There's a good idea here, but it loses its way too early on to really recommend.

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.

The FIFA Street idea has potential but unfortunately the execution is disappointingly sloppy. If you desire soccer entertainment on your DS, we recommend you stay off the streets and pick the standard-issue FIFA instead.

There's a solid enough puzzler here, but Shapes!! doesn't really have enough going for it to wholeheartedly recommend.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 possesses appealing visuals that give it the swagger of a prize fighter, but the botched controls and anaemic fighter roster expose the game underneath as a featherweight with a glass jaw.

Goes all-in with its action-packed shooter gameplay, but a short campaign, limited multiplayer support, and a stack of shortcomings call its bluff.

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

Generic action, performance problems and a lack of direction thwart any chance of Etolis: Arena becoming a twin-stick classic.

Despite nice graphics, 3D Bio Ball suffers from technical problems and poor execution that make it unfit for play.

A classic example of a quality game almost ruined by ham-fisted free-to-play elements. If you don't mind regularly splashing cash though, then the core game can be a lot of fun.

A deeply ordinary endless-runner that frustrates due to its lovely artwork and promising dream world premise.

Pocket Legends Adventures has a solid RPG at its core, but it's wrapped up in painful amounts of grinding and waiting.

Gem Racers shows promise, but this stone could use a lot more polishing.

Forget about calling Ghostbusters. Call a priest to exorcise this game of its broken controls, repetitive missions, and lame driving sequences.

Spirit Camera is a nice concept but one that's a little too demanding to be easily enjoyed. It's full of neat spooks and tricks but there are far cheaper and better ways of getting your freak on.

A grind-heavy card battler, with high production values, and even higher costs if you want to play to a decent level.

While it does have some nice ideas, TEC 3001 piles them on to quickly, and too haphazardly, to really recommend.

A lack of new ideas isn't always a bad thing, but Combat Arms: Zombies couples its undead fetish with broken controls and poor design.

Dull and clumsy, Iron Man 3 feels more like a simulation of a slightly drunk jog than a superhero game.

By turns sadistic and capricious, this twisted puzzler has its moments, but leaves a nasty aftertaste.

Dark Knight is a pale imitation of the Arkham games, with boring combat, cheap presentation, and dull missions. It works, but it never thrills.

Great in theory, Assassin's Creed Rearmed is awkward and plodding in execution.

It might be ugly, stupid, and often unintentionally hilarious, but Die Hard is fun enough that for whatever brief period of your life you waste on it you won't mind.

Street Fighter 4: Champion Edition doesn't really work on mobile. One to give a miss for now.

Planting role-playing elements in the original set up, Fruit Juice Tycoon 2 is a game that never truly works as one package.

A simple, one note space simulator that gets very old, very fast, and fails to save itself from the yawning oblivion of the cosmos.

There's a decent enough game struggling to get emerge from Dragon Storm. It's just a shame that the developer doesn't seem to want you to find it.

Cubic Ninja tilts towards the bargain bin with awkward controls and maddeningly silly level design.

A retro remake with a real sadistic streak that fails to bring anything other than frustration and annoyance back with it.

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law flies in the face of habeus corpus, holding a funny animated series hostage to a smattering of bad jokes and non-existent gameplay.

A reasonably captivating casual puzzle premise squandered by poor pacing and monotonous level design.

Monty Python's Cow Tossing is a mediocre physics puzzle game that earns more points for style than substance.

Fire & Forget The Final Assault is a curiously flat and uninspired resurrection of a relatively obscure Amiga game that somehow fails to raise the pulse even a smidgen.

A casual puzzle game that's clinging so tightly onto the coattails of Angry Birds that it can't help but fall short.

You'd be forgiven for mistaking Picross e2 for the original, so similar do they look. Here's hoping for something new in the next instalment

In trying to make a game based on the movie, they've ended up making a movie based on the movie. It's not as good as the real thing.

Devious Dungeon is a woefully simple RPG-platformer that quickly becomes about nothing more than grinding for money and levels.

Despite the optimistic title and sharp presentation, this weak Angry Birds-alike needs to be benched for relying on luck rather than any b-ball talent.

Surf's Up uses its licence well but flawed execution means it fails to get the pulses racing. Fans of the film can dive on in, but the rest of us will have more fun back on dry land.

A middle weight strategy title of distinctly middling quality.

A mix of FarmVille, Clash of Clans, and any other popular freemium builder you care to mention released in the last couple of years, the only thing Epic can call its own is its licence.

Trial by Survival fails to realise the potential for cautious exploration and surprise discoveries in such a post-apocalyptic scavenging setup, and includes an ill-suited twin-stick combat system to boot.

The Breakout clone Brickzors doesn't beat the original.

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

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

An attractively presented arcade climber that's seriously undermined by frustrating controls and unadventurous design.

Poor controls and curious track design stifle a compelling concept in this disappointing intergalactic racer.

A fun concept that feels a bit rushed in execution. Keep an eye on it for future updates, as it might be a good game someday.

There's a decent puzzle-platformer in here, but it takes too long to grind out the game's currency to unlock later level sets and see it all.

In trying to add a 3D twist to the Angry Birds premise, Picnic Wars ends up losing the addictive simplicity of Rovio's masterpiece.

A timid and tame adventure, Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time is neither a pulsating puzzle or a fitting tribute to the franchise that adorns its title.

One for fans of the film only as charismatic visuals are not enough to mask problematic controls and monotonous gameplay.

A merely adequate Temple Run clone in pretty much every way, Run'n'Gun passes the time but fails to ignite.

While there are occasional flashes of what might have been, Tin Man Can is too bland to recommend.

There are some strong ideas here, but in the end Trixel Rocket is just too frustrating to recommend.

Like a Boss doesn't do enough with its setting to set it apart from the rest of the crowd.

Maria the Witch tries to offer relentless challenge in the same vein as Retry, but neglects to incorporate the stuff that Retry work well.

While episode two has some better puzzles than before, Jurassic Park is still a barely-interactive rollercoaster ride that's more about watching pretty cutscenes than actually playing a game. With its premium price tag, it's very tough to recommend it.

An utterly unique if disappointingly shallow exploration-based shooter.

Secret Files: Sam Peters's sloppy mobile port makes it a difficult adventure to recommend.

A tediously straightforward jump-and-thump. Its splendid presentation isn't enough to paper over its lack of variety.

There are some neat ideas in Xeodrifter, but they never come together to make a coherent whole.

Proof that you should never judge a book by its cover, Galaxy Pirate Adventure's sumptuous visuals can't make up for its shallow, repetitive gameplay.

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

There's a big idea in Tempest, but it gets lost in the swells and eddies of its empty seas.

A retro feast for the eyes and the ears that's let down by sluggish, unreliable controls and damp squib shooting.

A cute tower-building game that does its best to hide its tedium under cute graphics and simple mini-games.

There are plenty of gear-based puzzle games out there, but A Mechanical Story's multi-part puzzles mesh with its gentle graphics and soundtrack to deliver a particularly memorable entry in the genre. Wind it up and give it a whirl.

A broken version of one of the finest electro-rollerblade games ever made, Jet Set Radio is a disappointing coda to a gloriously multi-coloured legacy.

dream:scape weaves a compelling tale, but it's a real slog to reach the finish. Promising, but ultimately disappointing.

Assault Vector is a slow space blast for an hour or two, but it's all too easy to crush your foes after a dozen upgrades.

There's some fun to be had with Spelunker Party, but unfortunately there's also a lot of frustration as well.

A rip-off of Plants vs. Zombies which boasts new ideas but sadly lacks the conviction to employ them effectively, Asterix: Total Annihilation fails to do justice to the long-running character.

Star Trek Tactical Assault is a limited strategy combat game with a few nice Star Trek touches, but after several encounters, hypersleep may beckon.

Innovative and imaginative use of the iPhone here, and an interesting social experiment and experience. Bounden's unforgiving nature too often erodes fun and leads to frustration rather than beauty and elegance, though.

If you're a JRPG addict, then Mystical Chronicles is worth a visit. There are, however, plenty of better alternatives on the PlayStation Store.

A jumbled game that never sparks into life, Hay Ewe has some nice ideas, but they never get to shine through.

While there are some standout moments in Cracking Sands, all too often it feels like it isn't quite finished.

Trading on its licence and some scraps of humour from the Simpsons table, The Simpsons: Tapped Out is a bog-standard city sim with little to recommend it once you get past the Groening gloss.

A beautiful on-rails shooter that delivers furious deep space combat on a presentational front. Sadly, its grasp for strategic action doesn't quite work and those underlying mechanics simply can't support its repetitive framework.

A big idea that flounders at almost every turn, Fate of Nations is too frustrating and slow paced to be really entertaining.

The hand-drawn animation is superb but Dragon's Lair II doesn't offer anything new over its illustrious predecessor, and in fact feels like a less appealing game due to its nonsensical plot.

Limited in both scope and ambition, something that even sticking half the movie in at the start of missions doesn't mask.

RETSNOM promises great things, and has good moments, but is ultimately trite and not all that interesting.

Gravity Duck is cute and clever, but never surprises and rarely poses a challenge. All in all, it's a bit of a lame duck.

Beautiful but slim and unexciting, Hard Racing is a title you'll want to steer clear of.

A standard endless-runner that's hampered by its dodgy controls, lack of social features, cheap deaths, and painfully unfunny humour. Verdict? Jog on.

Lack of instructions, bugs, and a weak sense of history bedevil what is, at heart, an interesting and accessible strategy game.

A fun if familiar concept that is hamstrung by wonky controls. Might be more fun following a round or two of updates.

V4 offers players a wealth of content, but little of it is compelling. A decent combat system and beautiful graphics aren't enough to overcome a bloated upgrade system, poor voice acting, and a generic gameplay experience.

Memopoly has an interesting idea at its heart, but its barrage of adverts and repetitive gameplay make it hard to enjoy for long.

A dull shooter wrapped in an angry freemium model, Gunner Z is enjoyable for a while, but it soon fades.

There's a great and interesting game buried inside Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, but its energy system ultimately kills it.

While the theme is fun and the graphics are nice, Office Jerk is a poor-man's Paper Toss.

Cars 2 features some surprisingly unique stealth sections, but is let down by the awful controls and terrible racing action.

Gal Metal is a great idea that fits well on the Switch, but sloppy pacing and a crushing difficulty curve make it hard to recommend.

Compelling enough at first, this sports management sim doesn't have the hook(shot) required to keep you invested it in for the season.

Brothers in Arms 3 is an enjoyable shooter with lots of content and smart controls, but its buried under so many IAPs it feels like a hilarious parody of free to play games.