A stunning MOBA that's been made with mobile in mind, but without compromising on the tactical depth or visual splendour of its PC-based influences.

Well-designed characters and some neat ideas are wasted on a slightly wonky tower-defence game.

A stylishly stripped-back and curiously serene arcade experience that has you running on a particularly hazardous cosmic treadmill.

Haste isn't a fresh game, but it's fast enough to sink its claws in pretty deep.

A beautiful little RPG, which is just as great on Vita.

A reasonably playable twist on a few old ideas. Zombie Puzzle Panic has its moments, but it's not engaging enough to sink its teeth in all that deep.

Jellies! is an adorable little color-matching puzzle game with a fantastic style and an interesting arcade-like twist.

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

World of Tanks Blitz offers some of the very best multiplayer you'll find for your mobile or tablet.

It's hard to recommend Civilization Revolution 2 to those who already played the original. But if this is your first dose of Civ, you're in for a treat.

A fast and furious game that makes no apologies for dedicating itself fully to one quick and simple mode. Super Ccatch is the master of its very tiny niche.

A huge, wonderful looking, deep experience, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is brilliant on your own, or with friends.

Go Go Ghost is a perfectly serviceable auto-runner hindered by IAPs.

An extremely simple but fresh twist on the retro arcade shooter, with an interesting release-to-attack premise.

A fun, gorgeous, and well put-together space racer that, despite lacking features, is an absolute bargain for those who take to it.

Love Connection. is rocky at points, but it perseveres and offers a cute and colourful puzzle experience.

An attractive 2.5D auto-runner that doesn't offer anything new, but manages to succeed through sheer variety.

A fun and relaxing puzzler, Paperama is a pretty slow game, but it's fun all the same.

Heli Hell doesn't have the poise of a bullet hell game, and the clumsiness it replaces it with makes it a bit of a slog.

Pokémon Art Academy won't make up for you being inherently bad at art, but if you're interested in Pokémon, and drawing, it's a solid purchase.

The Rhythm of Fighters is quite the odd duck, but it's also interesting enough to keep you entertained for a good long while.

A surprisingly entertaining hidden object game spoiled by an over-bearing energy system and some annoying monetisation choices.

Ministry of Silly Walks just isn't very silly.

A smoother, less angry roguelike experience, Storm Casters ticks enough boxes that it's well worth a look.

Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Universe in Peril refines the classic Lego game formula for mobile play, making for a slightly less ambitious but better fitting experience.

An entertaining if slight arcade blaster, with a dollop of humour and a relentlessly frenzied nature.

An incredibly polished, riveting, and accessible strategy game, but veterans of the series might find it a little over-familiar.

Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake is a funny and charming puzzle collection, with lots of secrets to uncover, that's only let down by some finicky controls.

A solid and entertaining game, Oscura Second Shadow doesn't quite do enough to make it stand out from its predecessor.

Dig out some eShop credits: you're not going to want to miss ye olde Shovel Knight.

A very busy game with so much going on that some might be overwhelmed. Others are likely to become hopeless addicts.

A by-the-numbers endless runner that plays just fine, but lacks any kind of stand-out features to lift it to a higher plane of existence.

1001 Spikes will frustrate, but its retro difficulty is worthy of a seasoned player's time.

An interesting mash of ideas that never quite gels together, Mind Zero rambles on too much for its own good.

Much more than a shooter, PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate is an ingenious game of elemental manipulation.

A sleeper hit in the making, Monster Monpiece's rich battles and complex strategy elements are unfortunately overshadowed by its tawdry artwork and painful fan service.

Overtime Rush is a decent tower defence game that relies too much on grinding.

We've seen games like Dungeon Gems before, but none have been quite as balanced and polished.

A sharply drawn free-roaming action game that combines knock-about combat with a steadily expanding world to explore.

A frantic and relentless hunt-and-peck game that erratically alternates between delirious brainless fun and IAP clogged drudgery. The more you play, the more overt its negative qualities become.

Slow to play, but fun to tackle, this puzzle-platformer is sweetly entertaining.

A colourful but uninspiring little collection of mini-games, twinned with obnoxious ads and irritating game selection limitations.

A cracking bundle of well put together games, Mucho Party doesn't disappoint.

A brilliantly fast-paced arcade kickabout. Tiny Striker isn't all of The Beautiful Game, but it's enough of it that it's hard to resist.

Mecha Ace is a fast-paced text adventure game. It's full of choices that help keep the action interesting.

A frantic and ridiculous arcade blast, Tasty Blue might not fill you up, but it's a decent meal all the same.

A big silly blockbuster of a game that wants desperately to be on something other than a touchscreen device. Godfire: Rise of Prometheus has a meaty bounce to it, but its lack of subtlety will likely be too much for some to take.

A sparse quick-fire boardgame with plenty of interesting ideas, Damn Little Town is just a little too punishing for its own good.

A painfully archaic veneer hides an exciting, unusual, and richly detailed game of timing and strategy.

A deceptively tactical roguelike RPG that offers an immediate yet considered dungeon-crawling experience.

Pigs Can't Fly livens up the flappy formula, but its problems can be more than a little aggravating.

Definitely a better buy than its 3DS counterpart, Hometown Story Pocket is still something of a jumble sale.

Slack controls hamper an otherwise enjoyable and intelligent tweak on the Tetris template.

King of the Course starts out fairly strong, and implements an interesting swing mechanic, but the aftertouch controls ruin the fun as often as they enhance it.

It's a pleasant adventure, but this is still a dog you won't want to take home.

Rainblocks is simple to a fault, lacking the depth and ingenuity to raise it above the ordinary.

A sharp, short arcade experience. Revolve may not stick in your head for long, but it's still good fun while it lasts.

A brief and brilliant arcade leap-'em-up, Jupiter Jump has enough in its rhythmic bounces to keep you going for hours.

The first half of Broken Age is charming, gorgeous, and well written. But some might find the obvious puzzles and softer tone aren't quite what they were hoping for.

Great Little War Game 2 sticks to familiar battlegrounds, but it's still (wait for it) a great little war game.

A fast-paced and relentlessly hard racer, Fluid SE is well worth your time.

Despite minor dictionary niggles, this is a must-have word game for anyone who likes her mobile gaming delivered with a side order of brutality.

A reasonably fun matching game that isn't quite tasty enough to justify spending the time or money necessary to get anywhere with it.

A brilliant port of a brilliant game. VVVVVV on iOS is well worth a first, second, or third download.

Angry Birds Epic is a fun, streamlined, and surprisingly deep RPG, but a dearth of variety and a wealth of in-app purchases will turn off genre junkies.

If you're willing to put the work in, there's a great puzzling strategy game to uncover here.

A warm and welcoming puzzling platformer that's as smart as it is fun.

Glacier Rush only takes a few moments to learn, but it that's all the time it needs to get its hooks in to you.

An overambitious but fascinatingly detailed exploration of modern politics that suffers a little from a lack of direction.

A scrappy and maddeningly intrusive underwater explore-'em-up that seems more intent on plundering your own hidden treasure than revealing its own.

Firefly Runner isn't particularly original, and it won't get your heart racing, but it's a pleasant endless runner that benefits a good cause.

JuJu Ball is by no means a bad game, but it's one that you'll forget about pretty quickly when it's done.

A neatly packaged lite RPG that bounces along pretty well, just don't expect to lose hours with it.

Without hotkeys and precision clicks the formula isn't perfect, but Lemmings Touch is about as good as a handheld entry of the series could ever be.

A promisingly fresh arcade joust-'em-up that's knocked off its stride by a heavy-handed free-to-play upgrade system.

Virus Eradicator can feel more miss than hit, but its biggest problem is that it just doesn't stand out.

Relying heavily on its franchising and not on the quality of its gameplay leaves CN Superstar Soccer on the sidelines.

At its worst a little choppier than you may remember, at its best downright timeless. The port's not perfect, but this is still a great way to play two of PS2's best games on the move.

Pocket Harvest starts out fun and challenging, but it gets repetitive regrettably quickly.

A short sharp burst of arcade fun, Wrong Way Racing doesn't have much to it, but what's there is twitchy fun.

Bubble Witch Saga 2 remains a fun and polished Puzzle Bobble-alike puzzler, but its random reward system and blatant IAP-milking structure prove a little tough to stomach.

Borderlands 2 is an essential purchase. It's as simple as that.

A coin-pusher with a card-battling twist, Dragon Coins is an attractive grind, but grind nonetheless.

Don't let its visual similarity to Tetris fool you. This is a game that stands on its own very high merits.

If you've played a card-battler in the last year or so, you've seen everything Heroes of Camelot has to offer, aside from some spectacularly beautiful art.

An impossibly vast virtual train set that remains as ugly, daunting, and esoteric as ever in spite of a well constructed introduction to the basics.

Controversy aside, Tomodachi Life is a pleasingly directionless life-sim-lite that fans of Animal Crossing should investigate further.

RubPix will keep fans of sliding block puzzles busy for hours, though everyone else will probably want to steer clear.

Outernauts: Monster Battle is an enjoyable monster breeding / battling game that reflects Insomniac's talent as a game studio.

A game that sparks occasionally but never manages to catch fire, Sky Force 2014 is a pretty average shooter in a world where that's not good enough.

A nice compendium of puzzle games, but lacking much of a connection to its TV heritage.

A fast, clinical arcade shooter that’s perhaps a bit too simple for its own good. Still worth a blast though.

A tap-happy roguelike with a puzzling core and a surprising depth, Tales of the Adventure Company is well worth a look.

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

Episode 4 doesn't do much to fix Wolf's bigger problems, but it provides some of the toughest and most enjoyable diplomatic decisions we've seen so far.

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

An entertaining puzzler with a flair of its own, Perfect Paths is an engaging, if not entirely original, way to waste a few hours.

Perfectly pleasant, yet also pretty forgettable. The kind of game you'll very happily work through on a journey home but never think about again.