Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 is super accessible and very easy to get into, but deceptively difficult to master.

The Smurfs: Dreams is a Smurftacular 3D platformer, with tight controls, a lovely soundtrack, and so much variety in its levels.

Tales of Graces f Remastered may not have the most exciting story or characters, but its sensational combat makes it worth revisiting.

Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown offers a robust fighting system that runs silky smooth, with plenty of variety in fighters and move-sets.

Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition brings possibly the best PS1 JRPG to Europe for the first time, and it simply must be played.

Tchia is a beautifully crafted game that celebrates tradition and culture, while offering varied gameplay and opportunity for exploration.

If you can get past all the posturing and over-the-top woo-hooing, Riders Republic is a very good extreme sports game.

Empire of the Ants is a true celebration of our natural world that just happens to be disguised as a real time strategy game.

Transformers Devastation is a fantastic love letter to G1 Transformers fans, and a great game in its own right.

With such a fun story, great gameplay, and the ability to enjoy with a friend or relative, you’re never short of having a good time.

I'm still a big fan of what L.A. Noire tries to do, and with the improvements to interrogations and visuals, it's certainly worth giving it a go.

Despite some minor frustrations Battlefleet: Gothic Armada is a fun RTS that isn’t too unwelcoming to people new to the genre.

Knowing that I can always jump in and experience one of my favourite video game fantasy worlds, and through an inhabitant's eyes, feels like a huge comfort.

Bore Blasters is a fun little time-waster, but it's not an experience you'll remember after you've moved on.

Most impressively, perhaps, Harmonix have implemented Kinect with confidence and skill, so that it never feels like a chore or a gimmick, instead it is the perfect control method for conducting and crafting magical melodies.

FixFox respects your time, offering a wholesome adventure filled with puzzles, quirky characters, and a laid back journey through space.

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition is a belter of a puzzle game, with a lengthy campaign full of clever ideas.

Infinite Warfare provides a huge package with a lot of fun gameplay throughout. There's something here for everyone, and enough to keep us all playing for another year.

Lego Minifigures Online may want to build a fanbase, but those IAPs are as painful as stepping on a LEGO brick.

Redacted may borrow heavily from Hades, but it has enough of its own personality to stand out in an increasingly crowded genre.

More than anything, Firaxis appear to be testing the waters with XCOM: Chimera Squad, and as a field test it's mostly successful. However, it ditches far too much of what makes XCOM so fantastic in the first place.

What Ails you is a superb fourth episode, and gives us plenty of great set pieces and character progression as the series reaches its climax.

While Mosaic is a good game, it’s hard to describe it as enjoyable due to its subject matter. It has the possibility to hit a bit too close home for some, but the overall message once you hit the end might be worth it. It is by no means a bad game, just very heavy handed when it comes to its subject matter.

Bonfire Peaks has you burning memories in a tricky puzzler that has real heart and soul at its molten core.

Wilmot Works It Out is a wonderful example of cosy gaming done right, with colourful puzzles to solve and a whole lot of charm to boot.

The horror in this cyberpunk nightmare provides plenty of shocks, and the story is engaging, especially with Rutger Hauer at the helm.

A solid sharpshooting experience that knows where its strength lie. The open ended nature of each level, as well as the myriad ways to despatch enemies makes each level interesting, but it is the X-Ray kills that remain the centrepiece of this particular franchise.

The Sexy Brutale is a lavishly stylish, unique and engrossing murder mystery game in which, on a day that always restarts, you must prevent the staff of a grand mansion from murdering the several guests and solve the intriguing mystery.