A fresh and exciting take on the autorunner, Chameleon Run is an awful lot of gorgeous fun.

This puzzle game with a heart is a splendid endorsement of the genre and the DS.

A clever and challenging spin on the tower defence genre, overlaid with an elaborate science fiction schtick which doesn't outstay its welcome.

Battle of the Bulge is as cold, brutal, and unforgiving as the titular conflict, but it's also one of the top choices for hardcore iPad strategists.

A sprawling, ambitious, and intimidatingly deep mobile management game that gives the fans precisely what they wanted - just not quite in a fluid enough form.

The 3DS gains itself another must-have title – a solid combination of timeless racing and robust online multiplayer that will be enjoyed for years to come.

A beautifully designed, relentlessly inventive space oddity with genuine heart.

Patient players might enjoy this cute action-puzzler, but control and design issues will leave others burning with rage.

Dragon Quest Builders 2 is an inventive and engrossing sequel, offering a significant, graceful expansion of scale.

A vast, lonely game about space and time and death, Out There is by turns funny, exciting, and fresh.

Indeed, it's somewhat ironic that only now, with the integration of Wi-Fi, Pokémon has become the community game it's always pretended to be. Casting a retrospective eye upon the series, it would appear that every game since the series started in 1995 has just been a level up. This, finally, is the real deal. [JPN Import]

The Pillars of the Earth is a detailed and rich narrative adventure with a few irritating audio goofs that break the immersion.

Blessed with instantly appealing gameplay, engaging presentation, and plenty of long-term challenge, Super Mole Escape is a must-have download.

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

Solid, simple, and effective controls are the basis for an entertaining one-touch experience.

Kairosoft continues its management game dominance with Mega Mall Story: our addiction levels beg for mercy.

A wonderfully put together game that manages to take the best elements of two genres and squish them together into a cohesive whole. Highly recommended.

There's an interesting idea here, but Hundreds just isn't inspiring enough for you to want to stick around to find it.

A decent shooter retooled into something approaching a classic. Buy with confidence.

A slick endless runner that borrows the best bits from its contemporaries but fails to inject any new life into its meticulously assembled corpse.

Solid card-based strategy and tactics result in a surefire hit for fans of the Catan persuasion.

A confidently executed and extremely stylish puzzler with a heavy reliance on its innovative ribbon-swiping mechanic.

A classy conversion of the latest Phoenix Wright game that makes up for a certain lack of freshness with a high degree of polish.

But lying at the heart is the same solid gameplay that was popular in the nineties - unforgiving at times, but a shining example of what makes the series great.

A tough, generously proportioned retro 2D platformer package - with a decent match-three puzzler thrown in as a bonus.

Full of blood and death, Minigore 2: Zombies is a brief blast of gibbet-fuelled fun.

Come for the extreme violence, stay for one of the best single-player experiences in the genre. Mortal Kombat is back and brilliant.

It owes much to Trials HD, but Bike Baron is one of the most addictive iOS games around.

A brilliant and original game that tests your dexterity and your brain power, Micro Miners deserves your attention.

A brilliant digital version of a brilliant card game, Magic 2014 is every bit as impressive as its predecessor and adds more to the mix, too.

Antihero gets mobile board gaming in 2018 off to a really impressive start. It's fun, it's fast, and you're going to lose a good deal of time in its skullduggery and underhand activities.

A thrilling combination of fantasy novel and RPG, Sorcery! offers a wonderfully fresh take on interactive fiction.

A marriage of new variety with classic action yields a worthwhile union.

If you're okay with making your own fun, and delight in recounting homespun stories, then Terraria is the game for you.

A tremendous port of a great indie game, and a must-buy on iOS.

Turbo Dismount is a single-note game, but it plays that note painfully well.

Space Invaders may now be the unfashionable side of 30 but it's still able to mix it up with the best modern gaming has to offer. This is a superlative modernisation of a classic game.

A mobile game that thinks outside the box, and does it brilliantly. Expect to be hearing about Clash Royale clones in the not-too-distant future.

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is a gorgeous, amusing, and challenging turn-based strategy that's easily the best exclusive on Nintendo Switch so far. I'm just as surprised as you are.

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.

Blue Defense: Second Wave! is amusing when played to fill a free minute or two, but it lacks the depth needed to encourage extended play.

A fast-paced, gorgeous endless space-racer that showcases everything that's good about mobile gaming.

Not much has changed since Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes came out in 2015 and that's mostly a good thing. Whether you're playing through the campaign mode or prefer taking on your very own bombs in Free Play mode, it'll keep you on your toes. There's no major need to pick it up if you've got the game on another platform already, but at such a low price it's hard not to recommend it to liven up social gatherings.

2XL ATV Offroad dresses up controls quirks and a shallow Career mode with phenomenal graphics.

Slow turn-based racing makes Disc Drivin' a mediocre game that lacks fun and excitement.

A title-winning performance from Full Fat - this is flicking brilliant.

A well made blast of quick dodging fun, Chocohero lacks the balancing needed to make it a classic, but it's still worth picking up.

Skullduggery! has a clever control scheme, some brilliant ideas, and a lot of retro charm.

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

A brilliant spacial puzzler with some intriguing ideas that works perfectly on mobile.

Another excellent entry in the Lumines canon. It might not be the most original, but it's still an awful lot of fun.

A mash up of old concepts in a brand new way. Even if the idea of a puzzle RPG makes you balk, you need to give this one a go.

A beautiful underwater adventure - the four-year wait was worth it.

Deathsmiles mixes up the formula to drag in bullet-hell fans and lowers the barrier to entry to encourage newbies. Everyone with a passing interest should try out this smart, compulsive and thrilling blaster.

An entertaining platformer with a decent chunk of content, Cordy 2 will keep you playing for a good while, but it doesn't bring anything new to the platform genre.

A brilliant game that's full to bursting with bright ideas and new ways to play.

Lara Croft: Guardian of Light is a fast-paced adventure full of challenging puzzles and formidable foes.

A love letter to Pokemon past and present, that's also an incredible game in its own right.

It's been a long hard road but DS owners finally have a football game that they can be proud of – FIFA 09 is this season's most improved player.

Campfire Cooking is not only visually striking, it's also relaxing, endearing, addictive, and offers up a real variety of challenging puzzles to enjoy.

This psychedelic space shooter is an acquired taste, no doubt, but those that 'get' its quirks will adore TxK.

While the prospect of matching three of more balls isn't going to win any awards, Spinzizzle is delightfully original and represents an interesting, highly playable spin on the genre.

Thanks to charming presentation, tight rhythmic gameplay, and keen replayability, Tiny Wings is well worth flapping onto the App Store for.

A stylish, well-intended hidden object game, Time Geeks: Find All! undercuts its attempt at innovation with fundamentally misguided design.

Jelly Cars 3 is an addictive combination of driving and physics-based platforming that manages to overcome one or two minor control issues.

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

A series of five taut, well-written character-driven vignettes, that provide a perfect reason to reenter the world of The Walking Dead.

Ingenious in every aspect of its design from visuals to controls, this is a new generation of platformer that will earn a permanent place on your home screen.

A bright and ingenious combination of mechanics that'll suck you in and refuse to let go.

There's a lot of over-the-top violent fun to be had here, and while it's not the best version of the game, it still holds its own.

A brilliant, sometimes maddening mix of a boring sport and a brilliant concept. Just go and play it, yeah?

A hauntingly good extension of the original, Angry Birds Halloween delivers more of the same entertaining physics puzzle play.

Sound Shapes is a short, unremarkable platformer that's transformed into something quite special when mixed with the sights and sounds of its killer line-up of artists.

Three Fourths Home is practically over before it begins, but the themes, characterisation and narrative direction will haunt you for a long time afterwards.

A rich and compelling distillation of MOBA for mobiles, but presents a very steep and jagged face to new players.

A charming confection that's impossible not to like, with stellar production values and solid gameplay.

Simple and infectiously entertaining, Cut The Rope: Time Travel is full of wonderful ideas that will make you smile.

Bayonetta for Switch might not be the best version, but it's well worth playing for the first time.

The Wii U version remains the real definitive edition, but Rayman Legends still plays and looks great on Switch.

Sacred Odyssey skilfully balances action and exploration for an adventure that's defined by its high quality as much as its variety and scale.

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

A competent, though not a convincing enough re-release without online multiplayer and a wider slate of control options to bring a new generation into the flock of Doom faithful.

A smartly designed, surprisingly taxing puzzler that makes the most of its elegantly simple core.

Toy Story: Smash It! is an expertly created 3D physics-puzzler with a brilliantly knockabout sense of fun.

Zenonia 2 is a fun, yet far too faithful sequel that offers only cursory changes and not the substantive improvements necessary for it to be a great follow up.

Simple but well-tuned fighting gameplay, combined with some great humour, make Mage Gauntlet worth conjuring onto your iPhone.

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

A manic game that requires performance enhancing drugs to keep up with it. We suspect it's an audition piece for The Last Starfighter.

Grim Fandango Remastered fixes a lot of the flaws of the epic original, but reminds us why we never actually completed it in 1998.

A strategy game that can be enjoyed by strategy buffs and noobs alike. Practically essential for Vita owners.

A loving tribute to Advance Wars that's generous with its time and skillful with its execution.

Banzai Rabbit doesn't try to conceal its source of inspiration, but the end result is a fantastic recreation of Konami's classic Frogger – albeit one with a few regrettable camera niggles.

A blend of arcade pace and tactical nuance makes Linkoidz an innovative match-three puzzler, which is notable in and of itself.

Gem Keeper's wonderful presentation and rock-solid fundamentals are undermined by a difficulty level that veers all over the place, but this is still a polished and enjoyable tower defence experience.

Still in a league of its own, the premier portable management sim is back and better than ever.

Mutant Mudds remains a fun yet frustrating experience on iOS, with its quirky plane-switching mechanic going some way to making up for its frustratingly exacting 2D platform gameplay.

A neat pushing together of ideas that pretty much comes off. Puzzle to the Center of the Earth definitely has its moments.

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