Legend of the Skyfish continues the journey with better presentation, controls, and more to do as you continue to see and face familiar sights.

Some annoying quirks remain, but the all new tasks and fun multiplayer modes keeps More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain? top of the class.

Take a break from plumbers, swordsmen, and bounty hunters and set some time aside to discover a classic worthy of that title.

Gordian Quest is one that RPG & Roguelike fans will find incredibly hard to pull away from; however, slight UI concerns and deep gameplay will make this a hard one for many to get to grips with. Wonderfully complex, its biggest sin is doing too much at once.

Mimpi Dreams isn't the most challenging game in the world, but you're going to have a lovely time playing it all the same.

Teacup is a short but insightful adventure about collecting herbs for the perfect tea party. A handy tea encyclopedia teaches you all about the different ingredients in making tea, but most of all, the game teaches you about appreciating the little things in life through the wondrous eyes of an introverted frog.

A sharp and well put together shooter, Gunslugs 2 might be a little too crazy for some, but it's definitely worth a look.

A fast-paced card game that's far more interesting than its source material might suggest.

Starts off as a damp squib, but buy even the cheapest IAP and you'll find a game that really makes a splash.

Don't let its cutesy role-playing-lite stylings fool you; Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales is a quality game that's a blast to play. [JPN Import]

It's impossible to resist the crazy escapades of Transolar Galactica, embodied here in a pointless game that manages to keep you pushing ahead despite all good reason. Captain Trigger would be proud.

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.

Joe Danger 2: The Movie’s oodles of content and its unique platforming/stunt racing hybrid experience makes it an undeniable hit.

A portable horror like no other - Resident Evil Revelations is as sure to frighten newcomers as it is to leave fans both pleased and hungry for more.

Crashlands 2 takes what the original Crashlands had and adds a few shiner layers to it with a new look, tweaked mechanics, and a harsh but exciting world that will take a lot of time to experience.

The simple pleasure of Space Invaders, with changes fit for modern eyes and thumbs. An utter joy to play.

A solid traditional RPG married to a refreshingly modern narrative, shot through with a lovely sense of humour.

Shin Megami Tensei Liberation Dx2 is a great introduction to the series for those new to it, and nice way to get SMT action in smaller bites for fans. Definitely worth playing regardless of whether you've played SMT before or not.

A chilling tale told with economy and intelligence, Home is a tense, atmospheric adventure that stays with you.

No, it won't be to everyone's tastes, but if you're a fan of board games then there's definitely a lot to love here. And if you're a fan of baseball you might understand some of the things the game says to you. Either way there's a good deal of fun to suck out of Bottom of the 9th. Don't write it off if you don't fit into both, or either of the camps, it's designed for. Just go with it, and you might be pleasantly surprised.

A truly beautiful physics puzzler that plays almost as well as it looks.

Skip buying your kid FIFA on 3DS this year, and give your offpsring Inazuma Eleven 3 instead. It's a novel light RPG experience, with all the compulsive collecting of a sticker album. There's also a decent football story at its core.

A snow bound adventure that keeps you enthralled from first to last, Caverns of the Snow Witch is well worth a look.

Thumper doesn't work quite so well on Switch as it does on VR, but it's still worth a look if you can't get the other version.

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline offers over-the-top rush hour action best suited for solo play due to unbalanced, shallow multiplayer.

Deeper than the Grand Canyon and just as expansive, Soul Sacrifice will keep you and a bunch of friends going for some time.

A blistering combination of killer visuals and arresting shooter gameplay, Danmaku Unlimited will send bullet hell fans into bullet heaven.

Skip buying your kid FIFA on 3DS this year, and give your offpsring Inazuma Eleven 3 instead. It's a novel light RPG experience, with all the compulsive collecting of a sticker album. There's also a decent football story at its core.

Sadly, some slight technical issues do mar the experience. The visuals are too blurry, it's not as smooth as it could be, and the HD rumble issue needs to be ironed out ASAP. Look past these issues, and you'll discover a unique and charming puzzle platformer that manages to serve as a love letter to 3D adventures of yore.

Hardcore devotees of Irem's legendary shooter series may balk at the methodical gameplay but R-Type Tactics ranks as an intelligent and entertaining extension of the R-Type universe.

The time you spend with Miles and Kilo is bags of fun though, with the characters bouncing humorous dialogue around that often breaks the fourth wall. Yes, it's a familiar blanket that punches, but it's one that impresses with texture, too.

More Pokemon spin-off delight as Pokemon Conquest proves an entirely enjoyable ordeal.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 is exactly that: a sequel to the original. New levels and new abilities will keep fans pleased, but there's little in the way of creative spark to be found here.

A super sharp-edged, but super enjoyable retro platforming challenge.

Disney Mirrorverse is an action RPG featuring real-time combat and a cast of beloved Disney and Pixar characters. It can be a bit of a challenge for free-to-play players to score more than 3-star heroes, but the creative character designs make each Guardian a joy to play on the battlefield regardless of rarity.

A charming and audacious re-imagining of the tower defence genre. But the pitching for in-app purchases is too obtrusive to be fair.

A clever and endearing mashing up of genres and styles, Does not Commute doesn't always work, but when it clicks it's pretty special.

Kingdom Hearts continues to innovate in the RPG genre ten years on from the original release with [Dream Drop Distance], a generous and exciting addition to the series.

Dead or Alive: Dimensions has a fighting style that fits the system its running on, and some excellent graphics.

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

Carmageddon may have lost its sheen along with its controversial edge, but it's lost none of its schlocky, multilayered charm.

A bright, smart card crawl that will keep you entertained for hours.

Thanks to plenty of tweaks and additions, Mercury Meltdown boils down to a bit more than more of the same. An excellent pocket puzzler.

Fast, fun, and frenetic, its flaws and rough edges are easy to forgive once you're competently zooming through the cityscape at breakneck speed.

A bright and slick puzzler with some excellent mechanics, and imaginative level design.

Square Valley is a city-building puzzle game with randomly generated elements, lovely visuals and relaxing background music. It might take a while for you to get a hang of the lengthy tile descriptions of the portrait game, but it's a great way to pass the time and indulge in a little brain training while you're at it.

A thoughtfully designed casual time waster that benefits from being played in a trance-like state.

It might not be a racing game revolution, but Turbo Racing League offers a lot of fun in a cheery, always entertaining package.

Tower Defense: Lost Earth lives up to its official status and gives the App Store a well-presented and enjoyable tower defence experience.

It's hardly groundbreaking, but iBomber Attack has tight gameplay, excellent graphics and a fair amount of longevity, all of which ensures that it's well worth the asking price.

It gets off to a rocky start, but Hero Hunters is a fantastically fun shooter that will soak up plenty of your time.

A fun, zippy roguelike platformer with a cute premise that belies its high difficulty.

Some primping is all that's needed to make this inventive new approach to music gaming a gold hit.

With its endearing visuals, finger-friendly gameplay and stern challenge, Monster Soup proves to be an excellent iPhone puzzler. Only the lack of play options and that all-important multiplayer mode hold it back.

Swap Cops is a charming, slick, fast-paced casual strategy game, though its gameplay may be too distilled for some.

A fast and fun arcade game with some wicked challenges, Orborun is a decent reinvigoration of a pretty old genre.

A satisfying blast of colourful, creative on-rails shooting that's only slightly let down by an occasional lack of responsiveness in its controls.

A novel abstract strategy game that checks all the boxes for a fantastic digital experience and is charming enough, despite occasional accessibility issues, to win over abstract cynics like me.

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.

Sunset Hills is a cosy point-and-click adventure game that has a lot of charm to it. I do wish that the game itself were a bit clearer, but overall, it's a good adventure!

An ambitious Zelda-inspired adventure offering plenty to get your teeth into. Horn shoots for the stars and, barring a few technical issues, lands admirably close.

A unique puzzle game that adds regular twists to keep itself thoroughly entertaining and playable.

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

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.

A superbly crafted combination of tower defence game and management sim that's consistently thought-provoking, yet never heavy-handed.

A bright and slick kick about that will keep your fingers busy for hours.

A brilliant mix of precision and fun, Mikey Hooks is a worthy sequel to its illustrious forebear.

A showpiece for AR technology, this workout for your brain (and, occasionally, your body) is a downloadable treat no self-respecting Vita-owning puzzle fan should be without.

A sad and sometimes difficult game about how water is the difference between life and death.

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

A charming, cheery, and wonderfully imaginative combination of observational and reaction-based puzzling.

With more tricks than your average magician, Snowboard Hero offers frenetic fun on the slopes, held together by an intuitive career mode that keeps you on track from start to finish.

A well-rounded castle defence riff that livens up the formula with undead physics fun.

Nostalgia stirs memories of classic role-playing with its turn-based battles and familiar narrative themes, yet explores a new horizon with fun airship battles and a sense of adventure.

Well built and easy to pick up, San Juan is an intriguing game of building and trade.

Not what you'd expect from Simogo, but perhaps that's the point. What you do get is an original, compulsive, brain-bending puzzle game.

While it doesn't overhaul the genre entirely, the new additions present in Lich Defense enable it to stand out from the crowd. It's just a shame that so much content remains locked behind a an in-app purchase pay wall.

A huge and hefty basketball experience, NBA 2K15 has its problems, but it's still worth a look.

A fast-paced and often manic driving game. It'd be a crime not to give it a go.

While it might sound like a mush of ideas that shouldn't work together, Aegis Defenders is actually pretty brilliant.

It's simple and brutish, but there's a lot of violent fun to be had in The Gods: Rebellion, and the combo system makes each crunching blow that bit more satisfying.

Gorgeous graphics, easy to pick up gameplay, and a couple of flaws that are easy to look past mean that My Little Hero is definitely worth checking out.

StarDunk is a simple space-themed basketball game that quickly becomes addictive thanks to its short play sessions and competitive online play.

A beautiful little RPG, which is just as great on Vita.

An expansive top-down isometric 3D RPG with evil forces to fight, repeating heroic abilities to unleash, and loot to gather provided your device and internet can take it.

Murasaki Baby plays on parental instincts and our natural desire to protect the weak. A skin-crawlingly tense tour of a twisted imagination.

Simultaneously arduous and irritatingly compelling, Leap Day is another one-thumb cracker from Nitrome.

A more refined beast than its predecessor, Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 is a fitting end to the boy wizard's adventures.

A masterful mix of match-three, RPG, and pirate jokes, Scurvy Scallywags is a brilliant addition to any iOS game collection.

A compelling catastrophe simulator masquerading as a strategy title, Empire is an entertaining game of endings.

A bright, engaging arcade game with enough zip to keep anyone entertained for a good long while.

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

It takes its time to get going, but once it does Surge is a compelling and visually arresting puzzle title.

With its incredible presentation and easily accessible action, Frontline Commando: D-Day ticks all the boxes, although the focus on in-app purchasing can be irksome.

After softening up you with amazing visuals and instinctive controls scheme, Beast Boxing 3D lands the sucker punch thanks to its instantly appealing gameplay - it's just too bad it doesn't have multiplayer.

An interesting mix of action platformer and match-three, plus a dash of humour, Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure is a surprising success.

A brilliant revamp of the original that ups the ante for iOS brawlers, King of Fighters-i 2012 is only let down by its slightly laggy online bouts.

A gloriously inventive combination of Nokia's Snake and Tron's light cycles, Hard Lines includes a dazzling variety of modes and provides weeks of entertainment for short-burst gamers and dedicated score-chasers alike.