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?

Steredenn is a horizontal shoot ’em up from developer Pixelnest Studio that launched on iOS in May of last year, and is one of my very favorite games to date. So why am I talking about it here" Well this week Fantastico Studio launched their new game Black Paradox ($3.99), and it’s so similar in concept to Steredenn that it’s hard to talk about one without talking about the other. Both games are horizontal shoot ’em ups with roguelike elements; namely that each level you play is randomly generated in terms of enemy types and patter...