One of the best smartphone games of last year gets the multiplayer mode it's always needed, in this superb mix of Risk and Scrabble.

A welcome return to MonkeyIsland and a promising first episode to a new season of graphic adventuring.

Another highly competent Yoshi platformer that looks great and plays well, especially in co-op, but there’s a disappointing lack of innovation beyond the charming visuals.

Its challenge and ingenuity never falter in a game that channels the essence of Shovel Knight into a fresh format.

A remaster too far for a game that, through no fault of its own, is showing its age and is further encouraging the franchise’s reliance on nostalgia instead of innovation.

Easily the best Transformers game ever, but also a tantalising glimpse of how to transform current action games into something more inventive and imaginative.

A Pokémon fighting game may not seem like the most obvious spin-off idea, but the end result is a surprisingly fun and inventive multiplayer game.

A great showcase for the PS Vita and at times as good as WipEout has ever been, despite a few questionable options and graphical issues.

A perfect example of the sort of game only the PSP can provide and a surprisingly progressive Japanese role-player to boot.

If you want to waste a minute or two, wasting hundreds of zombies, then this is one download that will do exactly what it says on the tin.

Some very minor improvements to the Dynasty Warriors formula but this is just as vapid and repetitive as it was back in the PlayStation 2 era, only now with relatively modern graphics.

A wasted opportunity to create a modern take on System Shock, with the dull storytelling and action overshadowing the otherwise effective puzzle elements.

An interesting halfway house between demo and full game, whose brevity may even save it from some of the criticisms of the main release.

One of the more successful interactive movies of recent years, but that’s really not saying much given the lack of gameplay and horror thrills.

It's Tekken with better graphics, again. And yet it's still hard to dislike a fighter this good.

It’s been a long time coming but the magic of Pokémon Snap has been effectively recreated in a game that’s more challenging and engrossing than its peaceable premise suggests.

A clever and quietly innovative puzzlers, whose only flaw is too much of a good thing.

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

LittleBigPlanet is once again its own worst enemy, as it fails to make the best use of its own fun new characters. Although the creation tools are the most accessible they’ve ever been.

An impressively well balanced shooter that manages to deliver a diverse and innovative feature set that should please almost everyone.

One of the best action role-players on any portable - if it wasn't for the appallingly banal plot and characters.

Not a very satisfying or enjoyable video game to play, but still a fascinating one to experience – with some beautifully stark imagery and ideas.

Despite an unhealthy amount of fan service this is an innovative, if inaccessible, one-on-one fighter.

The perfect introduction to ‘proper’ Pokémon games for GO players but also an enjoyably nostalgic remake for existing pokéfans.

An excellent console port of a deep, impressively addictive, and very amusing, sandbox megalomaniac simulator.

A scary, atmospheric, and cleverly designed survival horror, whose photorealistic visuals and superb sound design help overcome some occasional frustrations.

An impressively ambitious survival horror that moves beyond the realm of mere VR tech demo and, despite some technical limitations, is a hugely engrossing game in its own right.

A hugely entertaining 3D platformer that channels the imagination and unpredictability of older games without becoming a prisoner to the past.