HopFrog’s offbeat survival crafting adventure Forager initially launched on PC in the spring of last year, but it wasn’t until it arrived on the Nintendo Switch a few months later that it finally caught my attention. It looked like a colorful and cartoony take on Stardew Valley, a game I was obsessed with at the time, mixed in with a dash of something like Minecraft or Terraria. All of that was blended with a heavy pinch of plain old weirdness. As much as I loved the look of Forager, I never ended up pulling the trigger on the Switch version, and in the back of my mind I couldn’t help but think that it would be the perfect type of game for mobile.
Well I wasn’t the only one thinking that apparently, as back on the game’s one-year anniversary in April, HopFrog announced that a mobile version was in the cards, and although no release date was mentioned, another update in June specified that the mobile version would feature all of the content updates released for other versions thus far, so we would be getting the full-fledged Forager experience on our mobile devices? whenever that may be.
After impatiently waiting for a few more months, just a few weeks back it was revealed that Forager would finally be arriving on mobile on September 24th. A quick check of the old calendar tells me that September 24th is tomorrow. Well, what would have been a glorious day has been soured by last-minute news that the mobile version of Forager is now dela...