Play This: Your Guide To The Week's Best Downloadable Games

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Ever wanted to explore a totally non-Euclidian space? Or to put it more simply, to wander through an environment where spatial perception doesn’t follow a sense of logic or exist the way your perceptions think it does? This week you can. iOS gamers looking for a sports fix and players that like to think (either strategically or critically) will probably want to check out this week’s picks, too. Onward for the list…

Baseball Superstars 2013

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Platform: iOS, Android
Price: Free

Missing summer? You might want to check out the latest perennial offering in the 45 million-downloads-strong Baseball Superstars to satiate your craving for America's (here somewhat ironically Korean-flavored) favorite pastime. This one introduces customizable player management features while keeping the same high gloss anime-ish visuals and fluid animations. Batter up!

Skulls of the Shogun

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Platform: PC, XBLA
Price: $15

We remember previewing Skulls of the Shogun back in 2010, and it even at that point it was looking great. So it's been a long time coming. Thankfully, its interesting, fresh and funny take on turn-based strategy with modern mechanical trappings in samurai ghost armor is definitely worth your time. If you like Ogre Battle, Final Fantasy Tactics and the like, you'll probably want to check this one out-as long as you're ok with its Japanese flavor coming from artistic license, anyway.

Table Top Racing

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Platform: iOS
Price: $3

iOS gaming is becoming an increasingly viable (or at least feasible) option for large developers to make smaller side-project-style games. In this case you've got the creators of the long-running futuristic hover racing series Wipeout taking on a toybox racer (with great production values, to boot). Since others have said it we don't necessarily want to say Micro Machines, but it's basically Micro Machines.

Little Inferno

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Platform: iPad
Price: $5

Little Inferno is ostensibly an odd little game about setting material goods on fire. But if you stop and consider the implications of what you're doing and what you're burning-computer parts, dolls and other toys-it's actually a clever commentary on economics and commercialism. Seeing as how well it worked on the Wii U, we wouldn't expect this one to play any worse for wear on an iPad, and it's cheaper than on Nintendo's e-shop, too.

Antichamber

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Platform: Steam
Price: $15

You're walking down a long white corridor and stop at the foot of two brightly colored staircases-one leading up and one leading down. You decide to see what's upstairs, and as you ascend the steps, enter into a long white corridor. You walk down the space until you arrive, to your dismay, right where you started. Naturally this time you choose to go downstairs: another white corridor and you're back at the staircase. You stop to take stock of your situation. Uh, what? If your purpose is to move forward, what do you do? How do your stretch your perception to progress? This is basically Antichamber in a very basic nutshell. Play it.

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