A brilliant, sometimes maddening mix of a boring sport and a brilliant concept. Just go and play it, yeah?

A hauntingly good extension of the original, Angry Birds Halloween delivers more of the same entertaining physics puzzle play.

Sound Shapes is a short, unremarkable platformer that's transformed into something quite special when mixed with the sights and sounds of its killer line-up of artists.

Three Fourths Home is practically over before it begins, but the themes, characterisation and narrative direction will haunt you for a long time afterwards.

A rich and compelling distillation of MOBA for mobiles, but presents a very steep and jagged face to new players.

A charming confection that's impossible not to like, with stellar production values and solid gameplay.

Simple and infectiously entertaining, Cut The Rope: Time Travel is full of wonderful ideas that will make you smile.

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

The Wii U version remains the real definitive edition, but Rayman Legends still plays and looks great on Switch.

Sacred Odyssey skilfully balances action and exploration for an adventure that's defined by its high quality as much as its variety and scale.

San Andreas is an enormous, funny, varied, and sometimes frustrating PS2 classic that has come to mobile with few compromises and surprisingly good controls.

A competent, though not a convincing enough re-release without online multiplayer and a wider slate of control options to bring a new generation into the flock of Doom faithful.

A smartly designed, surprisingly taxing puzzler that makes the most of its elegantly simple core.

Toy Story: Smash It! is an expertly created 3D physics-puzzler with a brilliantly knockabout sense of fun.

Zenonia 2 is a fun, yet far too faithful sequel that offers only cursory changes and not the substantive improvements necessary for it to be a great follow up.

Simple but well-tuned fighting gameplay, combined with some great humour, make Mage Gauntlet worth conjuring onto your iPhone.

An incredibly polished, riveting, and accessible strategy game, but veterans of the series might find it a little over-familiar.

A manic game that requires performance enhancing drugs to keep up with it. We suspect it's an audition piece for The Last Starfighter.

Grim Fandango Remastered fixes a lot of the flaws of the epic original, but reminds us why we never actually completed it in 1998.

A strategy game that can be enjoyed by strategy buffs and noobs alike. Practically essential for Vita owners.

A loving tribute to Advance Wars that's generous with its time and skillful with its execution.

Banzai Rabbit doesn't try to conceal its source of inspiration, but the end result is a fantastic recreation of Konami's classic Frogger – albeit one with a few regrettable camera niggles.

A blend of arcade pace and tactical nuance makes Linkoidz an innovative match-three puzzler, which is notable in and of itself.

Gem Keeper's wonderful presentation and rock-solid fundamentals are undermined by a difficulty level that veers all over the place, but this is still a polished and enjoyable tower defence experience.

Still in a league of its own, the premier portable management sim is back and better than ever.

Mutant Mudds remains a fun yet frustrating experience on iOS, with its quirky plane-switching mechanic going some way to making up for its frustratingly exacting 2D platform gameplay.

A neat pushing together of ideas that pretty much comes off. Puzzle to the Center of the Earth definitely has its moments.

A brilliant distillation of the dungeon crawler, Card Crawl is well worth a look.