Drive Ahead! Carcade would be a really fun arcade PvP battler if not for the overly sensitive physics system, which makes it hard to manoeuvre.

Grimguard Tactics is an engaging turn-based RPG with a dark feel that relies on genre standard mechanics.

Bloons Card Storm is an extremely fun CCG where you can try out all sorts of crazy strategies and have complete creative freedom over the decks you make. It is a little lacking in terms of additional content, but there is a lot of potential standing on the back of these balloon-popping monkeys!

Balatro is a great card game for beginners and veterans of the genre alike. At a cool $9.99 with hundreds of unique Jokers and other cards to collect, dozens of challenging runs to complete and further challenges, this is one of those rare forever games that's more than worth picking up.

Frostpunk: Beyond the Ice is the mobile conversion of the survival series that looks and sounds good while making your work hard to progress.

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.

This Disney Pixel RPG is just what its title is: an RPG with a party of Disney characters fighting a universe-ending threat that quickly eats your energy and tests your luck.

Hidden in My Paradise is an adorable, hidden object game that has a lot of cute creatures! Not only are you looking for objects, but you can also find fairies hidden within the items on the screen or move around animals to create little stories. It's a cute and clever idea.

Pineapple: A Bitter Sweet Revenge can be played in an evening, giving you a new take on a viral Reddit story, that comes with its own message. It's also fantastic in the level of polish, providing for a very fun game to play.

If you are someone who likes these challenging, grid-based puzzles and can see where to place the path, this is another quality one that you can start playing through! I do quite enjoy the bits of information about each element and how they are used in real life, adding learning to the puzzle game.

The Elder Scrolls: Castles is a fantastical kingdom management sim in which you'll build your castle, send adventurers on quests, and make royal decisions that will affect your subject's loyalty and happiness.

The Level Devil is waiting to torture you with a series of short and tricky levels that you can speed through when you've got some time to spare.

Ouros has a brilliant combination of puzzles that will leave you... puzzled. With minimalistic aesthetics and a pleasant background sound, it makes for an enjoyable experience for people of all ages who want to test their logical thinking.

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.

Legend of the Skyfish continues the journey with better presentation, controls, and more to do as you continue to see and face familiar sights.

All in all, Sword of Convallaria is a pretty decent game. At least to the fans of the genre, I'd say you have to try it. It's free to play so you have nothing to lose. And if you are around my age, it will bring back memories. It's not groundbreaking and it doesn't reinvent the wheel but it's certainly polished enough to offer an enjoyable experience.

Order Daybreak offers entertaining combat and an intriguing sci-fi world. However, the plot is hard to follow making it difficult to become too invested in the characters and world.

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.

Honor of Kings is a classic MOBA which stays true to the genre, and offers plenty of freebies. It's easy to play, to understand, and a lot easier to climb than other games of this genre.

Roia is a light puzzle experience involving the power of water, the influence of geography, and the quiet beauty of nature that leaves you wishing you could see and do more.

Race among a selection of favoured Disney characters throughout their various worlds while hoping for more control in variety and on the touchscreen.

Tarisland is a decent MMORPG with cartoonish graphics, intuitive controls, and a standard combat system. However, the game's characters and storyline aren't distinct enough to be memorable.

Zenless Zone Zero is a stunning work of art that boasts stylish visuals, lofi vibes, and insanely satisfying combat. Dull HDD woes aside, what makes it shine even more in my opinion are the little details - much like that Bangboo that tried (by god, it tried) to transform into a warrior but couldn't. This just goes to show that while this highly anticipated ARPG might just be the next big thing, it also hasn't lost its heart - and that alone makes it worth the wait.

LUNA The Shadow Dust is an enchanting point-and-click adventure that's recently made the jump to mobile. The stunning hand-animated scenes and evocative soundtrack complement the wordless storytelling beautifully, and if you can get past the rage-quit-inducing last chapters, a memorable ending awaits - and maybe even a lesson on persevering through adversity too.

Paper Trail is a very appealing, polished and genuinely challenging at-times game. With great accessibility options, although it has some hiccups, for the low-low price of free we highly recommend it.

Skul: The Hero Slayer turns you into an adaptable skeleton fighter with magic potential and physical skills to boot to fight, jump, and struggle with the touchscreen.

Athenian Rhapsody is a must-play game for fans of humourous RPGs. With a distinct combat system, bizarre characters, and dialogue that will make you giggle, it offers an experience you don't want to pass up.

Squad Busters lives up to the hype as a much faster-paced game than some of Supercell's other offerings. It won't draw in any mobile gaming sceptics, but for Supercell fans and existing mobile gamers this is a worthy addition to the developer's catalogue.

Braid returns as that classic indie title where you help a young man survive trials and solve puzzles with a variety of time powers.

Solo Leveling: Arise is everything you wanted in a manga-turn-mobile game, despite a few hiccups here and there. There are strategic battles at every turn, and many levels to be gained, in order to become the Monarch of Shadows.

Loop Hero is an ingenious roguelike RPG in which you must rebuild reality using cards you earn form defeating enemies.

Paper Trail is arguably one of the best representations of what makes Netflix Games a genuinely great service. Like the OG Netflix, before they began trying to squeeze money out of the reality TV crowd, it feels experimental and chock-full of games you won’t find promoted on other services.

Pilgrims is a charming and humorous adventure game that offers tons of creative puzzles that can be solved in multiple ways.

Satisfy charismatic monsters by feeding them vibrant condos while keeping them balanced and the monsters happy while hoping that luck stays on your side.

Open up the Hamster Inn and help the business grow, take care of guests, and earn the most money while taking active and direct control.

AFK Journey is an engaging idle RPG brimming with epic quests and distinct heroes to collect.

Wildfrost is a gorgeously designed and brutally unforgiving roguelike deck-builder that tasks you with putting an end to an eternal frost. The strategic depth and replayability factor alone make the premium price worth it - add to that the possibility of encountering a naked gnome and it might just be a no-brainer for you.

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.

Strange Horticulture is a very solid game for what it is. If you're interested in occult, folk-horror and mysteries you'll definitely be engaged. The unique gameplay will be familiar to players of point-and-click adventures and has some light puzzle elements. However, some issues from the translation to mobile do detract from the overall experience.

It is no secret that Hades is a fantastic game, people raved about it quite rightly, and it being on mobile is fantastic in theory. Of course, you will need a Netflix subscription, an iPhone, and ideally a controller to deal with the touchscreen issues I had. If you are in this minority of mobile consumers, then you will have a fantastic time, but it is hard to feel that Supergiant could have executed this port in a much more successful manner by including an Android version and spending a lot more time on the touchscreen implementation.

Kingdom: The Blood is an incredibly challenging action game that, while entertaining, needs a few tweaks to reach its potential.

Take a trip to the nostalgic past on your way to the Lost Island with solid customisation, lots to collect, and lots to fight, as fuzzy and easy as it may be.

Crayola Adventures is an engaging story creation adventure game that lets you express your creativity.

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.

Hidden Through Time 2: Myths and Magic! is an adorable hidden object game with a unique time-changing feature. While the game could benefit from a more refined hint system, it still offers an engaging experience.

A relatively breezy puzzle experience, completely free. Fun and interesting, Please, Touch the Artwork 2 does lack a bit of depth that might help it function more as the educational tool it hopes to be.

Wytchwood is an enticing 2D adventure game featuring fun puzzles that will keep you immersed with its charming story and interesting cast of characters.

There are a lot of moving parts in Potion Permit, and it does the majority of them very well, but therein lies its weakness for me. I had fun with it all, but it never excelled in any of these areas enough to become a fantastic game. For $6.99, definitely buy it and you will undoubtedly enjoy yourself and be warmed by its wholesome atmosphere, but it is unavoidably a jack-of-all-trades situation.

From Eva With Green is a unique puzzle-slash-pinball game with lovely aesthetics that aims to provide an almost Zen-like experience on mobile. While the awkward controls weren't particularly intuitive for me, you might still want to give it a go if you're on the hunt for something casual and unique to help you pass the time.

A game about being a king with king and human problems on his shoulders that you need to solve carefully, thoughtfully, and creatively while working with limited information.

Methods: Detective Competition is an engaging visual novel with humorous characters and unique crimes to solve.

Follow the adventures of Pizza Hero, a flying pizza slice with a topping launcher and a dog sidekick that fights waves of monsters despite light technical difficulties.

Love and Deepspace is a gorgeous game with exquisite cutscenes and real-time combat, strewn together into an unapologetically romantic otome game. I personally felt a bit disconnected from the characters because of some awkward story beats, but if you're not one to make a fuss out of narratives, this guilty-pleasure game is the perfect way to ramp up those warm and fuzzy feelings on a cold and rainy night.

The Longing is an idle-slash-point-and-click game that ideally takes 400 days in real time to finish. You can speed things up by triggering certain events in a little over a month, but the deliberately slow pace offers plenty of room for interesting discoveries about the meaning of life in a profound but unpretentious way. Play the game if you've got the time to spare, or if you simply need to be reminded of the lost art of patience in this fast-paced world we live in today.

Money Heist: Ultimate Choice offers an intriguing narrative that's affected by your choices. However, the unchallenging mini-games and Netflix's choice not to release all chapters upon launch bring down what is otherwise a fun experience.

Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat is an enticing action-packed game featuring fun fluid combat in which you'll summon heroes and battle demons.

Tamagotchi Adventure Kingdom is an endearing casual adventure title in which you must save Tamagotchi planet by spreading friendship and love.

Netflix San Andreas is an okay port of a great game. While it shines in the graphics department, the poor controls bring the game down.

Despite the game's relatively short playtime, there was an abundance of evidence to back up that yes, Little Nightmares is perfect on mobile. In fact, I would go as far as to say I can’t imagine it being better on consoles. The intimacy of the experience that mobile brings to Six’s monolithic struggles amplifies the experience, and if you were a fan the first time you played, or have any interest in experiencing this indie darling, you should definitely download this fantastic port.

Puzzle and Dragons Story is a charming casual adventure game with strategic match-3 gameplay.

The Among Us crew has crossed time and space to arrive in Vampire Survivors, bringing a whole new map, quirky characters, and a whole lot of amusing weapons to try out.

Slayaway Camp 2: Netflix and Chill is an enticing puzzle game with challenging levels and a cutesy horror aesthetic that will keep you coming back for more.

Hitman: Blood Money REPRISAL shows that old games can still come out of retirement onto a new platform while bringing with them all the things that made them great in the first place.

Reverse: 1999 is a visually stunning gacha RPG where you'll rage against the backward flow of time. Characters are unique and incredibly well-voiced, but the writing can be a little awkward and pretty lacklustre. Combat is a fun test of your strategic prowess though, so if you're looking for a mobile gacha game where you can play a more active role in controlling your party, then you might want to give this game a go.

Par for the Dungeon is an incredibly fun time, and for the most part manages to find the right balance of challenge to frustration. There are a few levels that feel a little unfair about the exact angle you need to hit a wall, and the monetization is a bit iffy, but you can overlook that pretty easily when stacked against what a great time you will have. Besides, if you don’t, who will help Cal save Cerby?

Coromon is a worthy addition to the monster-catching genre, however, there is no getting away from the fact that TRAGsoft has dumbed down the standard gameplay a bit with its free-SP recovery and Potential system. You can ignore a lot of these, but some people will be turned off by this visage of ease. I loved these changes and found the game quite good fun with its delightfully retro design, and given that you can play up to the third town for free, what have you got to lose?

Dawncaster is a roguelike deck-builder that you can play offline with a convenient portrait mode orientation. The depth of strategy here is impressive, with plenty of replayability that makes it worth the premium price.

Warcraft Rumble is a strategic "tower offence" game where you deploy miniatures via cards across short real-time battles. Familiar faces from the franchise pop up with a variety of abilities you can get tactical with, but it does start to get grindy fairly early on. You can engage in some PvE missions though to level up before you take on others, so it's worth giving it a shot if you're looking to add a new twist to your standard PvP affair.

A fun and dynamic card battler set in the ever-unique universe of Warhammer 40,000. But Warpforge doesn't offer much that's new to bring in sceptical fans or CCG enthusiasts. Yet it has a solid base to build on in future.

Iris and the Giant is a unique roguelite card battler with engaging gameplay mechanics and an incredibly memorable story. There's a great deal of replayability here with its many, many collectibles, but at the end of the day, it's simply a heartfelt lesson on compassion - and heaven knows we need more of that in this world today.

DERE Vengeance could have easily become just another standard platformer with its 2D style and straightforward controls, but it is so much more than that. After that second level, everything gets turned up to eleven. The puzzles are a fantastic challenge, the atmosphere keeps you in such suspense, and the story will keep your attention until the very end.

Endling - Extinction is Forever is a unique stealth game that raises the stakes using lovable cubs and a desperate mother fox across the dreary backdrop of the end of the world. It's a memorable narrative with effective mechanics, but it's not the ideal game to play on your mobile device. It's also best to go through it in short bursts rather than in long sessions to keep the repetitiveness at bay.

DC Heroes & Villains is a match-3 RPG with a unique story and accessible gameplay mechanics. The auto-play combat makes it a more casual experience rather than a strategic one, so it's not the most engaging game to get into if you're looking to challenge your brain. But it's a good time-waster if you're more of an idle player and a big DC fan.

A perfect game for those who can handle a lot of reading and absorb lore (there will be tests), and the best advert for the Glorantha setting that anybody could ask for.

Usagi Shima is a cosy bunny-collecting game where you decorate your island in hopes of attracting bunnies to come play with you. The lovely visuals complement the relaxing gameplay loop perfectly, and if you're looking for a way to de-stress after work, these adorable bunnies have you covered.

Unpacking does a great job of engaging players with its simple mechanics and short but meaningful story. The mobile port may not be the best way to enjoy the title though, but if you can get past the clunky controls, it's bound to be a unique experience with a pretty feel-good ending to boot.

BRIXITY is Devsisters focusing entirely on the idea of building a city while restoring the earth with quick processes but long buildups.

Lost in Play is an aptly titled point-and-click game that's wrapped nicely with gorgeous animations and a lovely story. The puzzles have just the right amount of difficulty without any dialogue, and the game is well-paced at just under 4 hours. It perfectly captures the beauty and wonder of imagination, and reminds us all that when you've got a childlike heart, anything is possible.

A unique spin on the roguelike deckbuilding genre full of well thought out ideas and an addicting gameplay loop.

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals expands on the creepy sound-based universe of the first game through a new perspective and a very slow pace.

Arena Breakout is an absolute joy to play, and I have no doubt that when there are more humans playing it will be incredibly good fun. However, it is so noticeably dragged down by the pitiful AI. The Covert Mode Op is the perfect solution to collect equipment with low risk, but there is no need for the bots to be this bad. If MoreFun adjusts its AI to be moderately challenging, then Arena Breakout is going to be a force to be reckoned with.

Teeny Tiny Town is a puzzling affair about bringing a town to life with creative moves and combinations using a lot of repeat pieces.

Cutting straight to the chase, Legacy 4: Tomb of Secrets is an equal brain cracker of a game and lived up to expectations as a promising sequel. Without sounding too much like a generic corporate-ish shill, David blessed us ruin maniacs with a game with countless hours of puzzle thwacking in an immersive environment. Nothing could top the sheer enjoyment you can get at a steal at $2.99.

In a world overrun with zombies, look to the horizon for a new Undawn and a new beginning for the community, your home, and sometimes zombies.

It's a treat for both fans of thriller detective and pixel graphics work. For sure, it's certainly a good short story you can chew through during your leisure time. All the more made enjoyable by its high replay value as multiple endings are waiting to be discovered.

An expansive top-down isometric 3D RPG with evil forces to fight, repeating heroic abilities to unleash, and loot to gather provided your device and internet can take it.

You're being called on a Mighty Quest Rogue Palace to venture into an everchanging dungeon of the mind with loot to run through and familiar mobs that you'll see a lot.

The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story is a live-action mystery adventure where you'll have to solve murders to piece together a centuries-old case. The narrative is incredibly intriguing, but it can be a huge slog to get there especially for an on-the-go gamer. Be sure you've got the patience to power through if you're looking to get into this game.

As the game places a strong focus on progress, you can grow cities under your jurisdiction into major terminals and gradually unlock new trains. Following the wave of industrialisation, you can also see many innovative industries springing up, their potential lying in wait to be tapped into.

LEGO Bricktales is a unique puzzle adventure that puts building with bricks front and centre. The charming characters and the lighthearted story stay true to the LEGO standard, but perhaps it does so with the building mechanics way too accurately. Building with bricks can be frustrating if you don't have a particular skill set, but if anything else, the controls do truly feel extremely optimised for mobile.

Bouncing puzzles will send your balls everywhere, but Roundgaurd has you sending heroes all over while fighting monsters, getting rich, and hoping luck is on your side.

Super Meat Boy Forever returns in a more suitable format as a mobile endless runner with short challenging levels and strong gameplay.

Learn some survival and maintenance basics while trying to establish a thriving society in the wilderness for low-poly mannequin people.

As a die-hard Megaman Zero and X series fan, I could not help but get hit by nostalgic pangs due to the abundance of similar elements. I had a fun blast with it, and certainly, this sentiment will be shared between hardcore platformers and casuals alike. Its ambient environment, the character cast, challenging platforming, responsive controls, and entertaining boss fights all make for a stellar experience.

How We Know We're Alive is an hour-long narrative journey that tells the story of two estranged best friends with a melancholy mood. The visuals and soundtrack are superb, and while it's not the most gameplay-heavy game out there, it's indeed a powerful reminder of, as the title suggests, how we know we're alive.

Saving the planet has never been more scientific, rewarding, educational, and strategic than Terra Nil as you try to interpret certain requirements.

Punch Kick Duck is a lovely 3D action beat 'em up with a unique rock-paper-scissors mechanic and adorable visuals. Its simple premise might just make you underestimate the game's difficulty, but if you're looking for a twist to your typical side-scrolling brawler, then a duck with a penchant for fisticuffs might just be your cup of tea.

Eversoul is a visually stunning gacha RPG with beautiful characters and even more beautiful animations. It has everything you need in an idle game on mobile, and while I'm not entirely sure it has enough of an appeal to make new players stay, it's still worth giving a go as your mileage may vary - it's free-to-play, after all.