Despite being essentially an interactive movie, The Walking Dead: The Game's convincing cast of characters and meaningful decision making lifts it above Telltale's previous efforts.

A clever twist on a classic template, Lexatron brings Scrabble up to date without making it annoyingly complex.

A charming confection that's impossible not to like, with stellar production values and solid gameplay.

A solid and enjoyable puzzling sort-of-shooter that bounces along with just the right speed.

A smart platformer that's even more impressive when you rope in a friend.

Another slice of exacting, unadorned tactical play from Shenandoah, Drive on Moscow doesn’t tinker much with Battle of the Bulge’s mechanics, but its new setting makes for an equally worthwhile challenge.

Gorgeous presentation and an astonishingly complete online element help New International Track and Field overcome its relatively minor issues and ascend very close to the top step of the podium.

Hotline Miami is brutal, gory, masterful, essential. You'll play for the arcade mob shootings, and stay for the psychedelic style.

Greater than the sum of its parts, it's eventually hard to feel anything but sheer joy when playing Magical Starsign.

A sharp, entertaining arcade shooter with a solid heart, Buzz Killem is definitely worth a go.

An engaging, neon-bright puzzler, Slydris plays with the building blocks of the best and comes up with something pretty damn good.

An engrossing strategy game with a rich array of units, excellent replay value and a history lesson thrown in.

Polymer is a brilliant, addictive puzzler, and its blend of logic and shape building make it a game almost anyone can enjoy.

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.

It isn't the most original entry in the Sonic canon, but Sonic Jump is a great little mobile game all the same.

The first non-linear Layton game turns out to be one of the best. Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is a selection of stories and puzzles well worth your time.

Winterstate is a gorgeous free to play vehicle battler, but an unfair timer system and forgettable trading system mildly spoil the fun.

TumbleSeed is a difficult game, for sure, but it's also frustratingly satisfying, fun, and a deserved nod to arcade games past.

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

A brilliant mashing together of chess and giant space warriors.

Wall Kickers might have the look of something you've played before, but give it a try and you'll get a lovely surprise.

If you're willing to put significant work in, the game will reward you. But there's no half measures or casual participation. Ingress is all or nothing.

A fun little dance game that's great for parties or those times when you don't feel like firing up your Wii.

Rekt is a brilliant mashing up of ideas that crackles in some really interesting ways.

Whilst not quite as perfectly formed as its prequel, echoshift is still great fun, and offers a relaxing, slow-paced experience that is perfect for Sunday morning brain training.

You wouldn't call it innovative, but Dots: A Game About Connecting is one of the most stylish and accessible matching games on the App Store.

Metroid Dread is a slick and intense platform-adventure, and the most exciting Switch game Nintendo has produced in quite some time.

Super old-school, but it proves SRPGs still have plenty of depth and charm.

Rebel's unique concept helps it overcome some issues with longevity, and the tight Vita controls elevate it further. If additional content is added over time, this could prove to be essential.

Stylistic contradictions and clunky mechanics stop this from being an instant classic, but tight pacing, winsome presentation, and the FF pedigree still make it well worth a look.

A slick and entertaining puzzler that doesn't quite live up to the brilliance of its predecessor.

With plenty of content and a fresh idea at its core, Cognitile is an entertaining puzzling diversion.

No prior knowledge of The Regular Show? No problem.

Complicated controls can't stop Dead Space from entertaining with its action-packed gameplay and phenomenal presentation.

Cavesweeper is a fun and accessible take on Minesweeper that should make retro game fans quite happy.

A fresh word game that shakes things up just enough to make it feel like you're doing something new.

Addictive and satisfying, Disgaea 4 is an amazing game if you're willing to commit a lot of time to it.

A goofy, adorable, and just plain surreal logic puzzler that delivers its quirky but satisfying action in a whirl of imagination.

Bitcoin Billionaire is admittedly light on gamey-stuff, but it can be extremely difficult to put down all the same.

Repulze may not be as feature packed as some of its rivals, but the focused gameplay and stunning visuals ensure that speed lovers will extract full entertainment value from it.

There's a few problems here and there, but for the most part Sdorica - Sunset is well worth checking out.

Banzai Rabbit doesn't try to conceal its source of inspiration, but the end result is a fantastic recreation of Konami's classic Frogger – albeit one with a few regrettable camera niggles.

Still, the payment structure doesn't get in the way of the raw, petrol-stinking enjoyment too much. If you're a funny of pointlessly gritty cop-bashing Fast and Furious nonsense, then this is well worth checking out.

The best third-person action game available on mobiles, with stunning graphics and tight controls.

A brilliantly addictive abstracted brawler, Fist of Fury deals out compulsive kicks in every bite-sized playthrough.

A brash, bright shooter, Major Mayhem is a brilliant way to waste an hour. It's just a shame there isn't more to get your teeth into.

Wave Trip's quirky style and music-driven arcade gameplay make for a refreshing twist on the Jetpack Joyride format.

Though it can be a little slow, Sunless Sea is a cracking exploration game with a dark, gothic undertow.

A sharp not-shooter with some interesting ideas that's well worth checking out.

A jagged-edged retro-fuelled explosion of brilliance, KeroBlaster is well worth your attention.

An improvement over its predecessor in almost every area and as such the new lord of free-roaming gangster simulations – there's nothing to match it on PSP. But the narrative feels a little undercooked.

The crown prince of the American football game, Madden is showing no signs of weakness as he enters his eighteenth year at the top. It may not justify disposing of 07, but this is a great time for newcomers to join the party.

A bright and silly jetpack sim, Piloteer is a bit of an acquired taste, but once you get there, it's a lot of fun.

Battleheart's thrilling concoction of strategy and role-playing will prove spellbinding to any iPhone gamer looking for a quality fantasy action title.

A bold remix of Chess that dares to level the playing field.

The Elder Scrolls: Legends is a great CCG, but you're going to have to stick with it to really discover that.

The Fractured But Whole is an unexpectedly fun casual RPG that's really easy to pick up and play.

A brilliant and seamless combination of match-three, RPG, and turn-based combat that belies the simplicity of its excellent design.

Wonderfully excessive, but not quite as clever as it thinks it is.

Animal Farm stays true to George Orwell’s masterpiece but incorporates its own fun twist into the classic. I haven’t found out if I could end the game by drinking alcohol with the humans just yet as the book did, but I’d really like to see if the animals would look from pig to man and man to pig and not be able to tell the difference.

Zombie Catchers is a fun, funny, bizarre little game that came out of nowhere and immediately started gnawing on my heart.

Lander Hero may prove too tough for the more casual gamer, but it's a supremely polished and playable game that deserves to be played.

The story is fascinating, and the gameplay is great but this one might not be to everyone's taste.

Full of strategic potential and with more fleet options than you can dance a jig to, Leviathan: Warships is a heavy, engaging naval simulation.

XC2: Torna - The Golden Country is a wonderful add-on to an already great game, but as a standalone experience it doesn't quite work.

Expelled! is a quirky whodunit-esque adventure where every choice you make will determine your fate. The repetitive loop might get tiring at some point, but thankfully, the story is still compelling enough to make you want to go through it over and over again. Or, at the very least, you can take pleasure in watching your enemies take the fall - literally and figuratively.

.Projekt is a brilliantly original, ingeniously designed spatial puzzler with only a few niggling control issues keeping it from true greatness.

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?

Perfect pacing, unobtrusive free to play mechanics, and tense thrills make Winter Fugitives more than worth your time – and maybe even your bail money, too.

It's more Harvest Moon, sure, but it's still top-notch fun, and the inclusion of clear goals this time around should convert some new fans to the series.

Bright, bold, and casual-friendly, Gamevil will have a tough time topping this outing next year.

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?

Calculords is a fresh and interesting mix of ideas that all come together to create an exciting strategy game that's not quite like anything you've played before.

A mammoth package indeed, Jet Set Go takes the 'greatest hits' approach, and manages to deliver a fair yet fiercely addictive time-management sim.

Some people may have an objection to the change of focus and different lead character but, when all the evidence is presented, it's obvious that this is still the Ace Attorney that we know and love.

Pikuniku is a seemingly simple game packed full of clever ideas and smart design. It does a lot with very little, and makes for a delightful puzzle-platformer in doing so. It's single-player mode can feel a bit meandering and frustrating at times as you struggle to make any meaningful progress, and its co-op is brilliant but just a little too short. But despite all this, it's a game that platformer fans simply must play. It's sheer brilliance wrapped in a silly, cute package, and it's by far one of the smartest platformers on Switch to date.

Outlast: Bundle of Terror is a generous survival horror bundle ideal for newcomers to the game and old hands.

Perfect Cell mixes the gameplay of the puzzle, speed run, stealth and line drawing genres into an exciting, if unsettling undersea sci-fi adventure.

A menacingly tough twitch runner, Unpossible is a highly polished, highly enjoyable addition to the genre.

A brilliant platformer that's fun to play and will get under your skin pretty quickly.

Brilliantly paced and even more addictive than Angry Birds, Siege Hero is the rightful new owner of the physics puzzler crown.

A compelling mix of dark plots, kooky stories and lawyer talk, Justice for All adds more evidence to the DS's case as the thinking person's console.

Twin Shooter: Invaders takes me back to my youth, and it lets me take a friend along for the ride.

Prettier, shootier, and bigger than its predecessor, but also a touch awkward at times. Still very much recommended though.

Joe Danger Infinity is another top auto-runner from Hello Games with style and bucketloads of content, but it's way too similar to last year's offering.

A brilliantly stripped-down and pure racer, Pocket Racing 2 is demanding, precise, and darn addictive - even if the World Tour mode occasionally frustrates.

Jydge is a great, difficult, nice looking cyber punk shooter that fits into nicely mobile-sized bursts. It's so much fun I can just about forgive the fact that it's called Jydge.

Kairosoft throws out another stonking management title, with Venture Towns satisfying our hunger for creativity, expansion, and depth.

A fantastically compulsive, very pretty shoot-'em-up - fans of Parodius (and shooters in general) should make a TwinBee-line for this.

Runner2 is a brilliant sequel and every bit as system-throwingly punishing as the original. Spot-on controls, online leaderboards, and plenty of content seal the deal.

Another bullet-dodging thrill ride from the king of crazy shmups. But as a straight port of a 2002 arcade game, it doesn't feel as fresh as its Cave cohorts.

A casual game that keeps the flavour of its inspiration without becoming too diluted.

While Bumpy Road is thin on content, it makes up for that with buckets of occasionally touching indie charm.

It's not simple and it's not soft, but Agricola will give you hours and hours of fun if you can get to grips with it.

A series of five taut, well-written character-driven vignettes, that provide a perfect reason to reenter the world of The Walking Dead.

A demonstration of how brilliant design can enliven the simplest of ideas, Azarashi is a terrific test of your reflexes.

A game that typifies smartphone gaming at its best, 8bit Ninja is charming, addictive, and well worth your time and money.

Battle Blasters has the perfect mixture of killer gameplay, fantastic multiplayer options and slick graphics, all of which come together to create an action title that will keep your trigger finger occupied for some time.