There's disappointingly little to get your teeth into in this only briefly entertaining consumable.

Somehow this manages to be the best superhero team-up game of the year, even though its management style is fairly simplistic.

A wonderfully imaginative and beautifully presented interactive anime, but one that cannot maintain a regular enough supply of surprises to justify even its short running time.

If only it had been considerably cheaper, or considerably bigger in scope, this could’ve been a fun ride, but as it is ScreamRide is not really worth the price of entry.

It's not really Ridge Racer, but whether you consider it a reboot or a spin-off this is the best arcade racer since Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.

A surprisingly worthwhile slice of downloadable content, that is better paced and has a more interesting storyline than the main 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.

As unique a vision as video gaming has ever seen and one able to use its many incompetencies – including the new ones – to entertain and surprise.

Some of the best dialogue of the year and an interestingly original portrayal of Hell overcome a slightly undercooked take on classic graphic adventures.

Hugely disappointing retro reboot that fails to offer any of the freedom or fun its premise suggests.

Rushed, repetitive and a huge waste of potential. More expansion pack than sequel - and not even a good one.

After decades of miserable failure, Sonic Team has finally made a good 3D Sonic the Hedgehog game, and it’s one of the best open world platformers ever seen.

Very poor value if you already own last year's version, but even if you don't the console version is still badly compromised compared to the PC.

There are some great ideas here, with clever use of the dual screens, but the game in which they find themselves is far less entertaining than it should be.

An obvious labour of love that finally provides a full release for one of the best looking 2D arcade games ever made, although it’d be wrong to paint it as a lost classic in terms of gameplay.

Real-time strategy for the FarmVille generation, and yet it still owes too much to the past - and offers far less than it pretends for free.

A shadow of one of the former masters of survival horror, that is better equipped to bore than scare.

The best-looking Lego game ever and the most fun Aloy and the rest of the Horizon Zero Dawn cast has ever been, in this cheerful but shallow spin-off.

Fun but slight real-time strategy expansion that's rather short on strategy and value for money.

A fun addition to the sandbox genre, that adds a more structured campaign and achievable goals – at the cost of only a little in the way of accessibility.

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.

A good idea only moderately well implemented, with the novelty of playing cops and robbers lasting only a relatively short time.

Another promising game is ruined by the lure of procedural-generation, which is a particular shame given Sundered’s gorgeous animation and interesting gameplay ideas.

The story set-up is good and there are some interesting new gameplay features, but almost all of them are squandered by sloppy design and technical issues.

It may be a good quality racer but this is also one of the most offensively cynical video games we’ve ever played, and despite being ‘free’ also one of the most expensive.

As unique a vision as video gaming has ever seen and one able to use its many incompetencies – including an unfortunate number of new ones – to entertain and surprise.

A well-crafted and occasionally imaginative dungeon crawler that is let down only by its questionable presentation and sky high difficulty.

It's a gift for fans of the show, but in terms of repetition and combat this is just a little too similar to the 16-bit games it seeks to pay homage to.