I really enjoyed Gris on iOS

A forgiving 2D-platformer with straightforward puzzles, plus the occasional terrifying flight from a Venom symbiote-like creature.

A Dark Song (available on Netflix) is terrific and very scary

Free iOS game Thunderdogs is great

Frantic and satisfying dogfighting.

Patriot on Amazon Prime is really good

"To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous 'on-official cover' -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm."

(Think spy thriller written by Elmore Leonard.)

Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse is really good

Read it here. Also available as a podcast read by LeVar Burton.

Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits on Netflix is great

"In this history-steeped reality series, 14 contestants undergo the same rigorous selection process as Britain's top-secret World War II spies."

And speaking of spies:

As well as Baron Robert Baden-Powell’s use of entomological sketches to hide his spying activities, embedding floor plans and sketches of enemy forts inside the bodies of insects. pic.twitter.com/fKzYkcsvJY

— Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) July 22, 2018

And Then There Were (N-One) by Sarah Pinsker

This is a really good whodunit.

Utopia, LOL

A good short story by Jamie Wahls.

Data Wing for iOS is great, and truly free

My current favorite mobile game.

The Battle of Polytopia for iOS is great

A genuinely free Civilization-style game.

Another fun free game is Ghost Pop.  Ad supported, but I paid the $1.99 unlock.

Rogue Protocol, the third Murderbot novella by Martha Wells, is terrific

Can't recommend this series enough. The third novella comes out in August.

"Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery review: a shameless shake-down"

"Without the Harry Potter trappings the game would have nothing to recommend it."

On the other hand, Oddmar is really good.

Never Stop Sneakin' iOS is really good

$2.99.

Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries is really good

All Systems Red by Martha Wells is great--after reading an advanced copy, I bought another copy for myself. The sequel, Artificial Condition, is also terrific. Highly recommended.

iOS soccer game Score! Match is fun

Better than EA's iOS soccer game.

The excellent game Meteorfall is now available on ios

$2.99.

Fantasy Sports 3 by Sam Bosma is really good

Golf, wrestling, and swords and sorcery. 32% off at Amazon.

(Looks like Sam's outstanding The Hanging Tower is a free download.)

The novel Uprooted is great

Nebula winner for best novel. It's terrific.

Dave Hutchinson's Acadie is very good

Acadie sort of answers the question, What did the bureaucrats on Hoth do when Han blew up the probe droid and they realized the Empire was on the way? And then, like Hutchinson's Europe in Autumn, Acadie takes a very unexpected turn.

It's great, and available in September.

The Murders of Molly Southbourne is terrific

It's too bad that Tade Thompson's new novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne won't be released until October, because it was a perfect appetizer for Twin Peaks--an idyllic small town upbringing, surreal horror, sex that's sweet and sickening (sometimes at the same time), and doppelgangers. I highly recommend adding it to your wishlist to enjoy next Halloween.

(By the way, All Systems Red, a light-hearted scifi thriller I recommended a few months ago, is now available.)