Those of you looking to play the next game from Threes ($5.99) creator Asher Vollmer finally have your chance, though not on mobile. While his game Close Castles is on hold (and not necessarily planned as a mobile game), you can play Royals right now. This is a smaller game currently on Windows and Mac, where you play as a peasant, trying to make your way in a 1-bit world, and eventually become a royal. Much like Drake, you’ll have to start from the bottom, though. But over time, you and your whole team can get to the top. But death will eventually come for you. Literally, you can die of old age.

Now, Royals isn’t currently on mobile (though if you have a Windows tablet, it technically is, I suppose!), but it’s not impossible that it would come to iOS. I played an early version of the game at GDC, hooked up to an MFi controller. And I asked Asher Vollmer and he said he’s “undecided" about a mobile version, so it’s not impossible. Still, this game absolutely enthralled me when I was at GDC, and I’m looking forward to sitting down and playing some more of this.