This piece contains spoilers for Alto's Odyssey: The Lost City
Smartphone games can offer magical moments. I will never forget walking into Brighton's Jubilee Library and firing up God of Blades to unlock the special library-themed sword in that book-obsessed classic. And I don't think I'll forget yesterday, the sun blazing outside while I stayed in, curtains drawn, and hunted down pieces of map in Alto's Odyssey: The Lost City.
The Lost City is a revamped version of the endless sand-surfer from Land & Sea and Snowman. It's a special edition that has just landed on Apple Arcade, and I pretty much lost the weekend to it. The Lost City itself is a new landscape for you to race through, beautiful houses and distant caverns, and you find it not by surfing as far as you can, but by collecting those pieces of map, ten of them, scattered over the world.
