A bafflingly overpraised auto-runner that looks good but soon becomes tiresome.

While Ghosts 'N Goblins remains a perfectly reasonable platformer, it struggles to bring anything new to the table other than its innate difficulty made harder by awkward controls.

Trucker's Delight Episode 1 makes the most of its naughty music video source material, but doesn't really add up as a racing game.

There's a decent endless runner here, but despite its twists, it's still just an endless runner.

Jacob Jones 2 offers a rich world, and a handful of fun puzzles. But a brazen lack of content and no advancement in story turns this into a throwaway app.

If you want to sit with friends for an evening and waste a few hours while getting wasted, this is a great way to do it.

Sine Mora EX remains an interesting bullet hell shooter that's only improved by fancier visuals and couch co-op, but the extra content isn't worth it.

A well-constructed social freemium game, but one that becomes more awkward and less appealing as the game progresses.

Claybook is gorgeous and playful, but its core gameplay focus simply isn't compelling.

Not the cheap cash-in you might have feared and yet still a portable game that runs contrary to all the aims of the PC original.

Oquonie is beautiful, unique, surreal, arch, and difficult in at least two senses of the word. Only gamers with a fondness for the avant-garde should bother.

An attractive and highly entertaining shooter, AirAttack is nonetheless liable to be shot down thanks to a lack of manoeuvrability.

This footie sim's quirks and grind will ensure it remains a downloadable curio, but the presentation and humour is something to see.

Batman is a pretty standard Telltale game, marred by a boring main character and writing that's either dull, bad, or overly familiar.

Sonic Mania is a love letter to fans of the franchise, who will no doubt lap it up. But it also feels like a missed opportunity to be what Sega has never achieved before: a truly great Sonic game.

An incredibly exacting endless flyer that may just be too punishing for most gamers to stomach.

Heavy Fire: Special Operations 3D is a decent arcade-style war shooter, though it lacks that winning edge.

A sparse quick-fire boardgame with plenty of interesting ideas, Damn Little Town is just a little too punishing for its own good.

A good choice for the hardcore casual adventurer, but those expecting a revelatory experience like that found in Cyan Worlds's best may well come away disappointed.

At times, Army Corps of Hell is an adrenaline rush of swift tactical fighting. It's also, however, incredibly repetitive and far too drawn out.

It's not the most original title you'll play all year, but it's well-made enough to constitute a decent but forgettable superhero movie tie-in.

BreakQuest impresses with creative level design and novel physics-based play but sadly suffers from fundamental control issues.

There's some interesting ideas here, but Spellcrafter: The Path of Magic doesn't manage to see them through.

This space trader creates an incredible sense of place, then wastes it with clumsy controls and frustrating combat.

While The Inferno's brand of fiendish maze-running possesses a stripped back, old-skool charm, clunky controls and poor animation place the game in a frustrating state of purgatory.

Drop That Candy is tasty, but you probably won't want to stuff your face with it.

While it does what it does very well, Pixel People doesn't have the balance or challenge needed to break the shackles of the genre it inhabits.

Likeable, fun rhythm game that uses clips from Warner Bros' most famous cartoon enemies to spice up the action. Bit simplistic and lacks any outstanding features, but it is universally playable.