game and there's a good chunk of content to burn through if you're that-way inclined. But if you've burnt out on or bounced off of a social RPG in the past, you're likely going to look at Heir of Light the way you'd look at your seventh straight plate of spaghetti and meatballs. It's not bad spaghetti, but it's still just spaghetti. Yes, even with that bit of parsley decoratively garnishing the plate. If you've still got room in your stomach for more spaghetti, though, this won't make you sick.

Read Only Memories is a rather conflicting experience for me because I love its unique world, I just think that it suffers under some of its stylistic decisions to make for an experience that's a little too slow for my tastes. If you're patient, I do recommend playing this, especially with the free demo available. But I would recommend playing this on a system with physical controls, especially since you're missing out on the voice acting with the mobile version. Still, Read Only Memories: Type-M is something you have to experience for yourself.

If you decide to pick up The Bonfire, it might be for the spirit of discovery and adventure, or it might be for the artistic quality and simplicity. It may even be for the fact that so many great games seem to be comparable to this one. Whatever your decision is predicated on, there is so much here to enjoy. A certain zen tranquility exists playing the game. Even if you were to constantly be re-allocating workers to maximize production and push for a high score, the simple act of existing and working that you see the hero and the village going through has a therapeutic quality that is well worth the price tag.