I think it’s far enough into the year that it’s not a spoiler to say that Interloper ($5.99) is one of my very favorite mobile games of 2020. This project by Anchorite aka solo developer Matt Purchase arrived back in July and offered some of the most intense space dogfighting action around, with an incredible visual style and lots of fancy effects. What made it really suitable for mobile was its roguelike-inspired structure which had you completing multiple missions in a row and earning loot for each successful completion, with the option to go back to your base with all the loot you’ve collected or press on through more and more missions for increasingly better loot with the caveat being if you don’t make it out alive you’d lose all of your previously earned loot. Classic risk vs. reward design applied perfectly to a first-person space shooter. For all of these reasons we chose Interloper as our Game of the Week when it launched.
Well if you bought Interloper when it came out then you are well aware that Anchorite has been going HAM on releasing updates on what feels like an almost weekly basis. These have largely centered on bug fixes and gameplay balancing, but have also included some cool new features along the way like new enemy types, new mission types, a cool Drift Flight option, and a Daily Run that acts as an endless mode that changes each day and features Game Center leaderboards to compete on. It’s a pretty darn full...