The best Spider-Man game ever made… but only just, since it fails to move the superhero video game genre forward in any important way.

A clever mix of puzzle, stealth, and action that manages to avoid most frustrations thanks to a constant stream of new ideas and a knowing sense of humour.

If you accept its purposeful limitations this is one of the few successful attempts to ensure creating your own games is as much fun as playing them.

Another quietly competent downloadable compilation, with five new competitive maps that show Call Of Duty at its close quarters best.

A solid if predictable start to the new season, but still one of Telltale's better graphic adventures.

Probably the best Final Fantasy game on mobile and a good example of how to play fair with both nostalgia and free-to-play microtransactions.

Much like the film, this is more a testament to what worked before than a genuinely new experience, but it makes the best of its voice cast and an obvious love for Star Wars.

The best portable real-time strategy game ever made - even if most of the credit belongs to Blizzard not Gameloft.

A very different kind of survival horror, that despite a few flaws is both scarier and more thematically interesting than most of its contemporaries.

An even better Dark Souls clone than Lords Of The Fallen, but there are too few unique ideas and the difficulty often undermines the rest of the gameplay.

One of the best SimCity clones on consoles, whose streamlined gameplay is accessible if not necessarily very original.

A heartwarming adventure about growing up, packed full of imagination and 90s snark, but its main strength is the way in which it manages to expertly capture what it feels like to be a young, bored teen on the verge of adulthood.

A solid start to Black Ops III’s DLC schedule, with two standout maps and only one actively bad one.

Not the greatest, or best value for money, version of the game but a surprisingly decent port that still has all the same undead charm.

A peculiar but well-conceived concept that brings together multiple disparate gameplay elements, to create a highly customisable, but occasionally somewhat shallow, vampire sim.

A raucous VR splatterfest that captures Deadpool’s brand of sardonic humour and gratuitous violence perfectly, with sky high production values largely making up for the overly simple combat.

It would've been overlooked as a retail release, but as a download this unique puzzler is a real bargain.

A story about loneliness and grief, set in a retro-futuristic 1970s and told from the perspective of a deepsea diver, which is less interested in action than creating the right atmosphere.

There are too few surprises when it comes to the story and Daud is a disappointingly blunt instrument, but a return to Dunwall is welcome no matter who’s conducting the tour.

One of the best survival horrors of recent years, that functions almost as well as the Wii U version. creating a mature-rated adventure that is as ruthlessly difficult as it is engrossing.

Another incremental improvement that adds some welcome new features but fails to fix old ones.

A welcome reboot of a great rhythm action game, although the lack of new ideas and disappointing soundtrack leaves things a little off kilter.

The best console version yet of the PC hit - and accessible enough to suit even real-time strategy haters.

Never quite as good as the smart writing and clever ideas seem to promise, but still a thoroughly entertaining parody of the best of 2D Zelda.

The combat might never feel as clever as the visuals and narration but this is still an engrossing and distinctive action role-player.

Treat it as an HD remaster of the N64 game and this is actually one of the best Mario Tennis games since then, but the lack of features and extra content is a real turn-off.

An unfairly neglected part of the Doom canon is given the remaster it most certainly deserves, in what is one of the most welcome retro remasters of recent years.

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