Bayonetta 2 looks and plays better than ever, and somehow surpasses the original. A must have action game.

Golf Blitz isn't just a great golf game, it's a great mobile game full stop.

Dazzingly deep, Lunar Knights is a complex and satisfying game with some nice tricks up its sleeve, although it is short by role-playing standards.

A wonderfully entertaining, perfectly balanced arcade blast, VS. Racing 2 offers the sort of addictive racing everyone can enjoy.

It's difficult to put a numerical score to an experience like Curiosity, but it deserves to be experienced by as many people as possible.

This Kingdom Rush game brings elements from previous titles to make a new story, new adventure, and new strategies thanks to all the new towers, heroes, and levels to try over and over again.

ELOH is a thoroughly charming, delightfully percussive puzzler that's more concerned with rhythm and experimentation than box-ticking achievements.

It might be a little short, but Subsurface Circular feels like it's found its forever home on the Switch.

A pitch perfect, pick up and play blend of strategy and accessibility, history and thrills.

A brilliant horror experience that ticks all the right boxes. Just make sure you play in a dark room with headphones on.

Sim City goes all Bill and Ted's Awesome Reconstruction Adventure. Quite simply the only regional administration simulation you need to own.

An excellently-written retro-flavoured romp that is an utter joy, Space Age may be too simplistic for some, but its adventure and artistry is well worth your time. Highly recommended.

Even a jaded non-fan of tower defence should be able to have a good time with Crystal Siege HD.

The Swindle is a charming caper simulator, with clever risk vs reward systems that push you into brilliant situations and stories.

Figure Fantasy is a refreshing take on idle gacha RPGs that makes it a must-try for fans of the genre (or fans of figure collections, for that matter). Its beautifully rendered in-game figurines will likely satisfy any figurine aficionado - or aggravate that unquenchable thirst to collect them all.

Bold, blocky, and beguiling, Bernhard Schulenburg's puzzle platformer is an indie gem, a beautiful concept executed upon spectacularly.

A smart and slick platformer that just gets better the deeper you get into it.

Mario takes on the roleplaying genre again and comes up trumps once more. Mario & Luigi is a carefully crafted adventure that's worth exploring even if you're not a huge fan of the classic platformers.

The Pokémon TCG is a truly engrossing card battler. This digital version is generous with content and feels great, but technical hitches hold it back from greatness.

A simple and incredibly effective multiplayer experience, Spaceteam is all about playing together and creating your own stories.

An alarmingly bonkers point-and-click puzzle title which is positively bursting with originality and insane conundrums, McPixel is short but most definitely sweet.

A strategy game that can be enjoyed by strategy buffs and noobs alike. Practically essential for Vita owners.

Takes a good board game and uses all the digital tricks to make a truly great app.

Football Manager Touch 2016 has its fair share of niggles, but its quality and depth always shine through.

A beautiful, effortlessly playable endless snowboarder, Alto's Adventure is almost as much fun to play as it is to look at.

Like a bottle of fine scotch, SMT IV won't be for everyone - but those RPG enthusiasts who can appreciate its subtlety and challenge will cherish it for years to come.

South of the Circle is one of those games that you'll either love or hate. The great news is that is an Apple Arcade game, you can try it without spending extra money. And if you do, you won't regret it.

Subtle, hugely addictive and massively fun, this is a rare strategy title that manages to be as accessible as it is deep.

The Nintendo DS port of one of the most beloved classic Dragon Quest games has made the transition to mobile incredibly well. For the most part.

Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier is an action-packed platforming romp that punches above its weight and connects effortlessly. A Christmas must-have for young and old gamers alike.

Coming in a polished package, with an excellent soundtrack and pleasing graphics, The Darkside Detective does the unthinkable and actually makes a point-and-click adventure game intuitive and doesn't have puzzles which overstay their welcome. The humour may not be what you're looking for in a retro throwback, but the design more than makes up for it.

A fitting and fantastic end to one of the best gamebook adventures on mobile. Make sure you pick it up.

A cunning and addictive sim, Motorsport Manager offers enough that genre fans will love it, and casual players won't be put off.

A brash and brilliant futuristic arcade racer, AG Drive is everything you hoped it would be.

A thick and entertaining mobile MOBA that's probably the best of the bunch.

Slay The Spire was already a sub-genre defining classic, now that it's available handheld it can be played on the go, or away from the big screen, and that's great. It's a competent port which, with a little tweaking and refinement, could be perfect.

Path to Nowhere is a compelling tower defence RPG with stunning visuals that make collecting characters an absolute thrill. The stamina system can feel a little restrictive, but if you're looking for a new take on gachas and tower defence, it's definitely well worth your time.

A challenging retro platformer whose nonlinear structure is both a rewarding aspect and a potential source of frustration.

Football Manager Touch 2017 is an iterative update, but that still makes it far and away the best football management game on iOS and Android.

Simple controls disguise an incredibly engaging and challenging adventure. An Alien with a Magnet is a near-faultless mobile release.

If you're looking for a clever, welcoming platformer with a lot of heart, Twelve a Dozen is going to be right up your street.

A beautifully designed, relentlessly inventive space oddity with genuine heart.

A mediaeval marvel, brimming with virtual life and character. Minor conversion issues aside, Oh! Edo Towns is highly recommended.

Battle Bay is the perfect way to kick off the warmer summer months. It's familiar, sure, but its bright and beautiful design and masterfully crafted gameplay will quickly make you forget that you may have played this game before in some other guise.

The 3DS eShop scores another whopper, as Art of Balance Touch! is essential puzzle gaming.

Thanks to brilliant design, fantastic gameplay and its in-built rumble device, Drill Dozer is one of the best 2D platformers you'll ever play.

Meteorfall is exactly what you want from a single player card game. It's fun, it's deep, and it'll keep you coming back for more.

Score! Classic Goals is a fantastic idea, executed marvellously. Why did no one think of this sooner?

Rayman Fiesta Run is another giddy and breathless mix of memory and reflexes. It's not much different from its prequel, but the added challenge is welcome.

Astra: Knights of Veda is a thrilling idle action RPG in which you battle foes in side-scrolling levels as you seek the missing fragments of the goddess Veda.

XCOM's battles are tense and rewarding, and are married to a clever base-building meta-game. All this, in a solid and eminently playable iOS port.

Jetpack Joyride is simplistic fun, but Halfbrick's suite of bonuses, unlockables, leaderboards, and achievements makes it near irresistible.

Incredible, silky smooth fighting action paired with some incredible visuals makes this easily one of the best looking games on Switch, and quite possibly the best looking fighting game to ever grace a handheld.

Expansive, gorgeous, hardcore, free: Real Racing 3 sets the new standard on mobile for racing games.

A homage to '80s pop culture and a legitimately entertaining role-playing title to boot, Saturday Morning RPG is as unique as it is enjoyable.

A glorious, pure co-op experience, It Takes Two perfects the balance of give and take through its ingenuitive puzzles, stellar storytelling, and enchanting environments. With communication at its core, it truly takes two to tango with this one, and I couldn’t think of a better home for it than the Nintendo Switch.

Extraordinarily polished gameplay and high production values guarantee a blast, even if N.O.V.A. lacks the originality necessary to be an all-time classic.

A love letter to table top RPGs, Loot & Legends is endearing and engaging in equal measure.

Scribblenauts Unlimited hones the original open creativity concept, and comes away with a fine-tuned must-have experience.

A thoughtful, fresh, and surprisingly fun game of observation and resource management, Papers, Please is one of the most distinctive games on any platform.

Dragon Quest V's western debut has been a long time coming but this reshaping of an undisputed genre classic in the form of Hand of the Heavenly Bride is a must for RPG fans.

Unforgiving, relentless, soul-crushing, precise, gorgeous, addictive, fantastic - RETRY is all these things, go get it.

A fun retro shooter that's had enough modern tweaks to make it a nearly essential purchase.

Gorgeous, challenging and thrillingly different, Groove Coaster is a treat for the eyes, the ears, and the soul.

A game of superior quality that packs robust multiplayer and functional controls, Starfront: Collision establishes a new standard in portable real-time strategy.

Asphalt 9 offers controls for everyone, fun for everyone, and white-knuckle, cackling-with-laughter crashes for everyone.

A bright cartoony shooter with an awful lot going for it. Grab it, shoot stuff.

Indeed, it's somewhat ironic that only now, with the integration of Wi-Fi, Pokémon has become the community game it's always pretended to be. Casting a retrospective eye upon the series, it would appear that every game since the series started in 1995 has just been a level up. This, finally, is the real deal. [JPN Import]

A well-designed and varied word game, Typeshift is an unmissable entry to the genre.

Downwell is a brilliantly balanced vertical roguelike.

Crossy Road might be based on an arcade classic, but it looks great and offers tons of replayability on top of simply being lots of fun.

It may not be a particularly long game but Oxenfree is the right kind of creepy without relying on visual cliches.

This might not be the best way to play the game, but if you exclusively play on mobile it's a brilliant addition to any homescreen. It's tight, it's tense, and some of the puzzles you need to solve are crafted brilliantly. This is the sort of grim, ghastly, and utterly compelling adventure that really hammers home just how interesting videogames can be if they step outside the bright colours and gacha mechanics that persist throughout the App Store.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is the definitive entry point for the series, and the most finely tuned multiplayer game on the 3DS yet.

A brilliant and beguilingly simple hardcore platformer, 1001 Attempts delivers more excitement in its bite sized blasts than most games could ever dream of.

With a few extra features Telling Lies, the game, would be perfect. As a narrative experience experiment it is, however, utterly unmatched and deserves to be talked about for years.

A highly polished, thoroughly engrossing sequel that delivers on all counts, Luxor: Amun Rising HD shines bright in the ever-crowded puzzle genre.

An extraordinary example of how to properly remake a classic, Broken Sword: Director's Cut remasters the original with wise alterations that galvanise rather than degrade.

Catalyst Black is an AAA-quality battleground shooter on mobile that features top-notch production value you can expect from the makers of VainGlory. Gameplay is smooth, stunning, fast-paced, and most of all, extremely fun - it doesn't really need to be anything more than that.

A charming twist on the Scrabble formula with more than enough content to keep you playing into the new year, Spellwood is well worth the investment.

From our perspective, echochrome is easily the best downloadable game currently available for PSP.

Those looking for an opportunity to build a world, while destroying someone else's, will find Clash of Clans a very appealing package with surprisingly deep layers of strategy to dig through.

With an engaging, lengthy story and a shockingly good technical presentation, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt easily becomes Nintendo Switch's best port, and one of the best RPGs on the system. If you haven't played it yet, do so immediately.

The Children of Morta will give everything and fight anything to stop the Corruption from spreading across their world with the aid of individual masteries and touchy controls.

Compulsive toy collectors: beware! Skylanders Lost Islands is a superbly made world builder, with enough hooks to make you return time and time again

A wonderfully put together game that manages to take the best elements of two genres and squish them together into a cohesive whole. Highly recommended.

Brilliantly combining as stiff a task as you're likely to encounter with a perfectly pitched sense of fun, Kingdom Rush breathes new life into the tower defence genre, and has a whole lot of laughs doing it.

A game of immense quality, Sentinel 3: Homeworld represents the best of the tower defence genre with both depth and immediate action.

Few games have managed to enhance their own reputation and addictiveness as admirably as Infinity Gene. It's the 1978 arcade classic happening all over again, now.

StarFox 64 3D reminds us why we've been begging Nintendo for a proper sequel for nearly 15 years.

Ex Astris is a premium mobile RPG with a one-of-a-kind mix of real-time and turn-based combat. The lack of controller support can be a bummer, and the complicated combat mechanics take some getting used to. But if you're tired of your typical gacha game, this compelling single-player title can be a complete steal.

Clever, experimental, and a little bit special, The Big Big Castle! tempers its frustration with bouts of crashing masonry and moments of joy as your teetering creation stands up for long enough to finish a level.

The best of the three GBA re-issues, Final Fantasy VI Advance is a timeless dollop of role-playing adventure gaming.

A superb word-strategy game with enough polish and charm to overlook its lack of multiplayer.

A brilliant variation on the endless-runner genre, Worm Run is breathless, addictive fun of the highest calibre.

One of the must-have PSP games of the year, LocoRoco 2 delivers everything we could have wanted - more stuff to unlock and plenty of joyful, secret-packed levels full of weirdness and wonder.

Afterplace is a mysterious place full of strange places and even stranger creatures where you'll need to practice the touch controls in order to see and understand them all.

A brave and brilliant platform game, Astronot deserves to be played by as many people as possible.