Pokémon Go snubbed: Apple chooses Clash Royale as its iPhone Game of the Year

Pokémon Go wasn’t the best game of the year on iPhone. At least that’s what Apple is saying.

The iOS company revealed the results of its official Game of the Year awards for iPhone, iPad, and more. The iPhone Game of the Year, which is arguably the biggest category, went to developer Supercell’s Clash Royale head-to-head strategy battler. That app has players facing off against one another by dropping cards from their deck onto a battlefield. That cards then turn into units with various capabilities. It’s a free download, but you can of course spend cash to improve your deck, so you can face even better players with better cards (which makes you want to spend more money on cards to improve your deck). It’s a vicious cycle, and it’s the best game that came out for iPhone in 2016, according to Apple. That means it beat out Niantic’s Pokémon Go. That location-based Google Maps-powered game that has players catching digital pocket monsters in the real world was the only mobile game to outgross Clash Royale on iPhone.