Last September during the big event where Apple unveiled the iPhone 11, they brought developer Tipsworks onstage to demo their upcoming game Pascal’s Wager to showcase what the new iPhone hardware was capable of. Pascal’s Wager was a dark fantasy action RPG that indeed looked very impressive, but perhaps even more impressive was that it was set to be released as a premium title, which is against the grain of the majority of similar games on mobile which go the free to play route. It also seemed kind of odd to showcase Pascal’s Wager mere minutes after releasing a bunch of details about Apple Arcade, Apple’s subscription gaming service that offers access to more than 100 premium games for a monthly fee that’s roughly equivalent to one premium game in today’s market. I guess they wanted to show that even in the face of Apple Arcade there’s still room to release standalone premium games" Whatever the case Pascal’s Wager did eventually arrive in mid-January and also came through on its promises of offering a compelling Dark Souls-like experience on mobile.
Much like its inspiration, Pascal’s Wager could be an especially difficult game. Most fans of Souls-like games revel in this difficulty and wear it as a badge of honor, but that difficulty can also alienate the less hardcore gaming audience. A big point of contention in certain parts of the gaming world centers on whether games like this should be made more acc...