Reigns review: the medieval strategy game based on Tinder

Swipe left and right to guide your kingdom to victory or die trying, in a simple, charming but sometimes infuriating mobile game

The best mobile game in the world is Tinder. It has a blissfully intuitive control scheme and, if you win, you make an actual emotional connection with a real-life human being, and maybe find happiness for the rest of your life. That's a pretty strong deal.

Aside from the chance of emotional (or maybe purely physical) satisfaction, that simple swiping control scheme is perfect for one-handed mobile operation. It reduces the entirety of the app to a series of simple binary choices on single screens of information. It's surprising that so few actual games have taken inspiration from it.