Replacing guns and glory with a good old fashioned football, Pro Zombie Soccer's line-up of ghouls aplenty manages to endear and excite in equal measure.

The passing of time has done little to dull this classic adventure. This DS release might just be the best version of Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars yet

A great mix of card game and tactical tower defence, Alexandria Bloodshow picks up where its predecessor left off, and builds an entertaining, surprisingly deep experience.

The King of Fighters '98 is a fantastic port of an excellent game, but don't expect any frills.

'No Going Back' rounds off a season that was second in both senses, but it contains some powerful moments while laying the foundations for a gut-wrenching third season.

Genuinely innovative puzzler that will change the way you think about the genre.

Catch 22's simple set up reveals a game that quickly becomes pretty tough, but always eggs you on to try again.

A great boardgame that plays with all the pace of the best mobile titles.

Super Crate Box is a stark and challenging indie game shot through with humour and care.

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.

It's got a few shortcomings, but you're still going to have an awful lot of fun with Basketball Stars.

With just over a dozen hours of clever and varied gameplay, Kingdom Hearts Re:coded will appeal to many an RPG fan, including those who are yet to experience the Kingdom Hearts world.

A brilliantly ridiculous arcade blast, Wrassling gets deeper the more you play it too.

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

Fun and occasionally frantic, Zombie Ace has enough intriguing tricks up its undead sleeve to keep you entertained for a few hours.

Clever and beautiful are a winning combination, and TwoDots has both in abundance.

A lengthy, story-heavy RPG that balances typical turn-based combat with a dark and engrossing tale.

Still pining for some Tetris after all these years? Tetris 3DS is yet another great addition to the franchise, with tons of modes and exciting multiplayer action.

Reed doesn't take any prisoners, and if that's the sort of experience you're after you're going to absolutely love it.

Good virtual controls and easy-going gameplay make Final Fantasy III a recommended role-playing adventure.

Aside from some occasionally irksome controls, Lego Batman: DC Super Heroes proves that the tried-and-tested Lego formula can work on almost any device.

A sharp and engaging shooter that's not afraid to be tough as old boots.

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!

It doesn't really add a great deal to the original mobile phone release but Orcs & Elves DS remains an extremely polished and playable adventure that is well worth splashing your Dwarven gold on.

A fresh and attractive casual tower defence game that benefits from the sharp interplay between its various units.

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

A raucous and incredibly clever physics-based puzzler, Hambo is a brilliant example of iterative game design done right.

Zoombies: Animales de la Muerte borrows from the best and adds its own fresh twists to the castle defence sub-genre, including a delightfully tactile control system.

Aliens: Infestation is the side-scrolling Metroid you've been waiting for, and will especially excite fans of the original movie.

It might not hit the right notes all the time, but Shadowrun Returns has enough going for it to make it an easy recommendation.

A clever and compelling one-touch arcade blast that's well worth checking out.

A simple concept delivered with gusto, making Burrito Bison's basic butt-hopping an intensely exhilarating ride.

A neat mixture of mini-games that, if it had multiplayer, would be a must download.

A smooth and clever puzzler, Blek has its frustrating moments, but overall it's an impressive, creative package.

Mechstermination Force feels like Cuphead meets Shadow of the Colossus, and it's absolutely worth your time.

Tough, relentless, and very clever, Raid Leader is more about brain power than brute force, but its meshing of RPG with RTS is one to savour.

Gears is a tough, expansive, and fun ball-rolling game with some excellent level design.

Skylanders Superchargers is the most polished Skylanders game to date, packed with new modes, vehicles, and a gleaming layer of polish.

It has a few flaws, but for the most part Linn: Path of Orchards is one of the most intriguing platformers we've played in a while.

Snipperclips is a joyously accessible, deceptively smart multiplayer treat, and a game that really sells the whole Switch philosophy.

An innovative and invigorating twist of Snake's tail, Lightopus is a beautifully conceived and executed adventure.

A likeable tribute to a genre now sadly out of vogue, Swordigo provides a welcome helping of enjoyable action RPG brilliance.

Bejeweled finally comes to the Nintendo DS, providing the addictive match-three gameplay we've become accustomed to.

I never thought I'd type these words into a video game website, but here goes... Sonic Lost World is a very good 3D Sonic game and you should buy it immediately.

Tetris 99 is chaotic, ridiculous, and a little barebones, but it's also a damn good game of Tetris.

A simple but engaging expansion of the slicing genre, KingHunt is an enjoyable arcade blast.

A great Foosball game that anyone can play, with enough packed in that it'll keep you entertained for hours.

Nightmares from the Deep: The Siren's Call is a grand adventure / hidden object experience for fans of The Cursed Heart as well as newcomers to the series.

It doesn't exactly brim with new ideas, but Green Ninja: Year of the Frog is still a worthy addition to Nitrome's catalogue.

Lean, responsive, and surprisingly varied, Monotaur carefully borrows its key elements to craft a fine iOS arcade experience.

Not in the slightest bit sketchy, Max and the Magic Marker gives you a light hand in level design that results in something of a platforming gem.

Boasting charming touches, rammed full of content and even trailing a Wi-Fi infrastructure multiplayer mode, it's an easy recommendation for anyone with an itchy trigger finger.

A brilliantly executed racing sim. If you're after a racing game on Vita, this is what's currently in pole position.

Kirby Mass Attack is one of the most innovative and varied platformers in Kirby's long, diverse repertoire, making it a fitting swan song for the aging DS.

Small World 2 is a quality update to a classic iPad boardgame. Minor AI and auto-match niggles don't detract from the fun of asynchronous play with friends.

Vandals adds some new ideas to a genre that needed them, and it's also an incredible amount of fun.

The satisfaction of rallying and silky slick mechanics make this mode-limited mash-up a real party game of choice.

Not in the slightest bit sketchy, Max and the Magic Marker gives you a light hand in level design that results in something of a platforming gem.

A flawed but essentially engaging glimpse into the past, Dragon Quest VI has just enough charm to see you through.

Bright, polished, and enjoyable, Respawnables rarely misses its mark.

Time Recoil is a brilliant game, albeit one that's even better played with physical controls.

VOEZ plays wonderfully on Nintendo Switch, and offers a premium package where the mobile version required you to buy many songs separately. That might work for you though, if you wanted to keep the cost of entry low. The only slight disappointment with this version, is that you can't play it in docked mode. Sure, that would have been difficult to do given that it's a touch-based game, but it would have been nice to have had a version running that used the right Joycon as a Wiimote. It's not the end of the day though, and if you're a fan of rhythm action games VOEZ is one well worth checking out for its beauty, innovation, and wealth of content for that low price.

Simple and stodgy, Assault Wave offers a good chunk of game, but it loses some of its flavour after a while.

It won't transform your decks, but it does open up a wide range of mouth-watering new options.

Although the novel RPG Story element is less refined than it could be, with over-long cut-scenes and some tedious schlepping, Bomberman Story is a worthwhile RPG and, more importantly, a terrific multiplayer experience.

Emissary of War shows how to make a great iOS dungeon-crawler - it's just a shame there's not more of it.

A neat little sim, but once you get down to the bones of the matter, Pocket Trains is a little too similar to its airborne predecessor.

This match-three-puzzler-in-RPG-clothing adds just enough flavour to spice up its otherwise passable gameplay.

A slight fudge on its predecessor, PES 2011 is made up of largely the same squad, but never reaches the same heights.

ModNation Racer's astonishing editing tool and bucketfuls of personality are let down by lacklustre handling and sensation of speed.

A neat and pretty well put together platformer, Lost Journey isn't brilliant, but it is quite a lot of fun.

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

It scratches all the nostalgia spots but this retooling is a little too unforgiving where it matters most.

Part 3 is an enjoyable continuation of the Back To the Future story, but is still plagued by the technical issues of past attempts.

What Putty Pals offers that few others do is the sort of couch co-op experience that can have you in fits of giggles one minute and punching the air with satisfaction the next. The Switch could do with a lot more of that sort of thing.

A well-designed, wonderfully frantic climber that's thoroughly enjoyable despite doing little to set itself apart from its genre bedfellows.

Sound Ride's unique graphics and music-building hook add a bit of spice to what's otherwise a relatively vanilla running game.

Backyard Baseball '97 is a charming port of the original 90's computer game featuring quirky players, with commentary and intuitive controls.

Although more puzzles and a level sharing facility would be welcome, the ability to create almost any physics-based simulation on the move means that players can do far worse than TinkerBox.

Colin McRae Rally is a fine racer, but it's sorely let down by some forgotten modes and features, and those seriously outdated visuals.

Simple and linear, Sprinkle Islands never allows room to think, but it's reasonably entertaining all the same.

Short but sweet, Scramble With Friends is a game designed exclusively for the socially-enabled wordplay fan. That said, Zynga With Friends has delivered an addictive puzzler for those willing to engage with friends and randoms alike.

Road Master dishes out great graphics and more than enough thrills to overcome its steep level of difficulty.

The most fully featured and deepest entry in the Patapon series so far, but definitely not the most fun or accessible.

Great fun for a while, but frustration will likely set in before the home stretch. Here's hoping a sequel hits the heights that To-Fu can't quite reach.

A fairly satisfying and good-looking slice-em-up that could do with a bit more polish and difficulty balancing.

Quantic Pinball is a well-executed modern take on pinball, but it needs to step further away from the classic pinball structure to really make us flip out.

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

It might lack a little glitz and glamour, but Cubemen 2 is a satisfyingly deep tactical shooter all the same.

Tough but ultimately rewarding, Defense Technica is a surprisingly deep but often cruel tower defence title.

A particularly busy if derivative tower defence game with just enough fresh little touches to make things interesting.

Remember the brawlers of old? This is that. Exactly that, only without the multiplayer you always thought was the best aspect of the genre.

Designed for kids, the well presented Pet Alien provides a gentle puzzle-based experience that should appeal to a wider audience than just those who enjoy the TV show.

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.

Fans of the scrolling-text style of iOOTP Baseball will be in their element in this edition. And while the gameplay itself remains familiar and unchanged, it may not prove quite compelling enough for all but the most ardent slugger fans.

Fast and frenetic role-playing that fixes some of its predecessor's largest flaws, despite the continued reliance on rote fetch quests and cheesy writing.

A thoughtful and well-put-together puzzle game, Reiner Knizia's City of Secrets Pipes is an enjoyable, deep, time-consuming brainbender.

Touchgrind BMX is fast, addictive and enjoyable to play. Sadly, a crushing lack of tricks and some serious control and camera frustrations hold it back from being an essential ride.