Pocket Gamer UK's Scores

  • Games
For 6,041 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 31% higher than the average critic
  • 19% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Tomb Raider
Lowest review score: 10 Angels In The Sky
Score distribution:
6042 game reviews
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Pint-sized Picassos may be enticed by Paint by DS but it would be a crying shame if they were to neglect real-world artistic endeavours in favour of this limp product.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Pixar films are about attention to detail and fun - this game has neither of those things.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A bland and boring shooter with no surprises or fresh ideas within, R.I.P. Rally is an ugly shambles.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Gorgeous graphics and a desperate desire to be like Monster Hunter don't compensate for simple gameplay and clunky controls.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Spy Hunter's poor handling and dire visuals make this one of the least impressive PS Vita titles to date. Even long-term Spy Hunter devotees will struggle to get behind this one.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Gun Zombie 2 adds little to the simplistic target shooting genre, except IAP after IAP after IAP.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Unresponsive, poorly designed, and frankly drab, ProjectSD1 should be left floating in space.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A clunky, heavy-handed, almost mercifully brief mystery puzzle game that falls well short of its lofty narrative targets.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    You can do better.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With controls that make shooting an ordeal, Al Rambone: Hussein in the Membrane is an ill-advised take on the war on terror that is terrifying itself.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Over-ambitious 3D free-roaming stunt-a-thon which ends up being just hard to control, repetitive and completely unsuited to DS.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With little personality, minimal content, and overly simplistic gameplay, HorseWorld 3D: My Riding Horse is headed for the glue factory.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A boring game with little to offer.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Takes what was once a wonderful experience and makes so many development mistakes that even Myst's wonderful story and puzzles can't fix it. Not even the Myst faithful should pick this up.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    If your surname is Moneybags, then you might have enough cash to make Fantasy Quest move at a tolerable pace. But there's no point, because it's an intolerable game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A mediocre game is made infinitely worse by locking away content that's only accessible after umpteen repeats of the same content, or consuming loads of ads.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A remake of an old WarioWare mini-game, Paper Plane is simple, frustrating and almost completely without merit.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A basic and stale RPG that sows few seeds of flair and inventiveness over its vast and tiresome expanse.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Cheesy, linear and super short, and featuring shooting mechanics that feel older than the Old West. You don't need any amount of Mad Dog McCree in your life.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Although Double Shot won't necessarily disappoint fans of the series, and vintage games generally, it's an extraordinarily lazy sequel that trades on the moderate success of a 20-year-old arcade game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Saddled with bugs, greed and mechanical problems, Pixel Starships can't even make the grade as a free base-builder.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A poorly put together dungeon crawler with little personality and bad controls.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Selma and the Wisp is boring, poorly-designed, and no fun at all to play, but it is at least quite short.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A sloppy mess of a game - Slippy Slopes is worth sliding past.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Plodding, repetitive, and uninspired, Farentia showcases all the worst elements of RPG strategy titles.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A rushed production that, regrettably yet predictably, emerges as a substandard game of a substandard film.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Repetitive, uninspired, and a little broken, this freemium builder slog-fest is best avoided.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    There's just so much wrong with Drift City Mobile that it's difficult to know how to write a pithy summation of its faults. Essentially you should (and will) quickly forget that this auto-racer ever existed.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    An absolutely run-of-the-mill click / idle experience, ideal for anyone who's decided to give up games for incessant tapping.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    There are games you played 20 years ago that are still miles better than this utterly vapid licensed cash-in. It's almost insulting to discover how poor this is.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A good idea, an imaginative tale, a scary but heart-warming hero and some lovely childhood memories are all completely wiped out by this atrocious game.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    As for the DS version, it's a thumbs down and prolonged raspberry from us. When the only thing you can applaud is the competent way the trademark music is used, you know you've a stinker on your hands.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    In its current form, it saddens me to say that there is nothing to recommend about Red Riding Hood and the Restless Wolves, apart from some nice music.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Looking for a quick and easy eShop game to occupy your time? Considering Johnny HotShot? STOP AND PUT THE NINTENDO 3DS DOWN
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    An absolute travesty of an experience that should never have been allowed onto the eShop in the first place.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Shoddy conversions of shoddy conversions – some of these weren't worth playing in the first place, let alone again.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    An awful, rewardless gaming experience on just about every level.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Bland, unimaginative, underpowered and insipid, we've absolutely nothing positive to say about it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Sword King is a terrible way to spend your time. Sword King is a complete waste of money. Sword King made me cry.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies - Fight for Middle-earth may be free, but that doesn't mean it's worth your time.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A dastardly effort to cash-in on a genuine indie horror sensation that's as fun as it is terrifying, i.e. not at all.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Little more than an abject demonstration of how micro-transaction abuse can completely destroy the amusement value of a game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Fnger Simulator is an intriguing, tactile tech demo, but that's all. Do not touch.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Golden Compass orients itself amongst the worst of licensed games, failing to do anything notable beyond tarnishing the name of the acclaimed novel it's associated with.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    One Punch Man: Road to Hero 2.0 lacks any kind of imagination or inspiration. This was always meant to be a gacha cash-in featuring OPM characters, and it doesn't even do that well. This game exists to take your money, not entertain you, and you shouldn't even deign to download it.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    While we certainly weren't expecting The Science of Evil to reinvent the wheel, nothing could have prepared us for this hopeless, shambling mockery of a game. Avoid as if your very soul depends on it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    A truly wretched experience that lacks any semblance of gameplay, and can't even shore itself up with graphics that look anything other than ordinary. Awful.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Kick-Ass is the worst game on the App Store (twice).
    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Deal or No Deal is proof TV shows don't always make a good video game. Or even a mediocre one. This is simply terrible – there's not a single redeeming feature in this whole sorry affair.

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