The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn’t necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the highest scoring game in a review, the game with the best graphics, or really any other quantifiable “best" thing. Instead, it’s more just us picking out the single game out of the week’s releases that we think is the most noteworthy, surprising, interesting, or really any other hard to describe quality that makes it worth having if you were just going to pick up one.
These picks might be controversial, and that’s OK. If you disagree with what we’ve chosen, let’s try to use the comments of these articles to have conversations about what game is your game of the week and why. Without further ado?
 
Ark: Survival Evolved
Ark: Survival Evolved (Free) from Studio Wildcard has been something of a work-in-progress for years now. It originally launched in early access back in 2015, with its “final" release not coming until just last year. I remember hearing murmurs of how awesome the game was back at E3 2015 and the game seemed to garner quite a following during its early access period. By the time the final launch came around it had a built-in audience already, and as cool as this all is and as much great things as I’ve heard about Ark, I never...