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?
 
Space Pioneer
Space Pioneer (Free) from Vivid Games has been on my radar for nearly a year, ever since it first soft-launched last July under the original name Outer Pioneer. Something about the art style just really clicked with me, and I love top-down shooters. I dabbled with that soft-launch version way back when, and more recently, we were able to get a hands-on demo of Space Pioneer during GDC this past March. Now after that lengthy soft-launch period, Space Pioneer has finally officially launched worldwide this week, and boy has it not only met my expectat...