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Looking beyond the simple equation of playtime for money, though, I'm not sure that the game does itself any favors in coupling such a long playtime with so deliberate a difficulty curve.

We go way more in depth with how to actually play the game and how to maximize its free to play elements in our series of guides, so if that's the kind of thing you're into, start here at our beginner's guide.

In fact, how utterly fantastic this mobile re-imagination of Lineage II is has the wheels turning in my head of what other awesome MMORPGs are there out there that enterprising developers could re-release as a auto-play mobile progress game that wouldn't also be just as awesome?

So where does that leave us? ESWAT isn't an all-time classic, but it's a decent game. It happens to be one that plays somewhat poorly with virtual controls, but if you have an MFi controller you don't really need to worry about that.

Rebel Twins seems to continue improving with every game, and they deserve the price of admission. If you liked the first one, give this a shot for the variety it brings to the old formula, and if you haven’t played it, feel free to jump in. I’d still recommend playing both, honestly. Great mostly-mindless action fun.

All that said, I am game to keep playing. If I wasn’t a sci-fi lover expecting more of a story, I probably wouldn’t have been disappointed by the story and just enjoyed the solid puzzles and fantastic visuals. And the game does a wonderful job of planting those seeds of wonder and inquisitiveness.

At any rate, there's not much else I can say about this without spoiling its wonderful story more than I already have. Chilling, thought-provoking, and decidedly human, Heart of the House is an excellent piece of interactive fiction.

If you've got an appetite for unusual games, have good reflexes, and a keen ability to assess patterns quickly, Million Onion Hotel was made just for you. If you don't? Well, you'll probably have a good time with it anyway. It can be really confusing at times, but usually in a good way.

If you approach Final Fantasy Dimensions 2 with the appropriate expectations, I think you'll find it a reasonably enjoyable game. It's a little too watered down for me to give it too emphatic a recommendation, particularly given the price bracket it's sitting in. At the same time, however, I can't say I didn't have a lot of fun with it, nor can I say that it didn't offer a sufficient amount of content for the price.

DeCap Attack is a decent game from the SEGA 16-bit library. I wouldn't say it was excellent even in its own era, and pouring it through virtual controls and a sometimes-finicky emulator doesn't do it many favors. At the same time, if you look at this game in the context of the iOS library, it's pretty darned fun. Chuck is a great character, even if he is weird as all get-out.