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?
 
Star Diffusion
I always appreciate a good top-down shooter. It’s just one of those genres that has always worked really well on mobile as it lends itself well to touchscreen controls. I also appreciate a good survival horror game, but there are FAR less of those on mobile compared to top-down shooters. So it’s quite a treat when a developer combines those two genres into an atmospheric survival horror game that plays super well on mobile due to its top-down nature. That describes Star Diffusion in a nutshell, a new top-down shooter with the heart of ...