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?
 
Beat Hazard 2
The arrival of Beat Hazard 2 on mobile isn’t just the arrival of a sequel to a game I loved, it’s like the arrival of an old friend. I can’t count how many hours I spent playing the original Beat Hazard on my phone back in the early 2010s, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was many hundreds. In fact, when I was sitting down explicitly to listen to music, you know as opposed to having music on while doing something else, I preferred to listen by way of Beat Hazard. I guess technically that IS listening to music while doing so...