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?
 
In the Dog House
Nitrome is a top-tier publisher on mobile, with so many great games to their name. Leap Day (Free) is perhaps their biggest hit, but so many of their titles are so good, and their work at bringing titles like Tower Fortress (Free) to market in a high-quality state is quite apparent. In some ways, In the Dog House ($2.99) is one of their more basic games: at its heart, it’s a sliding puzzler, but you have to get a dog and their bone from point A to point B by navigating rooms of the house, which slide around according to different rules. Yo...