MonsterCrafter is a unique monster-battling game that forces you to show a little too much love to your critters.

Jump Trials Supreme is nippy, bite-size, and polished to hell. Well worth a gander, especially if you love your speedrunning platformers.

A little gem that's a lot of fun in short bursts, but pay too much attention to No Brakes Valet and the wheels start to fall off.

A bag of surprises inextricably bound together around a well-told story.

An almost perfect distillation of the last great console Ridge Racer with spot-on handling and a stunning engine. Ridge Racer Slipstream is arguably the best arcade racer on iOS.

There's a good story at the heart of Legacy of a Thousand Suns Mobile, and it tries its very hardest, at every available opportunity, to stop you reading it.

A gripping dice-rolling adventure, Island of the Lizard King is another great Fighting Fantasy gamebook.

An interesting mash of ideas, styles, and polish, Colossatron just about manages to pull it off.

This intriguing dystopian adventure is a solid stealth game with smart touch-friendly controls, but it's let down by a lack of variety and a painfully short running time.

Cut the Rope 2 is a more vibrant, more dynamic game than the original, but one that's clearly aimed squarely at existing fans of the series who just can’t get enough of its candy-swinging gameplay.

A flat, unremarkable strategy game that does little to stir the grey matter, AntiSquad doesn't do enough to really interest you.

Provides the essential functionality you'd expect of a boardgame adaptation, but absolutely no frills at all and only limited quantities of fun.

A polished version of a solid game, Ski Safari: Adventure Time doesn't deviate far from the promise of its title.

A solid adaptation of a tense, rollicking boardgame. But this digital version suffers a bit without the immediacy of face-to-face play, and from a startlingly similar competitor.

Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God is equal parts fun and frustrating. The bright characters and fun world of Sorcery Saga make the remorseless autosaving of this hardcore dungeon-crawler easier to swallow.

A bright and bouncy arcade brawler that never feels tight or deep enough to warrant the repetition.

Galaxy Run takes Run Roo Run to into the vacuum. Expect to trip on your mistakes over and over again until you're driven to the brink of space madness.

How the developer managed to get the controls for Angry Birds Star Wars on Vita so wrong, we'll probably never know. What we do know is that you should probably give this one a miss.

You'll like Cyro. You might not be any good at it, but you'll not be able to dislike it.

A clean and clever puzzler with some neat ideas, Gregg isn't perfect, but it's definitely worth a look.

Doki-Doki Universe is a feel-good video game. It isn't going to challenge you, and there are some technical issues, but it'll still give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

A fun but lightweight shooter that sets out to recreate the thrills of an arcade light gun game for your iOS device.

The ultimate remastering of a classic arcade experience, but one that's just for the fans.

San Andreas is an enormous, funny, varied, and sometimes frustrating PS2 classic that has come to mobile with few compromises and surprisingly good controls.

Gun Zombie 2 adds little to the simplistic target shooting genre, except IAP after IAP after IAP.

Excellent presentation, and an enjoyable concept go a long way to concealing the fact that this is a pretty standard free-to-play management game.

A brilliant sequel that expands the lore and scope of its predecessor, The Room 2 is a game that everyone should play.

A hollow experience that could be so much better, Angry Birds Go! never feels fair or fun.

A befuddling game whose creator attempts to mask its incoherent world and sloppy game design with suggestions of intrigue and profundity.

Bravely Default breaks from the traditional JRPG mould time and time again, providing dozens of hours of clever adventuring.

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

Once you look past Jetbee's cute exterior, it becomes obvious how devilishly high the odds are stacked against you.

Division Cell is an attractive casual puzzler, but its wishy-washy concept and vague gameplay means it never truly gets its hooks into you.

A bland and unremarkable game, Clash of Puppets isn't broken, but it's far from memorable all the same.

A mediocre platformer made for a good cause, Nightmare: Malaria starts out challengingly but quickly becomes frustrating on account of the maddeningly clumsy controls.

Puzzle Coaster is an enjoyable game with which to wind down, though the controls are more likely to stump you than the puzzles.

It's not as pretty as the home console version, but Injustice: Gods Among Us - Ultimate Edition is nonetheless a tactically complex and rewarding fighting game.

Another engrossing and well-written character-driven drama from Telltale. An opportunity for more varied gameplay has been missed, but it's a strong start to an interesting series.

It has its moments, but Space Hulk stumbles too often to really recommend.

A very good version of a great game, the 3DS outing of Swap Force is the portable port fans have deserved for a long time

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

A big silly game full of repetitive combat and simple missions, Assassin's Creed Pirates somehow still manages to be fun.

Rote but decent mini-games are married to impeccable presentation and an adorable lead to create something quite special.

Want a harder version of Clash of Clans? With super-quick load times and clever social elements? Battle Command! is for you, then.

Just like Adol, you've already seen most of what there is on offer in Ys: Memories of Celceta. The immense world and fast-paced combat will easily win over fans of action-RPGs, though.

Sand Flame is a sluggish, unattractive, and just plain bland third-person shooter with grind-heavy combat and a wearisome IAP model.

Doctor Who: Legacy is a real treat for Whovians, and a satisfying but derivative RPG-puzzler for the rest of us.

A tired-feeling game in a sloppy new set of clothes, M.U.L.E. Returns is difficult to love.

When something looks to have all the ingredients of strategy excellence, you can't help but be a bit sad when it turns out to be more shallow than you'd hoped. As it stands, though, Super Tank Poker boasts brilliant music, an excellent sense of style, and the most entertaining, explosive approximation of poker I've ever seen.

The Inner World is a charming and inventive game. It will appeal to ardent fans of mid-'90s point-and-click adventures. Clumsy translations, overlong conversations, and technical hitches prevent it from reaching greatness, though.

With Burn the Rope 3D, Big Blue Bubble may not quite add a whole new dimension to the original game, but it does successfully develop the formula with tighter controls and more interesting level design.

Stick It to The Man! contains all the humour of a Tim Schafer game, mixed with some intuitive controls, and a wonderful melding of platform and point-and-click genre norms.

Once you are gripped within Zuki's Quest field of gravity, you won't be able to let go without a fight.

Space Chicks is great fun, though the action can get crowded at times. It boldly goes where no endless-runner has gone before, and the genre is better for it.

Packed with action, intrigue, and gore - and excellently told and illustrated by Wallis and Chalk, respectively - Gun Dogs could well be Tin Man's most accomplished gamebook to date.

A well put together and enjoyable puzzler, Let me Loose doesn't have enough to raise it above the rest of the crowd.

Slingshotting beetles at wood is more addictive than it sounds. And for free, you might as well try it for yourself.

A fun and clever action game, Darklings shows how much can be accomplished with a touchscreen control system.

A-Men 2 is enjoyable in moderation, but the trial and error gameplay soon makes for a rather frustrating experience.

Taking cues from Sonic, Mario, and other platforming greats, Jett Rocket II is an enjoyable, if flawed, variety-filled adventure.

A strangely flat JRPG experience, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years is one for fans of the series only.

A dungeon runner with an intriguing aesthetic, Demon Tribe asks you to invest a lot of time and patience into it to peer down into its obscured depths.

A shallow and unconvincing portrayal of a virtual life, Hatch has about half an hour of content, but days and days of repetitive and unrewarding chores.

An entertaining and gorgeous platformer, Icycle: On Thin Ice is as smart as it is fun.

A good premise that falls a bit flat, Team Monster might be worth a few hours of play time but lacks the depth and polish necessary to make it an easy recommendation.

A great-looking and highly promising spin-off to Flick Kick Football that trips up on bitty gameplay and an irritating funding system

A challenging and gorgeous game, The Rivers of Alice is a mysterious adventure that some will adore.

Big Action Mega Fight! pens a love letter to the beat-'em-up genre. Then, it sets that letter on fire and rams it down your throat

An enjoyable mashing together of shooter and runner, Strike Force Heroes: Extraction won't go down in history, but it'll keep you entertained for a while.

Friendly Fire! gives a subtle but effective prod to Clash of Clans's take on strategy rather than a full-blown revolution, but it's focus on real-world locations and revenge attacks equips it with an arsenal worthy of warfare.

A lot of love has gone into this Mega Man homage, as evidenced by its attractive 2D world, but the simple mechanics of running, jumping, and exploring just aren't of a high enough quality.

A simple, ugly game that doesn't really add much to its predecessor, Farming Simulator 14 still retains some of that ungainly charm.

Don't Shoot Yourself! is guaranteed to murder you again and again, but its unique design and high challenge level should thrill bullet-hell fans looking for an epic foe.

If you’re a sucker for cheap puns this simple adventure game is great fun, although the replay value is fairly limited.

Stellar Wars is a solid sequel to Legendary Wars, righting some of the wrongs and providing a captivating new setting for the strategic action.

Half gamebook and half action RPG, Joe Dever's Lone Wolf is one adventure that fans of either genre will enjoy from start to finish.

Castle of Illusion combines old school challenge with impeccable presentation to create a fitting tribute to one of the 16-bit era's finest platforming classics.

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.

A superb re-creation of a popular and unusual Dungeons & Dragons board game, with excellent usability, tough AI opponents and little multimedia tweaks that really add to the experience.

Add this to the increasingly large pile of iOS games marked 'sort of like Pokemon, but not nearly as good'. Aside from the stupendously good soundtrack, there's little to get excited about here.

Mario Party: Island Tour will provide you and a bunch of mates with a great evening of laughs, but most of the time you'll be laughing AT it rather than with it.

A strange and intriguing game, Morphopolis has its problems, but it's interesting enough that you can mostly look past them.

A brilliant skate sim with a surprising depth, Touchgrind Skate 2 is well worth the time and effort it takes to master.

Like a rabbinical sermon, Shivah is short, thought-provoking, and raises a lot of questions. It's got terrific puzzles, too, but that doesn't really fit my clever analogy.

Max Axe provides a smashing good time, though it would be even better if the axe-chucking element offered a bit more speed and accuracy.

Often simplistic but rarely simple, this rhythm-action game nails what it sets out to do with enormous style and panache.

This strategy sequel builds on the essentially solid foundations of its predecessor and is good value, but it only rarely offers any serious challenge or engaging thrills.

It may not be the work of the original Blur team, but Overdrive captures enough of the magic of its predecessor to make it a worthwhile download - although be prepared to dig into your pockets to purchase in-game currency.

Bouncy, flouncy, and quite a bit of fun, this over-the-top brawler delivers equal measures of fan service and classic brawling gameplay with wanton glee.

Utterly phenomenal. Tearaway is inventive and joyous in equal measures, making for one of the best adventures this year, on any platform.

An attractive and vast racing simulator that largely holds its own against the Real Racing series, but which requires an awful lot of hard work (or expenditure) to make any progress with.

A hugely entertaining shooter that works brilliantly on touchscreen, Neon Shadow is a must-buy for anyone who likes a blast.

Monsters Rising is eccentric, repetitive, attractive, and fussy - often all at once. It's interesting and often enjoyable, but flawed.

A technically superb port of an excellent fighting game, the absense of modes to practise in and lack of caveats for new players will sadly confine this to a niche audience.

Football Manager Handheld 2014 remains the best football management game on iOS, but it’s a big fish in a small pond.

The controls for Deadly Bullet take some getting used to. But once you get the hang of things, you'll be immersed in bullet time.

A mixed bag of brilliance and frustration, Super Lemonade Factory 2 is still worth a look.

Whether or not you believe WayForward is an indie saviour for the Nintendo 3DS, there's no denying that Regular Show is the studio's worst release.