A wonderful game that's battered into submission by an overbearing payment scheme, Fightback has the moves, but it uses them all wrongly.

Egglia is a gorgeous if uninspiring JRPG that really doesn't do enough to justify the steep price tag.

Pixel Hell has great retro style and 8-bit sound design but is condemned by its own wrath-rousing bugs and luck-of-the draw mechanics.

Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 tries to seduce you with its quirky 3D visuals, but at its core this is just a bare-bones mini-game collection that can only sustain the briefest of relationships.

A cynical reskin of Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth will be a disappointment to Tolkien fans and experienced freemium city-builders alike.

Plodding pirate play wrapped in an overly familiar gameplay structure that somehow still manages to mess up some of the basics.

A stripped-back and accessible approach to card battling is Rocket Patrol's selling point, but also its weakness as it lacks the depth and variety necessary to hold your attention.

Zombie Slayer Diox digs its own grave, with poor controls and a serious lack of enjoyable content.

Being a castaway is an interesting premise, but too much of Lost in Blue 2 is repetitive, dull and fundamentally frustrating to be fun.

For all of Overkill 2's obsession with weaponry, there isn't enough of an actual game in here to keep you interested.

There are some nice ideas here, but in the end there just isn't enough peril.

Another perfectly adequate arcade hopper with nothing of substance to set it apart from its peers.

Subway Surfers never jumps the tracks, but it never goes off the rails either.

A tough, slick auto runner, but one that doesn't quite feel responsive enough to drag you through the inevitable frustration barrier.

With misplaced difficulty spikes and limited replay value, an otherwise solid puzzler is outshone by others in its genre.

The classic original shines through in places, but its greatness is mostly clouded by a poor-quality port.

A disappointingly limited lane-defence game that offers little of the strategic depth fans of the source material would be hoping for, and nothing outstandingly fresh for the rest.

A noble effort to bring a PC-style dungeon-crawler to iOS, but Iesabel makes the wrong kind of compromises.

A limp revival of a lost iOS classic, Swords & Poker Adventures offers an interesting mix of RPG, card game, and strategy ingredients, but the preparation has been fumbled.

A well-intentioned attempt to bask in some of Angry Birds's reflected glory, Chicken Raid is a physics-puzzler which is at best mildly distracting and at worst downright broken.

It's relatively entertaining but more as a result of its set-pieces, one-liners and occasional clever detail than its gameplay, which is uninspired.

An interesting concept, but this Tiny Wings clone fails to capture any of the speed, thrills, and excitement that made the flightless bird so entertaining.

While it doesn't commit any serious gaming crimes, Streetbike is half-baked and deeply pedestrian.

Ironworm is a good game at heart, but a poorly balanced freemium model seriously undermines its gameplay.

There are some nice ideas in Perfect Angle, but in the end they don't add up to an interesting enough experience.

EDGEBobby2 possesses some mildly interesting puzzle gameplay, but few will want to soldier through the terrible presentation and awkward controls in order to sample the goods.

Trailblazers is a great idea poorly executed, thanks to wonky controls and no real sense of achievement.

Chibi-Robo returns in his most predictable and forgettable adventure yet: a by-the-books collect-em-up romp.