Play This: Gorgeous Platformer 'Leo's Fortune' Brings Striking Gameplay to iOS

Leo's gold has been stolen, and it's your job to get it back. This sounds like the line from many a cliche video game, as coin-collecting has been around as long as controllers themselves. Yet Leo's Fortune for iOS puts a darker twist on what that gold does to those who possess it.

Leo's Fortune follows Leo — a rolling monster with a bushy mustache — on a journey to find the gold thief. Players travel through nine different worlds with uniquely crafted mechanics and aesthetics to meet Leo's known associates and get to the bottom of the case.

While the game starts with a relatively simple platforming idea, designer Anders Hejdenberg of 1337 Game Studios in Sweden said the team of four wanted to do something they hadn't seen before. Read more...