There is nothing funny about making something bad on purpose and asking people to play it.

This adventure game may take a moment to distinguish itself, but once it does it is a nice and affecting tale. [Provisional Score = 80]

You shouldn’t play Bloodshore until it gets patched. Even if you do, it’s a somewhat middling experience that buries its most fascinating bits along its margins.

This roguelite feels tuned for distracted play, which makes it feel pretty flat.

Serial Cleaner is a flat stealth action experience with few redeeming qualities.

Aside from some nice art, there’s not a whole lot to enjoy about Very Little Nightmares. From top to bottom, the game feels poorly conceived. It doesn’t work as a horror tone-piece, a puzzle game, or a mobile experience, which is a pretty big problem if you’re trying to make a horror-themed puzzle game on mobile.

Tap! Captain Star is a foul combination. It’s equal parts mind-numbing clicker and super-aggressive ad machine. I can’t think of a single good reason for anyone to play it.

This dungeon crawler offers an interesting change of pace, but suffers from too many technical issues.

Aside from the mildly interesting conceit, Ammo Pigs doesn’t have a lot going for it. It feels old and thin, and does very little to make what is there feel interesting or nostalgic. There are droves of better 2D action platformers on the App Store, most of which will leave more of an impression on you than Ammo Pigs will.

Disney Heroes is a bad cash-in game that fails to demonstrate the creativity or charm of Disney movies.

Aside from a neat idea and some nice visuals, BOMBARIKA is a complete mess. Both technically and creatively, the game feels half-baked. All the while, the game is trying to hit you up to give it more money. On pretty much all fronts, there’s not much to enjoy about BOMBARIKA.

Top to bottom, Dungeon Hunter Champions is a mess. It has tons of ideas going on, and some of them actually have some potential to make for a great experience, but Gameloft seems to use them exclusively to exploit players' loot lust in an effort to squeeze money out of them. What little there is to appreciate here is better found elsewhere, so don’t even bother checking this game out, even though it looks nice.

From top to bottom, Warhammer Quest 2 is a disappointing game. Its combat feels old, its systems unremarkable, its visuals stilted, and its performance unstable. On top of this, the whole game plays extremely slowly, which just adds to the suffering of playing through it. Don’t bother with it.

There's a lot going on in this strategy game, which makes it both confusing and unstable.

Age of Solitaire is a really hard game to recommend. It's a pretty game, but it's otherwise a version of Solitaire that is muddied with ads, consumable in-app purchases, and a relatively lifeless civilzation-building visual layer.

Valerian: City of Alpha's attempts to deliver stories from Valerian's universe are undercut by its gameplay, and its gameplay is clunky and slow.

There isn't really much to like about Dark Universe Stories. It's a game of dialogue, story, and puzzles, and all three are underwhelming. Considering the quality of Night School Studio's past work, I was hoping they could make a cool licensed game, but they fail to deliver even when trying to play to their strengths.

Skullgirls is a flashy-looking game that is pretty miserable to actually play. It's combat feels a little too simple, and your success seems determined more by lucky Relic rewards than skill. Add to this the fact that this is a fighting game with no multiplayer component, and there's very little reason to actually pick Skullgirls up.

There's really nothing redeeming about Gangstar New Orleans. It's a bad GTA game with no personality, terrible free-to-play mechanics, representation issues, and a boatload of bugs. Just don't bother with this game at all. There's no reason to.

This old-school dungeon-crawler is a little too rough around the edges and leaves out a few too many modern conveniences.

Fieldrunners Attack! is a game that is ostensibly about strategic base management and combat, but it fails to deliver on both fronts. Moreover, it doesn't make particularly good use of anything that made Fieldrunners appealing in the first place. Across the board, Fieldrunners Attack! is a very disappointing game.

Tie-in mobile games can be great, but this one is conceptually flawed and otherwise pretty rough around the edges.

James Bond: World of Espionage is a more exciting title than the game deserves.

Timecrest is a neat idea for a story that gradually unfolds, but it's too slow.

Downton Abbey: Mysteries of the Manor is a poor example of the hidden object genre.

Rambo - The Mobile Game is the licensed game that no one ever really asked for.

Age of Empires: Castle Siege isn't the Age of Empires game you were hoping for.

Astro Boy Flight is a very unremarkable endless 2d shooter that really does feel never-ending.

Incandescence promises intense tapping action, but isn't particularly fun.

Ever wanted to tap on a screen and assume you've killed a monster or two? Probably not, but just in case here's Sword King.

Assassin's Creed Memories is hardly a game at all, and shamefully wastes the chance to do something cool with its source material.

It's inoffensive enough, but that's the problem for LEGO Star Wars The New Yoda Chronicles. It's actually quite a dull variety of inoffensive.

Hero Tap: The Finger of Justice - a game in which putting together a team of superheroes to fight master criminals becomes an exercise in tedium.

There's not a lot to Club Penguin Sled Racer, and that's a pretty hefty problem.

Tank Titans HD feels less like a game and more like an incomplete proof-of-concept, without much to recommend it.

Sticky Soccer puts too much emphasis on the ‘sticky’ and not enough on the ‘Soccer’ or ‘Fun’.

Remember Snake? Remember Pac-Man? Remember how fun those games can be? Grub wants you to remember too, but it comes up short.

Orcs. You know them. You love (to kill) them. But it's hard to get excited about playing as them in this uninspired RTS.

Fate of Nations tries to offer a free-to-play 4x experience, but just delivers a big muddy heap instead.

It's a shame that Crafting Story's colorful, stylized polygonal worlds look so nice, because the gameplay of this pseudo-educational title is anything but.

Quest for loot in this dungeon crawler that is almost completely void of actual, compelling gameplay.

The RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise finally comes to iOS, but it's a rather disappointing affair.

The Twelve Labors of Hercules were not as taxing as the Sisyphean effort required to struggle through this Korean import's poor translation.

The jokes aren't the most offensive thing about this freemium city building game based around the Family Guy series.

Tap button after button to level up and feel detached from one's avatar in this soulless RPG.

Geek Resort is a tycoon-style park creation title with an overall fun art-style; it's simply let down on its reliance of in-app purchases to drive its gameplay, and a few obvious bugs.

The storyline is excellent, and the voice-acting spot-on, but Tales of Phantasia is unbelievably let down by its free-to-play model and terrible controls.

Mixing together beloved Disney characters and Temple Run-style gameplay really isn't as successful as it sounds.

NFL Runner: Football Dash is a fairly unexciting endless runner that serves little purpose.

Another uninspired movie tie-in to add to the pile, Mortal Instruments is as soulless as the monsters that players are forced to hunt. Even fans will have a hard time enjoying this one.

A fairly unrestricted free to play game, Call of Mini: Infinity flounders by being just not very interesting at all.

Showstopper Basketball combines CCG and hardwood action into an interesting yet novice take on the classic sport.

Rivals at War has a very interesting concept, but its actual game is a boring interaction-free card game.

I didn't think Gameloft could do a worse job with free-to-play than they did with Let's Golf 3, but they sure did! Now please Gameloft, just stop. This is embarrassing.

There's a fascinating storyline underneath the poor gameplay.

The idea of an MMO strategy game for a mobile platform is fantastic; it's just a shame the execution falls short of the game's potential.

There's a fantastic license within but Scarface is really very disappointing and gangster fans won't be impressed at all.

This game is a slap in the face to Simpson fans everywhere, and doesn't deserve in the smallest amount of support.

If looked at from a distance NBA 2K12 seems like a competent vehicle for playing basketball on the go. Sadly, upon closer inspection, the luster of an incomplete development cycle and poor overall execution of the sport's fundamental gameplay make it nearly impossible to recommend.

if Let's Golf 3 doesn't want me to play it, why should I?

While Smurfs' Village has been in the App Store for a while now, it's getting a second life with the Smurfs movie coming out soon. Unfortunately the Smurfs deliver very little gameplay by limiting the amount of paly time in the game actively doing anything other than looking at Smurfs wander the forest.

There is a really good game here to be played, and I hope they develop more "user friendly" controls.