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TouchArcade Game of the Week: 'Ember'



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?
 
Ember
There's no shortage of classic CRPG-style games on the App Store, nor is there a lack of Diablo-style ARPGs. Ok, so there's not a TON of either, but there's some good options. The Baldur's Gate series or Icewind Dale scratch the itch for the former, and games like Titan Quest scratch the itch of the latter. Then there's basically anything from Spiderweb Software. However, this week brought a brand new isometric RPG to the App Store called Ember [$6.99], and it does a fine job of straddling the line between both types of RPGs.

Ember has you playing as a resurrected Lightbringer, a being w...
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