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?
 
Minesweeper Genius
I am all about different game genres being mixed together in clever ways, and I have to admit I'd never even thought of mixing the classic Minesweeper with something like Picross or Sudoku. But that's exactly what developer Mother Gaia Studio has done with their new release Minesweeper Genius [$1.99] which arrived in the App Store this week, and after just the first few minutes of playing I found myself wondering how nobody had thought to do this sort of mashup before (to my knowledge).

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