Pocket Gamer UK's Scores

  • Games
For 6,041 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 31% higher than the average critic
  • 19% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 God of War: Chains of Olympus
Lowest review score: 10 Angels In The Sky
Score distribution:
6042 game reviews
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Buggy and unresponsive, NBA 2K12 isn't worth the money.
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    The full beauty of Spiritfarer with all its management and social adventure fits neatly in your phone, just be prepared to do a lot of running back-and-forth. [Early Access Provisional Score = 90]
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    Overall, Sheep Squad isn’t a game for me. It’s possible but those that play a lot of the game Worm might really enjoy it - especially with the adorable range of animals to play with and their cool weapons, however the UI being the way it is makes the game just too challenging and hard to understand for me. Also there are a lot of pop-ups.
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    Micetopia plays like a game where the odds are unfairly stacked against you. It doesn't feel like you are a hero who is meant to be saving these villagers or even has a chance to really make it far without spending tons of time grinding and upgrading. Even then, some areas have checkpoints that are too spread out to feel fair.
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    Slay the Beat has an interesting concept but doesn't offer enough content to keep you interested beyond a single playthrough. The soundtrack is limited to just a few songs, only a few types of enemies appear over the course of the game, and several recurring bugs make it hard to think of this as anything other than an extended tech demo.
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    Despite hauntingly beautiful graphics, the core of Dark Odds leaves much to be desired. It's choices are often shallow and circuitous, and the inability to revisit previous scenes without replaying the entire game makes multiple playthroughs a chore.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Deadly Premonition 2's is a game built exclusively for fans of the original, and even they will be put off by the endless bugs, horrible performance, and questionable design.
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    One Punch Man: Road to Hero 2.0 lacks any kind of imagination or inspiration. This was always meant to be a gacha cash-in featuring OPM characters, and it doesn't even do that well. This game exists to take your money, not entertain you, and you shouldn't even deign to download it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Death Come True is a thriller devoid of tension, a comedy lacking in laughs, and a mystery that is unlikely to elicit more than a shrug.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Selma and the Wisp is boring, poorly-designed, and no fun at all to play, but it is at least quite short.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Caligula Effect: Overdose has one good idea, and it squanders it with a bunch of other terrible choices.
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    Crimson Keep's knock-about brand of roguelike ARPG proves fundamentally flawed, with clumsy combat, repetitive levels, and a clunky core menu system.
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    Shaq was the player that got me into basketball, Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn might be the title that gets me out of gaming.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For all its silliness, Soccer Slammers is just too random to be really engaging.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Brakes are for Losers has some nice ideas, but the package is one that's going to leave you frustrated more often than not.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It doesn't take a genius to work this one out - The X-Files: Deep State is boring, uninspired, and not worth your time.
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    The Uncertain gets off to a poor start in its first episode, thanks to poor writing, uninspired puzzles, and a wonky camera.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Noblemen: 1896 tries its hand at something different, but in the end it's too muddled and clunky to enjoy.
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    As unoriginal as its titular villains, March to War takes all the intrigue of The Walking Dead and hides it behind muddy graphics and too many menus.
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    About as shameless as it gets, Blitz Brigade: Rival Tactics takes all the ideas of Clash Royale while completely ignoring what made it great.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    A hollow experience, layered with dull humour, that you should definitely avoid.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    As boring and laborious as the real thing, Construction Simulator 2 may be accurate in some ways, but it's not worth playing.
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    An absolute travesty of an experience that should never have been allowed onto the eShop in the first place.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    A throwback of the worst kind. Post Brutal is clunky, stupid, and only fun to laugh at.
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    A dull, repetitive, and not very clever game of managing and destroying a country.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    A good idea on paper, but simply too complex for mobile.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    A boring game with little to offer.
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    This isn't a game. I don't know what it is, but it's not a game.
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    Lacking in flair and substance, Hyper Blaster is a bland arena shooter that does nothing new with the genre.
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    A boring endless runner. Its biggest crime is that we've seen it all before.
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    Championship Manager 17 is a poor management sim.
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    Panic Drop is the video game equivalent of having an endless stream of knock off Escher paintings slammed repeatedly into your face.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    A gorgeous game spoiled by a control system that should work, but doesn't.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    A terrible game, but one that manages to say a lot without meaning to.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Don't let the visuals fool you - Marvel Avengers Academy is an example of free to play at it's worst. And, if that's not enough to put you off, the dialogue absolutely will.
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    A broken, not particularly interesting game. There are better arcade racers on mobile, so go play those instead.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Saddled with bugs, greed and mechanical problems, Pixel Starships can't even make the grade as a free base-builder.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Devouring Stars' main crime is that it's boring, and that's unforgivable on the App Store.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    A potentially interesting shooter that's let down catastrophically by its underwhelming controls.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    The seeds of something great are lurking, but most of the good's clubbed out of this game with the subtlety of a baseball bat to the head.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    A clunky, heavy-handed, almost mercifully brief mystery puzzle game that falls well short of its lofty narrative targets.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    If ridiculously hard games are your thing, you might have a ball, if you don shades. For mere mortals, it's a joyless slog.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Rambo: The Mobile Game may not be the worst game on the App Store, but it's still a lazy and expensive tie-in.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Towers Runner was a game made not for humans, but for spreadsheets on the desktops of chancers and charlatans.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Math Academy looks the part, but is deceptively boring, and dumb to boot.
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    There's just so much wrong with Drift City Mobile that it's difficult to know how to write a pithy summation of its faults. Essentially you should (and will) quickly forget that this auto-racer ever existed.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Luscious presentation and satisfying sounds do little to disguise an unimaginative and bland take on an already well-worn genre.
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    The kind of concept that should be winning a gold award. Instead, it’s too keen on getting you to buy gold, and its other shortcomings are many.
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    There's a middling idea here, but it's not executed very well.
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    With fundamentally broken combat and nothing new to bring to the table, Colossus Command is a boring and insipid retread of all that's come before it.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    A dull hidden object game that's somehow simultaneously bland and unpalatably garish.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Badly put together, boring to play, and wholly derivative, you have played a dozen strategy management games that are twenty times more accomplished than Galaxy Conquest II: Space Wars.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    A poor twist on the endless climber that somehow makes things even more simplistic and frustrating.
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    A run-of-the-mill puzzle game that could have been OK for kids had it not been buried under eighteen tons of IAP.
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    You can do better.
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    A sloppy mess of a game - Slippy Slopes is worth sliding past.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    A predictably shallow, cynical tie-in that lays the IAPs on as thick as the action.
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    There's a set of ideas here that could have been something special, but it all falls flat on its windy face.
    • 54 Metascore
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    Speedboat Paradise is equally uninspiring and unpleasant, and the tiresome races simply aren't worth all the grinding and waiting.
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    Servicable, if typical, strategy mechanics are ruined by an aggressive free to play model and terrible presentation, although pass and play is worth a brief try.
    • 51 Metascore
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    A dreary button masher that's neither interesting or exciting enough to recommend.
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    An absolutely run-of-the-mill click / idle experience, ideal for anyone who's decided to give up games for incessant tapping.
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    There's a neat idea here, but Moto Joe just isn't good enough to see it through.
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    In all honesty I'm not sure I'd have anything nice to say about Ancient Empires: Thorin Battle even if there weren't already years of far better strategy games to play instead.
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    Bafflingly constructed and clunkily executed, Atmospug, the Cloud Jumping Dog is barking up the wrong casual platformer tree.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's cute, but Hose it Down is an uninventive puzzler, filled with dumb design decisions and a paywall as soon as it really gets going.
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    As funny as a Flappy Bird clone dressed up in a Team America costume, and about as playable.
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    A novel release for sure, but one only the most steadfast Japanophiles will enjoy.
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    BlitzKeep is way more frustrating than fun.
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    Simplistic in the extreme, D-Day 1597 quickly runs out of fun or interest.
    • 76 Metascore
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    Fahrenheit was ambitious and innovative in 2005, but ten years later it's just clunky and tedious.
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    By no means an awful platform game, but certainly a mediocre one. There are far better options on iOS.
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    One Tap Desert Hero is a bit broken, but a far bigger issue is how tedious it becomes.
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    A sparse, clunky golf game with a twist that fails to add anything meaningfully new to the genre
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    Like 99% of the games in Breezy Leaf's genre, you'll download it, play it, get confused, get frustrated, and delete it.
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    Escape from Laville 2 is a poorly-made adventure game of interest only to any Escape from Laville fans out there.
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    Like driving a milk float through treacle with occasional bricks to steer past, The Drive: Devil's Run isn't fast, but it might make you furious.
    • 50 Metascore
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    A game about tapping the screen. And that's about it, really.
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    The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies - Fight for Middle-earth may be free, but that doesn't mean it's worth your time.
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    Dungeon of Genesis is a dungeon crawler with some potential, but potential is all it has.
    • 53 Metascore
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    What was a great console game almost 20 years ago simply doesn't work on a touchscreen.
    • 63 Metascore
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    Somewhere within Earn to Die 2 are the ingredients for some exhilarating ‘one more go' jeopardy-based gameplay, but the recipe used here is downright repulsive.
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    Despite its shortcomings, not so much a bad game as just a boring (and buggy) one that lacks bite.
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    Stripping the kart racing genre of all of its vital elements, Monkey Racing is a thoroughly flat and soulless experience.
    • 60 Metascore
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    Slowdown, loading screens, and AI woes plague Tiny Troopers: Joint Ops all too often, leaving it a disjointed game at best.
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    A jumble of ideas that don't work very well together or apart, this is one to avoid.
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    In its current form, it saddens me to say that there is nothing to recommend about Red Riding Hood and the Restless Wolves, apart from some nice music.
    • 56 Metascore
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    A poorly put together dungeon crawler with little personality and bad controls.
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    A potentially fantastic futuristic racer that completely fails to get the controls right, and as a result becomes a real challenge to enjoy.
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    It's not often that a movie tie-in game amounts to anything better than "awful" and Interstellar doesn't do much to buck that trend.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    An interesting idea that becomes a not particularly interesting game.
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    Sword King is a terrible way to spend your time. Sword King is a complete waste of money. Sword King made me cry.
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    Even with a few added features thrown into the mix, at its core Dawn Tanks is pretty much just another 'artillery' game.
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    Watchout has a nice enough style to it, but the twitchy gameplay still feels very been-there, done-that.
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    Fnger Simulator is an intriguing, tactile tech demo, but that's all. Do not touch.
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    Fairly bland but nicely illustrated shooty zombie shenanigans, largely wrecked by dreadful controls and an inevitably dispiriting upgrade system.
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    A dull and fatally over-simplified take on the RPG, One Tap RPG streamlines interaction to the point where it's not really a game at all.
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    A truly wretched experience that lacks any semblance of gameplay, and can't even shore itself up with graphics that look anything other than ordinary. Awful.
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    It's like a Lethal Weapon knock-off story in a Blade Runner knock-off world, all filtered through the pure madness that is a Kemco RPG. If that description sounds awesome to you, drop a few bucks on this one. I doubt you'll be disappointed that you did.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Disney Bola Football looks like a decent, cartoony game of football. It’s definitely cartoony.

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