A dull hidden object game that's somehow simultaneously bland and unpalatably garish.

Disappointing point-and-click adventure with the odd decent puzzle but one that feels too basic, with too few hooks to really stand out, meaning it fast becomes a chore to play.

Lacking much of the tone that made the movies great, Ghostbusters is about as fun as being forced to slowly trudge through slime, and being overcharged for the pleasure of doing so at a faster rate.

A port with potential ruined by obtrusively implemented IAPs, Tales of Phantasia is only for those with deep pockets or saint-like levels of patience.

Typically shabby movie tie-in that will have you running for your mummy.

WALL-E doesn't annoy or offend, but looks terrible and doesn't entertain either, and that leaves it only fit for landfill.

Too easy and too slow, aside from the wonderful visual design, there's very little in AMF Bowling Pinbusters! to sustain your interest. Lack of touchscreen play only serves to add to the disappointment.

A dull little game that makes being a deity feel decidedly average, Fury of the Gods isn't worth your time.

Even if you leave to one side its overtly aggressive freemium pricing scheme, Plants War is still an unpleasant and bland slog.

Breed creatures, collect different types of that creature, ensure they're happy, get frustrated with wait timers, exit, delete.

Danger Boat is a perfectly pleasant, but completely uneventful entry in a very tired genre. There are at least seventeen zillion better endless-runners on the App Store.

The Caligula Effect: Overdose has one good idea, and it squanders it with a bunch of other terrible choices.

A bit more entertaining than reading a textbook, only not as effective. Stick to Minna no Nihongo and Japanesepod101.

Impressive handling and a decent package of race events completely undermined by technical issues and clumsy execution.

League of Mages pits you into one-on-one magical combat with real players, but its flat grind-heavy gameplay lacks any hint of magic.

A game this beautiful deserves a lot more than the rambling plot and uninspired gameplay that brings it to an almost immediate halt.

Like a dodgy pilot episode, Stargate SG1: Unleashed is badly written, poorly paced, and really quite dull.

A painfully simple pair of ideas that are executed poorly and endlessly recycled.

Fairly bland but nicely illustrated shooty zombie shenanigans, largely wrecked by dreadful controls and an inevitably dispiriting upgrade system.

Though it captures the tone of the series well, Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock is an otherwise lifeless title with little in it to recommend.

Like a blackout at the Super Bowl, NFL Quarterback 13 leaves you wondering where all the football gameplay went.

The release of Urban Champion as a 3D Classic makes us wonder if Nintendo has gone stark raving mad.

A sluggish, un-fun endless-runner that adds little to the template, Riot Runners is better off avoided.

The components for a decent game are present and correct, but many of the good points are hacked to death by poor level design, frustrating gating, and unresponsive controls.

There's a neat idea here, but Moto Joe just isn't good enough to see it through.

Random Runners adds nothing new to the auto-runner genre, except frustration, unfair design, and grinding for currency.

Good-looking but ultimately vacuous – and I'm not talking about the celebs - this 2D shooter is a one-dimensional disappointment.

A sad and sloppy platformer with little to recommend it, Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is best left to the annals of history.

Buggy and unresponsive, NBA 2K12 isn't worth the money.

A good idea on paper, but simply too complex for mobile.

Even with a few added features thrown into the mix, at its core Dawn Tanks is pretty much just another 'artillery' game.

Math Academy looks the part, but is deceptively boring, and dumb to boot.

Paper Toss with an oddly shaped ball, Rugby Kicks is simple fun for the first ten minutes, and simply dull thereafter.

Devouring Stars' main crime is that it's boring, and that's unforgivable on the App Store.

Servicable, if typical, strategy mechanics are ruined by an aggressive free to play model and terrible presentation, although pass and play is worth a brief try.

Mixing cute with boring, Tamagotchi Connection Corner Shop quickly becomes so routine you should be paid £5 an hour to play it.

Micetopia plays like a game where the odds are unfairly stacked against you. It doesn't feel like you are a hero who is meant to be saving these villagers or even has a chance to really make it far without spending tons of time grinding and upgrading. Even then, some areas have checkpoints that are too spread out to feel fair.

Despite a wave of innovations manages to be less enjoyable than the near decade old GBC version. Less of the Wacky and more of the wack.

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.

A boring, tired rehash of a much better game, Grindcore isn't worth your time.

More roll-playing than role-playing, this game promises much and delivers little more than a quick RPG combat fix.

A nicely executed comic book stapled to a sub-standard action-platformer, Bravoman: Binja Bash has its priorities all wrong.

Overall, Sheep Squad isn’t a game for me. It’s possible but those that play a lot of the game Worm might really enjoy it - especially with the adorable range of animals to play with and their cool weapons, however the UI being the way it is makes the game just too challenging and hard to understand for me. Also there are a lot of pop-ups.

A disappointingly half-baked piece of video game entertainment that should be returned to the chef immediately.

A boring endless runner. Its biggest crime is that we've seen it all before.

It's too short, feels tired and repetitive – not unlike war, Fighter's Battle seems mostly futile.

With wonky controls and lacking even the most basic of features, Warm Gun is a multiplayer-only FPS that should be left alone.

Quantity over quality, this suite of gambling games fails to capture the thrill of throwing all your money away on the single spin of a wheel.

A throwback of the worst kind. Post Brutal is clunky, stupid, and only fun to laugh at.

At best, it's a bland, repetitive Silent Hill-skinned dungeon-crawling grind. At worst, it's a vacuous vandalism of a treasured horror brand.

A potentially interesting shooter that's let down catastrophically by its underwhelming controls.

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

Dungeon of Genesis is a dungeon crawler with some potential, but potential is all it has.

Panic Drop is the video game equivalent of having an endless stream of knock off Escher paintings slammed repeatedly into your face.

The attempt to make Line Rider into a DS game fails thanks to fiddly controls and the fact it's not as fun or convenient as the web version.

WRC 3 is roughly thrown together, and lacks any of the basic requirements of fun.

Fumes Stunt Racer pays tribute to a gaming classic, yet fails to recapture the original's magic through a combination of poor handling, harsh linear progression, and glaring omissions.

The building blocks of solid strategy are in place, but Battlefield Moon drops the ball when it comes to presentation and gameplay; the fact that it seems to run at a snail's pace doesn't help matters much, either.

Lacking in character and bloated in fetch work, Unlimited Cruise SP is a clumsily translated import that, just like the game's missing second episode, should have been buried at sea.

Maybe if it were possible to figure out what's going on this game could reveal its hidden depths. As it is, it simply strikes out.

A good idea executed poorly, Capcom Arcade offers little worthwhile gameplay.

It might look the part, but This is Not a Ball Game is undone by some serious gameplay deficiencies lurking beneath its magical facade.

Drift Mania Championship is nothing more than a poor racing game with limited options and terrible controls.

By no means an awful platform game, but certainly a mediocre one. There are far better options on iOS.

Less an adolescent social simulation and more a lesson in pandering, Brooktown High fails to make the grade.

Mediocre stealth action is the order of the day in this forgettable sequel.

The seeds of something great are lurking, but most of the good's clubbed out of this game with the subtlety of a baseball bat to the head.

Watchout has a nice enough style to it, but the twitchy gameplay still feels very been-there, done-that.

Championship Manager 17 is a poor management sim.

Crimson Keep's knock-about brand of roguelike ARPG proves fundamentally flawed, with clumsy combat, repetitive levels, and a clunky core menu system.

It's like a Lethal Weapon knock-off story in a Blade Runner knock-off world, all filtered through the pure madness that is a Kemco RPG. If that description sounds awesome to you, drop a few bucks on this one. I doubt you'll be disappointed that you did.

You never feel in time with the music, the scattershot levels will infuriate those looking for their next auto-runner, and the IAPs are horrendous.

Slow to start and laggy at best, NFL Pro 2014 is more disappointing than an afternoon spent watching the Pro Bowl.

Dull, by-the-numbers platformer that fails to exploit either George's or the DS's unique strengths.

Too broken to survive a real assault in the mud, MonsterTruck Rally feels half finished, shackled by one too many bugs and patchy coding.

A dull and uninspired mess of a physics puzzler, Rabbids Big Bang is one to avoid.

A clunky, uninspiring mess, Arel Wars 2 is only saved from the doldrums by an entertaining multiplayer component.

The dreamy visuals may cast a spell over some players, but Wizardlings is little more than a charade. The gameplay is dull and you'll have to spend lots of cash to keep things moving at an acceptable pace.

While you could do a lot worse in terms of fundamentals, there are much better handheld film tie-in offerings out there, and it's probably in your best interests to avoid this one.

A game about tapping the screen. And that's about it, really.

Disney continues the trend of crap movie games with this poorly made and cynically produced retread of a game we're all very sick of.

The worst PSP version of Need for Speed to date, Need for Speed Undercover feels like a muddled attempt to revive the spirit of past glories.

A capable game destroyed by inexcusable loading. Heavy petting has rarely been less appealing.

An interesting idea that becomes a not particularly interesting game.

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.

Slay the Beat has an interesting concept but doesn't offer enough content to keep you interested beyond a single playthrough. The soundtrack is limited to just a few songs, only a few types of enemies appear over the course of the game, and several recurring bugs make it hard to think of this as anything other than an extended tech demo.

Like driving a milk float through treacle with occasional bricks to steer past, The Drive: Devil's Run isn't fast, but it might make you furious.

Even if your one goal in life is to play a game where you control a hippo dressed as Santa, it's probably still worth giving Air Hippo a miss.

Measured against the fun of previous Madden mobile titles, Madden NFL 25 is more disappointing than a fumble in the end zone.

It might be cute, but Oh Hi! Octopi is tedious, finicky, and almost entirely incomprehensible

An unexceptional endless racer that's competent enough for a few minutes busywork but far from the best the App Store has to offer.

Whether it's stealth, driving or shooting, the game feels limited and unengaging, is hampered by unresponsive controls and completely lacks the necessary polish of a modern production.

The Uncertain gets off to a poor start in its first episode, thanks to poor writing, uninspired puzzles, and a wonky camera.

A dull, repetitive, and not very clever game of managing and destroying a country.

There might be a good game somewhere here, but Little Amazon feels far too cynical to recommend.

We're positive you'll want to avoid MGS Portable Ops Plus: a lacklustre single-player mode, unfriendly interface, and minimal new content make it comprehensively inferior to its predecessor.

Noble Nutlings tries to achieve that elusive Angry Birds-style charm and simplicity, but ends up being frustrating, expensive, and simply rather joyless.

A nicely presented physics-based platformer made utterly infuriating by erratic controls and unavoidable death.