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?
 
Backfire
If there’s one thing that’s always been true about TouchArcade it’s that our community is great at finding hidden gems. When a member of our forums posted about developer Joel Rochon’s new game Backfire ($2.99) late last week, and other members were buzzing over how good it was, I knew it was a pretty safe bet to pick it up. And yet again this proves our forum members have impeccable taste in games. Backfire is a top-down arena shooter with the simple gimmick that you fire from the back of your ship. Get it" Back-fire. W...