The original gamebook has been beautifully revived, and now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its sci-fi peers across all entertainment media.

The kids might pester for anything starring the eponymous goat, but if you already own the original game, resist their nagging. There's nothing new here.

One of the finest action-adventure experiences you can have on any device, let along mobile, Wayward Souls is an essential purchase.

A bland casual puzzler with an irritatingly imprecise control system, FreeDum would seriously bug you if it wasn't so instantly forgettable.

Demolition Crush is a solid physics game that revels in the art of blowing stuff up.

A decent Worms-inspired action-strategy game hampered by sizeable technical issues.

A shallow experience that trades on its difficulty, Laser Hell is certainly a challenge, but it's never that much fun.

A gorgeous looking intense blast of bullet-hell madness, AngerForce - Strikers lacks a little edge, but it's still worthy of your time.

Tough, beautiful, and easy to lose yourself in, Demon Gaze is a polished dungeon crawler with tons of challenge and charm.

What it lacks in physical dimension it more than makes up for in philosophical depth. A dark prince among puzzle games.

Stunt Guy 2.0 is a simple auto-runner that's all screechy tires and crunching fenders, but it fails to engage thanks to a few too many gruelling takes.

Unlikely to entertain anyone older than 14, this pint-sized port is a real disappointment.

Though not particularly original, Battle Gems (AdventureQuest) is a fun play thanks to its colourful graphics and weird sense of humour.

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

Red Remover Blast is a solid puzzle game that will appeal to fans of Red Remover, as well as newcomers to the series.

Although Ragnarok Odyssey Ace falls into many of the same pitfalls as its predecessor, it still offers a fair amount of fun if you don't overthink it.

A decent little arcade game, as you long as you don't expect too much from Icarush you won't be disappointed.

A compelling distillation of everything that's great and good in collectible card gaming, brought to your iPad, for free.

A game that promises much with its cute art style, but delivers a disappointingly flat take on Space Invaders.

A tactile combination of Threes! and match-three puzzler gameplay, SideSwype is perhaps a little too streamlined for its own good.

Hitman GO is a smart and satisfying puzzle game, with loads of content and plenty of variation. It's also totally adorable.

Hilomi is a neatly put-together puzzling adventure that's well worth some attention.

One third rubbish and one third brilliance, The Sly Trilogy reminds us why the series is so much fun to play and why we forgot about it in the first place.

Power Grounds adds an interesting power-up twist to the roguelike formula that excites and frustrates in almost equal measure.

Prisonhood's multitude of bite-sized tasks makes incarceration surprisingly addictive.

It's reasonably well put together, but Breakfinity isn't anything more than another copy of a very old game.

An unabashed celebration of modern otaku culture, Conception II is a dungeon crawler that hits a just right-balance of silly and enjoyable if you don't take it too seriously.

There are some great puzzles in Instantion, but there are some not-so-great puzzles to grind through to get to them.

Doodle God may just be the worst game on PS Vita to date, thanks to dull gameplay and broken logic.

You absolutely must see what Wind-up Knight 2 has to offer, but whether you'll want to commit to the full version or not largely depends on how much you want to play another (very highly polished) auto-runner.

Much like episode two, A Crooked Mile is an uneventful stopgap in the murder plot. But it's still fun to shape Bigby's character, and explore this bizarre fairytale world.

Keyword VS. is a very well-made, but creatively bankrupt word game of the kind that you've played a thousand of before.

A big old bundle of laser blasting fun, Groundskeeper 2 does what it does with style and a cheeky smile.

It's not perfect, and the controls in particular are annoying, but there's a decent management sim here all the same.

With excellent visuals and plenty to do, this demanding game of strategy, management, and combat only appeals to a specific crowd, but serves that crowd well.

Dead End's grindhouse aesthetics are let down by its short lifespan and dead endgame.

Ace Fishing is, as its name suggests, ace, regardless of whether you're interested in fishing.

Light on story but heavy on gameplay, Yumi's Odd Odyssey will as surely delight platformer connoisseurs as it will confound casual players.

Shamefully enjoyable, and somewhat broken, Dynasty Warriors 8 doesn't disappoint.

A disappointingly limited lane-defence game that offers little of the strategic depth fans of the source material would be hoping for, and nothing outstandingly fresh for the rest.

Forest Hunt continues the gripping and well-presented tale which began in Act 1, and while it doesn't bring any groundbreakingly new features, fans will find that it's just as entertaining and action-packed

Tiny Space Adventures tests your memory (and sometimes your patience), but it's consistently cute and enjoyable.

A nice game of tricks and tribulations, traditionalist Trials fans might be put off by Frontier, but newcomers will lap it up.

Unwieldy and unfocused, there's a good game struggling to emerge from the core of Ethan: Meteor Hunter, but it never quite manages to do so.

There are moments here that are pretty solid, but Polar Bowler is built on foundations that melt down pretty quickly.

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

SpellBounders tinkers with the Scrabble template with mixed results, but it's never less than a thoroughly entertaining multiplayer word game.

It might creak a little under the weight of extended play sessions, but there's a good bite of arcade action in 15 Coins all the same

There are certainly a lot of plus points here, but UFHO2 fumbles its execution a little too often to earn a higher grade.

Word Explorer is a generously proportioned word puzzler, but its core anagram-based gameplay isn't quite involved or varied enough to support the sheer weight of content.

Teggle's brisk gameplay celebrates everything we never knew we loved about touchscreens.

An occasionally bright game that's beaten into submission by difficulty spikes and shouty IAPs.

Tappingo is a fresh take on the grid-based puzzle genre and the perfect treat for your brain and fingers when you need to kill a few minutes.

An incredibly rich, challenging and varied sci-fi experience that seamlessly and creatively blends genres into a brilliant whole.

A deep and involving Metroidvania in a superbly constructed world. Fez's appearance on handheld is just as intriguing as when it first hit consoles and computers.

Perfection! is a decently challenging puzzle game that will leave you seeing dots and arrows for some time.

A brilliant, breathtaking, and brief adventure, Monument Valley is every bit as good as it looks.

What little game there is here is pretty enjoyable, but Here Be Monsters HD is a lot less than the sum of its potential parts.

If you're up for another round of card battling fare, or want to experience the genre with a Star Wars skin, then go for your life, but Star Wars: Assault Team is otherwise rather forgettable.

A clever locked-box puzzler that will entertain throughout its brief running time, though the signposting and art direction aren't always as strong as they need to be for such a precise genre.

A standard card-battler with a shooting gallery element tacked on, Deadman's Cross doesn't do enough to distinguish it from other titles, but what it does do, it does well enough.

A sharp and entertaining mix of puzzles and speed, Loco Motors is definitely worth some attention.

Dark Guardians's challenging pace and lack of in-app purchases make it one of the more appealing endless-runners available.

Hailed as a solid-gold classic back in 1994, Little Big Adventure hasn't quite stood the test of time, and this port is hamstrung by ropey controls.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a predictably uninspired action RPG with too little strategic scope and a half-hearted multiplayer element tacked on.

It might not be a game you'll want to play in public, but Deception IV is a unique puzzler that's as dark as it is satisfying.

It has some shocking flaws, but Skater Cat is still just about good enough to be worth a recommendation.

Quest of Dungeons is a solid but unremarkable roguelike that'll keep you engaged for a few hours but not much more.

A beautiful and tactile toy as much as anything else, Shu's Garden promises much for this developer's second - or should that be first - game.

A treat for the eyes and ears, The Collectables mixes top-notch presentation with rote but enjoyable gameplay to good effect.

A rich evocation of the wonders of Westeros, marred slightly by an overly light strategy model and significantly by egregious free-to-play elements.

Prime World: Defenders is tower defence-meets-card collecting. And while there's plenty of meat on the bones, some irksome issues take the shine off things slightly.

Boom Beach isn't a gigantic leap forward for the genre, but it's enough of an improvement over the competition to warrant further investigation.

With its winning mix of puzzles and courtroom craziness, it doesn't take a genius to see that picking this game up is a no-brainer.

A solid and often challenging puzzle game. Its simplistic mechanics aren't varied enough to sustain long-term interest, though.

While oO may have a certain something, it misses that 'one more go' feel that so many twitch-based games emanate, leaving frustration in its wake.

A great-looking sci-fi shooter that sacrifices depth in order to play out a particularly cinematic brand of space battle.

Cardinal Quest 2 does most things perfectly well, but it doesn't carve out enough of an identity for itself to really stand out.

It might not be a challenge, but there's something eminently likeable about Globlins that manages to make it worthwhile.

Word Puttz's free-to-play formula might rankle with word game purists, but if you're looking for casual, light-hearted word play, you'll find it under the sea.

A deeply generic and uninvolving pirate-themed shooting gallery that's destined to flounder in a vast sea of similar apps.

Echo: A Music Game has the faintest whisper of a good idea, but it's marred by simplicity, repetition, and the most annoying wait timer in the history of games.

Cubit lives up to its title as being hard to the core. It's a neat little platformer, but expect little more.

One of the best Final Fantasy games, now with high definition visuals.

A solid and well-presented light strategy game that lacks a little in terms of overall play time.

The story it tells still has the ability to intrigue, and I certainly felt compelled to see it through to at least two of its endings. But when I turned over the final page, 999: The Novel felt like a rough first draft of a promising story rather than an expertly polished final edit.

With some retooling and rebalancing, Amber Halls could have a long future as a roguelike exemplar for folks that frequently find themselves stuck in queues.

A fast-paced, sometimes repetitive but never boring blaster, TriBlaster is definitely worth a shot.

Braveland does a lot of things perfectly adequately, and it's sometimes pretty fun, but that's not really enough to make it stand out.

It's one of the best strategy games you'll play on your mobile this year, and serves as a fantastic example of how to do free-to-play right for a core audience, without compromising on artistic vision or gameplay depth.

PlunderNauts is an attractive ship combat game with plenty of depth. It's a depth you'll have to work hard to reveal, though.

It's what you'd expect from a free-to-play Pokémon clone, but Monster Legacy pushes enough of the right buttons to still be entertaining.

It's difficult to get enthused about Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures: it's largely competent at what it does, but what it does is slow and regularly tedious.

An old-school platformer in the truest sense, Bloo Kid 2 may be thoroughly generic, but it makes commendably few concessions to the attention span-deficient modern iOS gamer.

Roll Back Home has a daring and arresting visual style. Boring and irritating gameplay, however, means this is the worst waste of paper since the Daily Mail.

Dudeski is a fast and fun ski sim that's loaded with charm. This game's twitchy challenge is enough to keep you coming back for more.

Cloud Breaker's sense of focused urgency provides a neat new twist to the block-matching puzzler, but it needs a little filling out and sprucing up to really break through into clean air.

A charming quick-blast arcade challenge, Bounty Rush serves a purpose, but don't expect it to do much else.