The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn’t necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the highest scoring game in a review, the game with the best graphics, or really any other quantifiable “best" thing. Instead, it’s more just us picking out the single game out of the week’s releases that we think is the most noteworthy, surprising, interesting, or really any other hard to describe quality that makes it worth having if you were just going to pick up one.
These picks might be controversial, and that’s OK. If you disagree with what we’ve chosen, let’s try to use the comments of these articles to have conversations about what game is your game of the week and why. Without further ado?
 
Battle Hunters
I had never even heard a peep about Battle Hunters ($5.99) when it arrived out of nowhere on the App Store late last week, nor had I heard of developer Phase Two Games. As it turns out, this is a two-man operation made up of developers from IronMonkey Studios, who were bought out by EA in 2010 and then forged with Firemint when EA picked them up in 2011 to create FireMonkey Studios. Now they’ve struck out on their own as Phase Two, working for the past few years on Battle Hunters, motivated by “wanting to make a game that we would ...