An interesting take on the shmup that appeals to more than just the aficionados.

World of Final Fantasy is an unexpected delight and ranks towards the top of the list of must-haves for Playstation Vita.

A perfect balance of gameplay and metagame, DC Legends is just about the best battler you can get today.

On a platform where there are too many great RPGs to fit on your radar, there are plenty of reasons why Gurumin shouldn't be one of them.

A steep and potentially frustrating learning curve may keep players from reaching the game's deep strategic core.

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.

A truly excellent console-style racer that's been carefully modified for mobile play.

Pace and repetition issues aside, Oh...Sir! is a wonderfully witty and strangely strategic game that will tax your mind and make you smile.

A fairly bright and breezy freemium base builder with light hack-and-slash RPG elements, Zombie Anarchy: Strategy, War & Survival would be a lot better if it demonstrated more brains and less brawn.

Bright, colourful, and tons of fun, PinOut is a reimagining of pinball that blows the original out the water.

If you can overlook its occasional oddities, The Forgotten Room is on its way to being an excellent point-and-click puzzler

A silly, irreverent take on chess that somehow manages to be an awful lot of fun.

A solid enough arcade experience, but scrape away the extra freedom and it's just another arcade experience.

What starts off reasonably well ends up losing its way pretty quickly.

Transportation management and minimalist art combine in this colorful and challenging puzzler.

It might not have the chops of Clash Royale, but Plants vs Zombies: Heroes is still a lot of fun.

RETSNOM promises great things, and has good moments, but is ultimately trite and not all that interesting.

A sharp and entertaining platformer with a big heart despite its vomit obsession.

A weird and dark adventure that's well worth exploring.

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

This isn't a game. I don't know what it is, but it's not a game.

It's better than the original, but there are still games more worthy of your attention out there.

Jade Empire remains a crown jewel in Bioware's line up but this conversion isn't always a fair reflection of the game's true quality.

A kickabout in the park rather than a Wembley final, but a kickabout with compulsion loops designed to keep you playing until long after you've been called home for tea.

As crushing to get used to as real life, Crap! I'm Broke rewards dilligent players with a frantic fun time. Just like real life.

Shuffle Cats offers similar thrills to multiplayer hit Clash Royale, but punishes you financially for playing poorly - and that's not very nice.

A sweet blending together of mobile ideas that just sort of works.

Mushroom Wars 2 does everything pretty well, but what it does isn't the most exciting combination of ideas.

A bright and garish racer that's fun in all of the right ways.

A tough but rewarding BMX game with an awful lot going for it.

If you're interested in story-driven games and cute character art, Burly Men at Sea demands to be played.

A gloomy, exciting, and downright brilliant tactical RPG.

It's got a lot of tanks in it, but right now not that many players.

A relentless shooter with a colorful aesthetic and screen-filling shmup action.

A bright and bold platformer that might be a little formulaic but does everything it sets out to do brilliantly.

Klei's hybrid of cyberpunk sneaking and turn-based tactics is a must-play for fans of the stealth genre.

A sedate, gloomy adventure with enough going for it to make it worth a look.

That Dragon Cancer is a game that deserves to be played, but not on mobile right now.

Equal parts funny and distressing, 60 Seconds lets you tackle the end of the world your way.

If you're willing to try something a bit out of the ordinary, Criminal Girls 2 has a battle system at its core that just about redeems its shady veneer.

A smart and effective point-and-click adventure that's a lovely way to waste an afternoon.

Don't make this your first point and click, but if you've enjoyed Wadjet Eye's other games and don't mind some leaps of logic and a little eye strain, you'll find an evocative and enjoyable little adventure game.

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

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

If you're after a truly traditional RPG experience with some modern 3DS trimmings, Dragon Quest VII is a safe bet that'll keep you busy till Christmas.

Wonderful presentation and solid mechanics can only go so far in masking the game's occasionally overpowering F2P elements.

Fired Up is a fun little arcade game with a unique theme, but one that burns out quickly.

A wonderfully atmospheric point-n-click and a worthy follow-up to Machinarium and Botanicula.

A bright and entertaining adventure game that never gets bogged down in strange ideas.

Submerged is an exploration game that had great potential, if only its story and controls lived up to the visuals' promise.

A gorgeous looking, fun as all hell platformer that mixes the modern and the old fashioned wonderfully

Another excellent entry in the Lumines canon. It might not be the most original, but it's still an awful lot of fun.

A confident follow-up that evolves its solid foundations with new mechanics, Space Marshals 2 is a must-play entry in the shooter genre.

As tired as the soldiers it represents, Take Cover is the same strategy game you've played before, with little to set it apart from the rest.

It's not the most original battler/RPG on mobile, but Sacred Legends does a wonderful job bringing the series to a small screen.

A solid, good looking, but ultimately forgettable hidden object adventure.

Another fine racing game from Vector Unit, filled with modes and great tracks. But it's often too stuffy and serious for its own good.

Leap of Fate is a fun and flashy mix up of genres that'll keep your fingers busy for a while.

Legend of the Skyfish is a veritable tribute to the 2D adventure genre while trying something new.

Lacking in flair and substance, Hyper Blaster is a bland arena shooter that does nothing new with the genre.

An entertaining enough word game that will appeal to fans of shuffling letters around.

A clever use of mobile technology to tell an enthralling story.

Deus Ex GO is another triumph that finds crafty puzzles in the DNA of a much-loved franchise.

A decent twist on the arcade jogger, and one that does enough differently to recommend.

A boring endless runner. Its biggest crime is that we've seen it all before.

Championship Manager 17 is a poor management sim.

Fish Fist is fun in concept, but lacks enough content to keep you hooked.

Lacks the glamour of its competitors, but the game at the core of Summoners Fantasy has a lot going for it.

If you're hankering for a new kind-of on rails shooter, then you might get a teensy bit of a kick out of it. But I'd strongly recommend just going back to the original instead.

It's not the most in-depth of games, but Journey Below plays so well that you won't mind retreading the same ground.

A clever subversion of strategy and casual mobile play that makes you laugh, cry, and think.

Satellina Zero's slick but simple arcade gameplay may grow repetitive, but offers twitchy thrills in short bursts.

A gorgeous, wonderfully well polished and surprisingly playable mobile action adventure that's well worth a look.

A solid and entirely forgettable mobile game that does almost nothing of any note.

Panic Drop is the video game equivalent of having an endless stream of knock off Escher paintings slammed repeatedly into your face.

A solid but completely unremarkable point-and-click adventure.

It may be a solidly put-together experience, but Chaos Chronicle doesn't do anything different to the other RPGs out there.

It might not be the Final Fantasy you want, but it's a Final Fantasy you should definitely try.

Crooked Path is just too difficult for its own good, and that means it won't hang around on your phone for long.

Batman is a pretty standard Telltale game, marred by a boring main character and writing that's either dull, bad, or overly familiar.

It's a pleasure to be involved in Jurassic GO's vivid world, but don't expect more than a cute digital safari.

A fast and reasonably flashy arcade blast with a few tricks up its retro sleeve.

A shiny shooter offering bite-sized varied daily play, but that's a bit too brutal regarding instadeath.

A gorgeous game spoiled by a control system that should work, but doesn't.

A solid work game, with a few wrinkles, that should keep fans of the genre reasonably happy.

As clever and creative as it is simple and minimalist, Blyss will have you coming back for more time and time again.

If very demanding, out-of-the-box, 3D spatial puzzles are your thing, you may love Kubic.

Easy to get into, but may have one thirsting for a bit more.

A slightly daunting prospect, but one that's fun if you put the work in.

Guild of Dungeoneering may frustrate in some aspects, but its charm, style, and concept still make this an interesting and unique dungeon crawler.

ReRunners is the Sonic game we all wanted, with a healthy dose of competitive multiplayer thrown in.

George: Scared of the Dark has its moments, but it has too many frustrations to really recommend.

Micro Machines is a neat little racing game which offers plenty of content and rewards to keep you interested.

As relaxing as a sharp stick to the eye, Quell Zen has too few moments of accomplishment between its aggravating puzzles.

Monster Hunter Generations is the most complete game in the series yet, and the best one at that. If you have friends or family you can hunt with regularly, this is an absolute essential for 3DS.

Super Stickman Golf 3 is one of the best mobile games I've played this year. It takes the simplicity and fun-loving nature of its predecessors and enriches it with greater depth and substance.

Pokémon GO isn't perfect, but its sense of nostalgia and pure excitement are unparallelled.

Rising Warriors is a pleasantly surprising light strategy package that deserves better than its horrendously generic title.