The end product is still several features short of classic status but it's not as dry as January's "Lonpos" and yet just as addictive a time-waster.

The price prevents any serious criticism but this is still one of the best-looking and most accessible Tower Defence games around.

Another failed attempt to get a traditional first person shooter working in VR, although the online co-op option keeps the novelty going for longer than it should.

While it’s perfectly playable as a freebie, its monetisation is aggressive, from the recharging energy required to play levels, to repeated entreaties to buy upgrade packs, even if underneath all the sales effort its gameplay remains mildly diverting, and its artwork sublime.

It’s still going to be a long hard struggle to turn Dynasty Warriors into a top quality action game, but this is the first sequel in a long time to feel like it’s actually trying.

The controls are superior to Overlord II, but the gameplay and difficulty is even more simplified.

One of the best Kinect games so far and also one of the most successful Pixar tie-ins. Kids will love it and it'd take a seriously cynical adult not to feel the same way.

The best Bubble Bobble game in over two decades and while it isn’t quite as perfectly formed as the original it is one of the best couch co-op games of the year.

A bizarre mix of influences and a great script still can't save this inventive but flawed role-player.

Watching paint dry really can be entertaining, in this relentlessly cheerful mix of platformer and interactive colouring book.

A solid online shooter ruined by thoughtless corporate greed, whose malign practises could damage the whole of gaming if they are not kept in check.

In six months’ time it may well make its mark, but for now Battleborn’s mix of genres suffers from too little content and too much repetition.

You’re Rock Gunar, sole survivor of your unit and last bulwark against the extraterrestrial onslaught in this Aliens sentry-gun simulator. Illuminated by the flickering muzzle flash of your gun and the explosions generated by grenades, Molotov cocktails, and one highly combustible species of alien, your job is to aim high or low to take out herds of xenomorphs advancing along the floor, walls, and ceiling. It’s all a little bit mindless, but the upgrade path has a satisfying grind to it, and the chiptunes and faux 16-bit pixel art style are a winning combination.

There are some innovative ideas here but poor balancing, restrictive matchmaking and too little content overwhelm the positives.

An impressively silly mishmash of game styles and historical references that still manages to entertain despite its lack of depth and variety.

FromSoftware’s first VR game is full of interesting ideas but very little entertainment, with frustrating storytelling and tiresome puzzles.

As shameless a clone of Geometry Wars as you could ever hope to see. But fairly good fun all the same.

Its B-movie charm is beginning to sag and this revamp of the Xbox 360 hit fails to make the most of its enhancements – or charge an appropriate price for them.

Even committed fans are likely to be disappointed by this lazy and largely unnecessary rehash.

Some of the best 2D artwork ever seen in a video game, married to a spitefully difficult game whose main gameplay gimmick only manages to make it more frustrating to play.

Extreme video game nostalgia enters the world of VR but the novelty can’t excuse the sub-par gameplay and repetitive humour.

It perfectly fulfils its brief of being a new Banjo-Kazooie game in all but name, but Yooka-Laylee’s reliance on nostalgia may struggle to find new fans.

A surprisingly high quality tie-in, which for once acts as a good introduction to gaming for youngsters.

It looks amazing but baffling design decisions suck every ounce of fun out of this disappointing sequel.

As unique a vision as video gaming has ever seen and one able to use even its many incompetencies to entertain and surprise.

The original 3DS game is sacrificed on the altar of microtransactions and grubby monetisation, almost erasing any sense of fun in the process.

There are spikes to avoid, water-filled areas that make your eyeball buoyant, enemies with shields and others that intermittently catch fire, falling rocks, sticky web-firing spiders, mid-level bosses, actual bosses, and lots more to spice up this highly unusual ocular adventure.

Impressively well produced and extremely playable, but there are few changes from last year and the microtransactions are still obnoxious.