The Bug Butcher is a super fun and refreshing 2-D shooter. It provides a great amount of variety and challenge which somehow makes playing new levels and replaying old ones equally exciting. If you want to feel great about killing bugs, definitely play The Bug Butcher.

Despite not really feeling like an Evil Dead game, Endless Nighmare is a sufficiently creepy runner with a good set of hooks to keep driving you forward in it. That said, its perspective makes it pretty hard to play, which is a huge problem for a video game to have.

Zombie Anarchy does just about everything it can to make it hard to enjoy. While the base-building in it is decent, the sheer amount of timers, collectibles, and other gating mechanics makes it feel like it was designed to turn you into a zombie.

Pinball can be a really neat thing, especially when it looks and feels great. Unfortunately, this game only nails its look.

This transit-based puzzle game is a zen-like experience with a minimal aesthetic.

Plants vs. Zombies takes on Hearthstone in a way that is endearing and surprisingly fun.

This free-to-play shooter looks nice and has a reasonable monetization scheme, but is otherwise kind of lacking.

In the tradition of mobile games named like Crossy Road, Twisty Board is an endless arcade game with voxel graphics where you ride a hoverboard.

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

Klei's excellent tactical espionage game snuck onto mobile without being too compromised.

Shuffle Cats is a really good multiplayer rummy game that shows promise of getting better over time. It appears as though updates will come to the game providing more single-player content, and the connection issues should only get better from here. It may not be the deepest multiplayer card game out there, but it's dang fun and looks really nice.

This arcade racer is an astounding spectacle of speed, adrenaline, and some confusing free-to-play design.

Dog Sled Saga is a really solid management game that will charm you if you have any affinity for dogs. The races might feel like they get a little too easy once you figure them out, but the loop of continuously upgrading stays satisfying throughout.

Banner Saga 2 is one of the finest combinations of character, gameplay, and narrative that you can find. It's a game that spends as much time on being a fun and varied strategy game as it does on making you care about its world and the reasons why its characters are in the situation they are in. It's really hard to ask much more than that.

Infinite Tanks is a great, though less serious, take on the tank battling genre. It's sheer amount of content and options make it well worth the asking price.

Burly Men at Sea is a totally beautiful but flawed game. Although it starts with a bang and has a beautiful moment of discovery in it, you'll find that there's little to look forward to soon after you've started it.

Treasure Buster is a fantastic little game with loads of heart. It takes a great combat mechanic and loads it into an arcade experience that is deeper than it appears. If you've got a buck, there's no good reason why you shouldn't pick Treasure Buster up.

Primordia is a very good, old-school adventure game from a developer that specializes in very good, old-school adventure games. It's expected, sure, but not at all disappointing. If the setting and premise of Primordia stick out to you, I'd recommend picking it up.

I really wanted to like Vulture Island, especially since it was made by Donut Games, makers of the excellent Traps n' Gemstones. That, and the game wears a lot really great inspirational touchstones on its sleeve. Unfortunately though, I spent the majority of my time with the game dying repeatedly or looking at a walkthrough and rolling my eyes at puzzle solutions, which was not particularly fun or satisfying.

SKYHILL may not be the most complicated roguelike out there, but it more than makes up for that with its neat crafting system and pick-up-and-play design sensibility.

Heroes of Normandie is probably my favorite game that Slitherine has put out to date. It's not perfect, but that's part of what makes it interesting. If you don't mind putting up with some weird text, spotty multiplayer, and dense UI explanations buried in a wiki, you will find a deeply satisfying and weird strategy game here.

If you're looking for a roguelike with a bunch of charm, Atomic Super Lander's got your back. It's not perfect, but its problems are easy to look past thanks to its charming execution on a fun concept.

Submerged is a pretty disappointing game. It creates a wonderful sense of mystery and atmosphere, and squanders it at every turn. The controls aren't great, the story alternates between being predictable and inscrutable, and the gameplay is almost completely comprised of mundane, Assassin's Creed-style climbing. While beautiful, Submerged is just not what it appears to be on the surface.

Road Not Taken is chock full of cool and clever puzzle ideas that make playing it feel overly complicated and needlessly cruel. Even if you were up for the challenge though, there are some significant technical issues that keep the game from being enjoyable. It's a shame, really.

Gordon Ramsay DASH offers some pretty fun puzzling and fan service, though it is marred a bit by its free-to-play structure. If you're at all a fan of Gordon Ramsay, this game is definitely worth checking out, though how long you'll stick with it is questionable.

ENYO is pretty great fun, but doesn't quite hit the high bar that Tinytouchtalesset for themselves with Card Crawl. It's still worth playing if you enjoy roguelikes, but otherwise it may not hold your attention for long.

Regardless of whether you have any nostalgia for previous Lumines titles, Puzzle & Music is probably worth getting. Despite some lack of features and some slight control issues Lumines: Puzzle & Music is a great version of a great game.

If you like arcade racing games, you definitely need to play Riptide GP: Renegade. It's extremely impressive on basically all fronts. Even its file size is astoundingly modest (107 MB). Whether you're looking to race your friends or just enjoy some single-player racing, Renegade provides some of the best racing on mobile to date.