I am NOT shy about professing my love for Pixelnest Studio’s roguelike shoot ’em up Steredenn ($3.99). Originally launched on Steam way back in the fall of 2015, the following year it made its way to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and drew critical acclaim everywhere it went. It wasn’t until May of last year that Steredenn finally made its debut on iOS complete with some very novel improvements and features that made it play extremely well on a touchscreen device. We loved the iOS version of Steredenn in our review and I gushed over it in our Game of the Week writeup as well as included it in my personal Best Games of 2017 list. Like I said I’m not shy about telling people how much I love Steredenn.

Well, since before that iOS release, Pixelnest had been working on an absolutely massive update for Steredenn called Binary Stars which would add in multiple new playable ships, tons of cool new weaponry, a number of new bosses, and much more. They worked on that content update for more than a year and initially released Steredenn: Binary Stars on the Nintendo Switch this past March and then went to work bringing the new update to all the other platforms. One by one Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 all received that sweet Binary Stars goodness, but it never ended up materializing for the iOS version. I actually reached out to Pixelnest on Twitter at one point to ask what was up and they assured me that it was in the works but they weren’...