RoboSockets: Link Me Up is an enjoyable drop action puzzler let down by its stiff difficulty following a gameplay tweak in the latter levels.

Broken Age is still charming and gorgeous, but its second half is let down by recycled assets, utterly obtuse puzzles, and a flatlining narrative.

A facsimile of everything that made Crazy Taxi great. Crazy Taxi: City Rush is fun, but it's not a patch on the original.

Much like its predecessors, WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 possesses plenty of breadth but precious little depth. A fun but dated take on the sports-entertainment franchise.

The lack of choice over controls, cars, and tracks in Scrap Metal are a disappointment, but excellent handling and fun game modes make up for this shortfall.

Melodrama isn't enough to carry Apollo Justice, a game that feels considerably more weighed down by dialogue and little actual gameplay to speak of than its predecessors.

Inotia 3: Children of Carnia is competent and unexciting, a by-the-numbers level-grinding game that lacks the polish and energy of its betters.

Different, satisfying but also limited.

This remake will struggle to appeal to new players or nostalgics with its obtuse puzzles and budget presentation.

There's not a lot here for parents, but the children of those parents will find their first flight game here, and probably have a jolly good time with it.

Monster Strike squeezes a bunch of puck-launching into a fairly familiar free-to-play model, but it isn't that much fun.

Aralon: Forge and Flame suffers from the same issues as its predecessor, and it's a bit less forgivable five years later.

Charming children's game with a decent turn-based battle system and some neat ideas. It's a little short-lived and environments aren't too large-scale but nothing that should trouble younger players or stop them enjoying the faerie fighting fun.

Armada: Galactic War has the makings of a fine online real-time strategy game, but it�s simply not ready for battle yet.

Red Star boasts astonishing production values and challenging gameplay, but the tacked-on touch controls and unforgiving difficulty are frustrating.

A reasonably entertaining endless-runner, Pac-Man Dash! could replace its fading star with anyone else and still have the same effect.

Kids will love Phineas and Ferb, especially if they're into the TV show, but older gamers will see through its generic puzzle platforming.

A mechanically competent but rather soulless exercise in economic management.

Cast of the Seven Godsends isn't great, but if you've got a retro itch to scratch it's worth a look.

A nicely presented casual physics puzzler that would benefit from stacking up a few more layers of complexity.

A simple, ugly game that doesn't really add much to its predecessor, Farming Simulator 14 still retains some of that ungainly charm.

With a group of like-minded friends PictoImage is worth its weight in gold, but sadly the single player portion of the game is far less essential.

Catacombs mixes classic hack 'n' slash gameplay with twin-stick shooter mechanics to pleasant effect, but it lacks the depth and variety necessary to fight its way to the top.

A cute and clever physics puzzler that can't quite provide the accurate control system to facilitate its creative solutions.

Toad Rider might position you as a toad with attitude in this slick endless-runner, but its lack of originality makes it more of a chameleon against a backdrop of so many similar games.

Excellent controls and great graphics don't make this endless-runner feel like anything more than a routine jog.

It's solidly written with some fresh ideas, but overall Artificial Superintelligence feels lacking and unpolished.

Assassin's Creed II: Multiplayer is a novel take on online deathmatch yet its core movement and combat mechanics are frustratingly unrefined.