It's a perfectly competent strategy role-player, but one lacking any real personality or imagination.

Each level has a strictly limited number of squares in which to undertake your merging antics, deploying a small supply of tactical powers – swap two squares, delete a tile – to correct mistakes or reverse bad luck. You get a small number of moves per day for free, but you can watch an ad to earn more or pay to unlock the full game and all its maps, in this neat little puzzler.

A less than impressive remaster, that still isn’t up to par with the PC version, but there’s a lot of content here and the bank-robbing co-op remains a fun novelty.

Superior, but still badly flawed, portable real-time strategy that lacks both depth and variety.

An always welcome celebration of one of the 16-bit era’s most innovative and cinematic arcade adventures, even if its gameplay irritations are even more obvious in today’s world.

Not as daring as you'd hope in terms of gameplay or humour, but this Diablo parody has its moments.

A competent Overwatch clone but one so apparently allergic to new ideas it’s depressing to see it so thoroughly waste its technical triumphs and well-designed characters.

Fast, fun and a little bit silly, Squid Game’s battle royale works surprisingly well on mobile, but it lacks the depth to provide any long term interest.

The action can feel repetitive and the usual gacha caveats apply, but the flanking manoeuvres and judicious use of special abilities make for a game where tactics do at least play a part.

An improvement over the Wii version, but this still seems like the bare minimum that could be done with a Michael Jackson music game.

Although the central conceit of continual binary choices sits well on mobile, it eventually proves a shade too simplistic, making your ongoing adventures feel repetitive and as though you’re too much at the mercy of RNG-esus.

An overall improvement on the original but the lack of focus encourages too many unwanted features, that dilute an otherwise interesting portrayal of law enforcement.

Konami play Frankenstein with another old series, but even though the seams are showing the game's still fun.

A near perfect update to what remains a game with far more style than substance, nice new graphics or not.

A poor man's Panzer Dragoon is still a relatively rich meal for anyone, even if this has little real connection to the original.

At its best it’s like being in control of a pixellated Final Destination, the deaths coming thick and fast with amusingly inventive variety. At its worst it’s a fiddly load of trial and error, where you can still be tripped up by pesky police angels even once you’ve figured out what to do.

It's a shameless copy of Diablo, but this action role player still has some personality of its own.

A strange set of priorities and a peculiarly high price make Nintendo’s big DLC experiment a hard sell for all but the most committed platform fans.

It’s good looking, and you’re not forced to watch as many ads as you are in Archero, but on the minus side it’s also not nearly as much fun.

For a Japanese role-player this is a fun, accessible romp, but it stops short of reinventing its ways out of any of the genre's more long-standing issues.

Better than My Life As A King but the bad guys still aren't having that much fun with their tower defence.

The fact that it’s free-to-play is almost the only point of interest in this derivative shooter – and even that is far less appealing once you get into the details.

What could have been a competent third person take on Metroid Prime is brought low by needless technical and design mistakes.

Ratchet & Clank's less talented cousins show just how unimportant technical competence is when a game has no heart or ambition.

A Monster Hunter clone that does some things differently but doesn’t manage to improve on element of it is far more entertaining inspiration.

The faults are a shame because the basic gameplay works perfectly well and if the technical issues can be ironed out, and the musical horizons broadened, a follow-up could be the real evolution needed.

Despite its good looks and offbeat content, the process of winning rapidly becomes too fiddly to be much fun.

A competent clone of Zelda and a pretty poor adaptation of Adventure Time, this amiable but frustrating tie-in doesn’t really satisfy on either level.