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This app is indispensable for me for the effort of writing. The grammar highlighting forces me to clarify my prose and avoids unnecessary wordiness. Markdown remains my preferred method to get thoughts onto the page without the fiddliness of WYSIWYG writers like Word, Pages, or GDocs.

While gamers are awash with roguelike deckbuilders, Abalon sets itself apart with tactical movement and meaningful combos. The touchscreen movement is buttery smooth, which lets you focus on the puzzle during battles. Any game where a major character’s weapon is flinging squirrels at enemies, which you can mutate into hulk squirrel really has something special.

This game works surprising well on an iPhone, but you will have to get used to it. It is an artifact of gaming from the 90’s, which means incredibly complex rules and interactions. If you are into that, this is, indeed, a classic.