Dust: An Elysian Tail [$5.99] is a fantastic combat-heavy Metroidvania-style action adventure game that originally released on Xbox 360 during the summer of 2012 but has since made its way to pretty much every other platform, including a surprisingly great iOS port in October of 2015. Besides being a great game, Dust also made waves for being almost entirely the work of just a single developer, Dean Dodrill of studio Humble Hearts. Given its incredible art and animation and overall level of quality, that's almost impossible to believe, but it's true.
So what happens when you're a lone developer and your years-in-the-making passion project ends up garnering tons of attention and great reviews" Well, you want to make your next game, but now you've got the world's eyes on you, which can make things tough. Rather than go for something with painstaking hand-drawn artwork and animation and complex combat mechanics like Dust, Humble Hearts went in almost the opposite direction for their second game Never Stop Sneakin' [$2.99], which has made a surprise appearance on the App Store today.
What I mean by going in the opposite direction is that Never Stop Sneakin' utilizes full 3D polygonal visuals, as opposed to the gorgeous 2D artwork of Dust. Also it's a heavily streamlined stealth game experience, rather than the beautiful but complex combat that Dust is known for. This is all pretty much on purpose, though. Never Stop Sneakin' is both an homage and parody to games like Met...