It's a shame, because the 2D gameplay does provide a nice counterpart to the complexity that Grand Theft Auto introduced, the visual style is still rather unique and surprisingly colorful. At times, the appeal of the game shines through. But when the package still feels this rough, why settle for anything less than the real thing?

This racing game sure looks great, but its lack of substance and free-to-play mechanics make it a bit of a drag.

It's not so much that Arcane Battlegrounds is a bad freemium base building game, it's just that it's one that's been done before. A lot.

The CATch! is a fun high-score based title that fails to innovate on an already tired genre. While not a bad game, per se; to most, this is hard to recommend to anyone other than someone desperate for a game similar to Temple Run.

There’s so much going on in This is the Police 2, and it’s hard to understand or enjoy any of it.

I love the concept behind this game, and while the graphics are a bit basic, they work well. The sound, however, is almost non-existent. No background music, at all, and just a few noises made by the vehicles/teams. And yet, these problems pale in comparison to the control issues.

Infinite Jets tries to take the magic of Infinite Tanks to the skies, but fails to reach new heights.

Last Knight is a fantastic looking game, and could potentially be a bunch of fun if it weren't so unmercifully frustrating. It definitely doesn't need more options, but the ones that are already present need some serious tightening before I'd consider this game to be anything more than a showpiece.

This shoot 'em up is devilishly hard.

A game that involves saving people rather than killing is great to see. However, EMERGENCY feels, ironically, too safe and fails to capture the threat that could have made it an exciting game.

Age of Sparta is a typical freemium strategy game, but one that's slightly above the rest.

Despite a fun start, Dragon City Mobile turns a little too slow for even the most enthusiastic of freemium city building fans.

While the iPhone 4 optimization will hopefully be fixed in the next update or two, I still get the sense that the game is missing something. I want to play a 3D marble game for that sense of open air freedom, and I just don't feel that here.

It might be quicker on its feet than Messi, but Tiny Cup can't keep up the pace for long.

Swipe Casters is essentially cool mechanic buried inside a pretty middling arcade game. Drawing spells to cast down enemies is a really neat idea on paper, but when it's reduced to simply tracing patterns given to you as quickly as possible, it's not exactly a great time. In fact, it's pretty disappointing.

This digital adaptation of Everdell feels more like a clunky tool for playing a board game you’re already familiar with than a welcoming experience.

Beast Brawlers maps Clash Royale’s progression system onto a less interesting, less polished experience.

Solid animations and smooth game mechanics clash against an overcrowded user interface and poor presentation in this Japanese alternative to normal golf.

Tengami is ridiculously beautiful, but its gorgeous looks only go so far.

Fold pieces of paper to create platforms for a princely rabbit in this puzzle game; something that isn't as beguiling as you'd think.

It's a nice idea, but LEGO Star Wars: Microfighters turns too repetitive too quickly.

With some fine-tuning, Mighty Beanz could become a pretty fun game. Even with the "z." But until then, it's not worth it.

Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores is rife with plenty of prehistoric game to hunt, but when they don't always fight back it becomes just a bit of a weird hunting trip.

With no real sense of progression and a quite steep and unfair difficulty curve (no one likes to be killed by a zombie that they couldn't even see due to the isometric nature of the level), Zombie Rollers is far from one of Chillingo's best entries to the App Store.

It's hard to firmly recommend Girl with a Heart of on iOS due to its clunky interface, slow pacing and the somewhat unrealized execution of a potentially intriguing premise. On the other hand, it does try to do something different than we're used to, which is commendable.

Well made yet shallow, Atomic Fusion: Particle Collider is a simple to learn arcade-style game about science.

Deceptively simple gameplay and relatively minimal visuals hide a smart game of skill in Damn Little Town.

Although the game suffers from a variety of faults, the simple RPG components allow the player to replay the game in different ways with a unique experience each playthrough.