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[Update] The PG Readers' iOS and Android Game of the Week - your vote needed

Pirates? Diseases? Trains? (And the winner is...)

[Update] The PG Readers' iOS and Android Game of the Week - your vote needed
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Updated on October 7th, at 12:05: The votes have been fed through our state-of-the-art number crunching machine, the Calculatrate X475, and double-checked by an army of hyper-intelligent docile spiders.

And this week's winner is... Level 22.

This game is a stealth-'em-up with a twist. Instead of your infiltrating a military base, you play as a man with a hangover trying to sneak into work without any of his colleagues noticing he's late.

As well as sneaking past your workmates, you can poison their coffee, headbutt them, and execute all manner of other sneaky skills to get to your desk on level 22 before anyone realises what a good-for-nothing shirker you are.

Things start off pretty light, and there are cheeky nods to some other stealth games here, including a cardboard box into which you can clamber. But as you work your way through the building, you'll find out some pretty grim secrets about the company for whom you work.

Level 22 is available on the App Store for £2.49 / $3.99 [buy] and on the Google Play Store for the same price [buy].

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Every week, thousands of new games hit the iOS App Store and Google Play on Android. Trying to find the diamonds in the rough is no easy task, let us assure you.

We like to think we do a pretty good job with our news articles, mid-week round-ups, expert reviews, and comprehensive features, mind.

But, now we want to know what YOU think.

Today, we're going to ask you to pick the best game that was released on iOS and Android from the past week (from the nominations below), and then we'll announce the winner in a glamorous article next Monday.

There are loads of places to vote. Leave a comment at the bottom of this article; answer the poll on Facebook; or genetically engineer a terrifying new hybrid of dog and whale, and encode your answer into the beast's DNA.

The nominations
Transport Tycoon (Android, iPad, iPhone) A massively complex transport management simulator in which you could lose years of your life.
Pandemic: The Board Game (iPad) Digital version of the best-selling boardgame. Try to control a global outbreak of some awful diseases. Go on - try.
Level 22 (Android, iPad, iPhone) Stealth game in which you attempt to sneak into work late... with a hangover... without any of your colleagues noticing.
Gunner Z (iPad, iPhone) Free-to-play on-rails zombie blaster. Drive a tooled-up jeep into the middle of Armageddon and shoot everything that moves.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run (Android; previously on iPad, iPhone) Auto-runner starring everyone's favourite over-sized turtles. Run, jump, and then fight your way through cartoon bad guys.
Dead Man's Draw (iPad, iPhone) Pirate-themed card game that's all about pushing your luck in order to win huge piles of shiny gold.
Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.