Like most (all?) weeks in the world of iOS gaming, there`s no shortage of things happening and games being released. I spent last weekend at the Hearthstone Summer Championship and wrote about the experience. It`s downright incredible to see how huge esports are getting, particularly when Blizzard invites you to hang out in their real-deal esports arena they just built inside of the studio that was once home to The Tonight Show. Last weekend was packed with mobile esports in general, as Las Vegas was home to Amazon`s Mobile Masters. I`m curious to see how Mobile Masters evolves over the years as esports over-saturation is definitely a thing.
Anyway, my favorite game that was released this week is Layton Hawkes` Campfire Cooking. It`s a super clever puzzler that focuses on managing food you`re cooking over a campfire by moving things around on a grid. We`ve got a great interview over on TouchArcade digging into the background of the game, along with some early concept art and work in progress shots. If nothing else, it`s super refreshing to just play a $4 puzzle game that feels like a complete game experience instead of being packed with freemium shenanigans.
Another really cool game that came out this week is Guns Royale, which as of right now is the closest thing to a bite-sized mobile version of Playerunknown`s Battlegrounds. Instead of 100 players, it`s 16, and it takes place on a top-down Minecraft-y island. Aside from that limitation, it follows the Battle Royale format exactly with looting, killing, and surviving.
The sequel to the incredible Warhammer Quest was also released this week. We`ve got a review up for Warhammer Quest 2 where we gave it five stars. It`s a beautiful turn-based strategy game where players make their way through various Warhammer adventures. There`s one minor caveat to this recommendation though, as a few people in the TouchArcade community with older iOS devices that aren`t running iOS 11 are ex ...
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