If you're looking for some meaningful storytelling in a video game, you will love Thomas Was Alone. If you're after a challenge, though, best to steer clear.

A decent multiplayer mode and loads of extras, but let down by poor control and often flawed design.

So-so graphics, a poor saving capability and too few modes make SimCity DS a distinctly average version of what should have been a much more enjoyable experience.

A workmanlike conversion of a workmanlike card game, but a treat for superhero strategists.

It's fun to see your favourite characters working and fighting together, but the gimmick wears off as you suffer through boring combat and fanfic-level storytelling.

Novel gameplay quickly gets lost in the mix of pop culture pandering and painful load times.

Showcases excellent visuals and engaging gameplay, but is shot down by frustrating and inaccurate controls.

Brick People is high on repetition and noisy spectacle, low on meaningful depth or addictive elements. Kids will embrace it, but it's a shame the gameplay isn't as sticky as the product design. Instead of being a brick flung through the church window of mediocrity, it's just another brick in the wall.

Chop Chop Rocket's competent presentation and gameplay mechanics are not fleshed out with enough content for it to be considered an essential purchase.

Great graphics aren't enough to save endless jumping game Volcano Escape from floaty controls.

Plentiful content paired with stiff graphics make MyTP One Mountain a decent, if unmemorable, skiing and snowboarding game.

A cheap and cheerful destroy-em-up that makes up for in fun what it lacks in elegance.

Snoopy Coaster has the same thrills as last year's Madcoaster, but also the same game design, objectives, menus, sound effects, in-app purchases, shop items, and power-ups.

Without a compelling story or multiplayer it's hard to find a reason worth sticking with the plain strategy gameplay of Hills and Rivers Remain.

Exponential Invasion is an inventive and solid maths puzzler that's just too short.

In visual and gameplay terms, this freemium action title hits the bullseye, but the complete absence of any kind of storyline robs it of purpose.

Despite its name, Starborn Anarkist isn't all that different from other dual-stick shooters. It isn't very shocking in any regard, and it won't change anything about any topic it touches. But it's an enjoyable enough shooter.

A good enough endless arcade runner that you'll tire of sooner rather than later.

A solid endless runner, but we've pretty much seen everything it has to offer before.

Got Cow? is a clever and bracingly difficult physics-puzzler that's been pipped to the post by a more famous rival.

An entertaining, if underdeveloped, physics-based puzzler that's just far too shallow to sustain momentum.

This oddly-placed prequel is a scrappy game with some frustrating puzzles, but it's still an absorbing little ghost story.

It might have interesting ideas, but Blade Guardian buries them under an uninspiring style and repetitive levels.

In attempting to add further RTS elements to the tower defence genre, City Conquest has failed to produce much in attack, leaving an experience that's only half-satisfying.

Apestorm: Full Bananas is only ever fleeting fun, and makes for a mostly forgettable experience.

Glory Days - Tactical Defense is a solid enough tower defence title for the DSiWare service, but doesn't provide much in terms of innovation or variation.

Steins;Gate is a suitable introduction to the visual novel, but content-wise it's certainly not for everyone.

Like the ice cream van you're put in charge of, Ice Cream Nomsters doesn't carry very much produce, but what there is of it has a pleasant aftertaste.