Final Fantasy Record Keeper will please many fans, but RPG fanatics wanting to sink their teeth into something may be taken aback by the initial lack of content available at launch.

A slight and lovely puzzler, Breath of Light won't appeal to everyone, but if you like it you'll probably love it.

A bright and pretty brilliant retro shooter.

A neat enough recreation of cricket, and it's free so you may as well have a crack.

The Trace is a little plain, but does a good job of letting you play detective with its smart cobweb of questions and clues.

A bright and wonderfully well put together game, Silly Sausage ranks with Nitrome's best.

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.

A visually alluring spatial puzzler that doesn't quite control with enough precision.

A bold, innovative colour-matching puzzler that suffers from poor control calibration.

There's a good game trying to get out here, but it gets nerfed too often by fiddly controls.

A teeth grindingly awful game, but you'll still want to get to the end of it.

A wonderfully put together mobile advenutre, Poco Eco is well worth your attention.

An App Store rarity - a proper head-scratcher that's great looking and also has something to say.

A dreary button masher that's neither interesting or exciting enough to recommend.

An interesting idea that failed to turn into an interesting game, 94% is largely dull.

A clever, fast-paced word game that's well worth a look.

An energising and hilariously funny version of Hamlet, Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be is a crucial gamebook for literature buffs and comedy fans alike.

Great visuals and sound fail to cover up a bland game - Jelly Jump is all style and no substance.

A clever twist on the bullet hell genre, Magenta Arcade is well worth checking out.

A bright and engaging mix of the old and the new, SwapQuest is definitely worth a look.

A neat hacky slasher, it's pretty shallow, but there's a decent amount of fun to be sucked from its marrow.

A generously expanded platformer that nevertheless feels a little lightweight and insubstantial the second time around.

A lovingly presented, if scruffily haphazard, roguelike that shows its board game workings.

Religion Simulator might work better as a slower game with more options, but what's here is engaging and sure to give you a power-rush.

A neat distillation of cricket. It's not exactly tactical, but it's quite a lot of fun all the same.

There's a decent racer somewhere here, but it's lost in a slosh of bad ideas and poorly implemented features.

A smart and sharp puzzler that's got enough challenge to keep you playing for a while.

A game about walking around hitting things. If you like the sound of that then you should probably download it.

So if that's what you're after, Real Steel Champions is undoubtedly worth further investigation. If you're after the next One Must Fall, you'll be disappointed.

A brilliant distillation of the dungeon crawler, Card Crawl is well worth a look.

Sid Meier's Starships is an excellent large scale strategy game, that's nevertheless pleasingly bite-sized.

A neat twist on the shooter with some surprisingly sharp claws.

A nice twist on the super-hard endless runner with a relatively fresh and demanding core mechanic.

Pick up the game if you’re a fan of the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, but stay away if you’re looking for a solid strategy RPG.

Another solid but unremarkable Games Workshop game hits the App Store.

Flame Over seems too hot to handle at first, but it's worth every hour you invest into it.

Striker Arena has some great ideas and you'll want to love it, but it's too cumbersome, disjointed, and shallow to last.

Visually smart and with at least a little imagination, Blockwick 2 is the best sliding-block game around - although that still amounts to only a good iOS game.

A promising twist on the endless runner genre, but a lack of variety and an awful ad system spoil things.

Unusual gameplay and rich theme help bring Vietnam to life, but repetition sets in sooner than it should.

Utterly essential for CCG and strategy fans, Heavenstrike Rivals is your new favourite free to play game, so go get it.

A sharp-edged retro RPG with a sense of humour and a lot of content.

There's a neat game here, but it doesn't last very long.

What's up for grabs isn't perfect, but it's a strong start. A little work and a little time, and we should get our "happily ever after."

There's a decent game here, but RAD Boarders doesn't really do anything you won't have seen before.

rustration, fury, and eventual elation - it's all in a day's work for OlliOlli 2. A near-perfect sequel.

Despite a fun premise, BeatDefence fails to make the desired impact thanks to gameplay that can't keep to the beat.

A polished and engaging puzzler, but it doesn't quite have the claws to remain on your homescreen for long.

A great mix of engaging fantasy and challenging strategy, offering big replay value for the asking price.

A fun, engaging matching puzzler that isn't quite as complex or smart as it first seems.

The simple pleasure of Space Invaders, with changes fit for modern eyes and thumbs. An utter joy to play.

Prison Life RPG has an unexpected amount of depth and replayability, but the number crunching can get tedious. Plus, it's often deeply unpleasant.

A well fleshed out and pretty darn entertaining arcade experience.

World Zombination is an essential download if you like tower defence games with a little more bite.

A wonderful, super engaging arcade squiggler, Magic Touch ranks with Nitrome's best.

Tap Heroes distils the fun of RPGs down into a simple, satisfying little game - but the gimmick doesn't last that long.

A big silly flappy bang bang nonsense of a shooty game.

Capitalism Quest has issues with slow servers, but its basic concept is interesting - and a bit sobering.

A hard-as-nails arcade dodger, Mayhem! will be too tough for some, but if you're after a challenge it's well worth picking up.

An interesting shooter with some neat ideas that doesn't overstay its welcome.

A perfunctory twin-stick shooter that plays just fine, but fails to do anything of particular note.

No prior knowledge of The Regular Show? No problem.

This premium release of a free-to-play game does away with the ads and most of the grinding, leaving players with an enjoyable turn-based MOBA (of a sort).

An absolutely run-of-the-mill click / idle experience, ideal for anyone who's decided to give up games for incessant tapping.

There are some nice ideas here, but it can sometimes be a little too fiddly.

A competent and minimalistic endless climber that simply doesn't feel as fresh as it needs to be.

There's a brilliant 2D fighter here, but a smartphone or a tablet isn't the best place to play it.

A well put together game for younger players, you might even enjoy the odd go yourself.

Flashout 2S is a little lifeless, but it's good for a freebie. If you like it, get the premium version for a more balanced experience.

Although it's bursting with artistic detail, Mecha Showdown substitutes robot-on-alien combat for a superficial and ultra-basic slot machine simulator.

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

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

There's a neat idea here, but Moto Joe just isn't good enough to see it through.

Switch & Drop is reasonably entertaining, but it's never going to trouble any of the puzzling classics the App Store has to offer.

There's a decent beat to Imps in Tokyo that should get you past most of its little problems.

Pursuit of Light has a clever idea at its core, but it fizzles out due to poor execution and unfair mechanics.

Jolly Jam doesn't do exactly what you expect it do, and in the casual arena that's certainly something to celebrate.

A gorgeous looking, surprisingly smart twist on RPG scrapping, Swap Heroes 2 is more of the same, but that's not really a bad thing.

A solid tower defence game with some decent ideas, if you like the genre Because Zombies is worth a shot.

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.

A perfectly decent, good-looking endurance match game that you'll play for a bit, enjoy quite a lot, but probably forget about fairly quickly.

A deceptively compelling roguelike with a clever chess-based theme, but boy is it rough around the edges.

It's presented quite well, but One Piece Treasure Cruise still feels like something we've all played before.

A middle weight strategy title of distinctly middling quality.

While the original Darklings was a great idea well implemented, this second season loses its way.

An endearing and often challenging platformer that sees its idea through.

There's a solid enough puzzler here, but Shapes!! doesn't really have enough going for it to wholeheartedly recommend.

Bafflingly constructed and clunkily executed, Atmospug, the Cloud Jumping Dog is barking up the wrong casual platformer tree.

Though it doesn't bring anything new to either genre, Planet Quest is a quirky and charming blend of rhythm action and one-tap done right.

Exciting, deep and innovative, but fails to capture the spirit and accessibility of the original.

Criminal Girls: Invite Only's reliance on shock value puts the weakest part of the game in the limelight, obscuring the otherwise interesting battle mechanics.

Although its dystopian urban visage is fairly trite, Gang Nations levels up the base building genre with some excellent tower defence mechanics.

Pukka Golf adds a unique and enjoyable spin on physics-based golf games by letting you take shots from the air.

A pretty stunt racer with a novel time mechanic and simple straightforward structure. I just wish there was more.

A clever shuffling of shooting mechanics, Tempo might not let you pull the trigger, but it sprints along at a frantic pace all the same.

A game that asks you to collect musical notes to activate a portal while using cobras to avoid colored dots from trapping you inside a triangle is every bit as confounding as it sounds.

A nice looking game that's thwarted at every turn by controls that just don't do the job.

There's a great game here, but it gets a little lost in translation.