Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam is an interesting take on boarding, but variety comes at the expense of true excellence.

A good-looking and smooth playing adaptation of a cracking card game, but of limited interest without online play.

An entertaining, if familiar, shooter, Velocispider may not be the most original title on the App Store, but it offers up a good dose of dependable old skool gaming.

GT Racing: Motor Academy takes attendance and every conceivable feature and mechanic is here, except bold individuality.

Back to the Future Ep2 HD would be more charming if it weren't for pesky technical problems and performance issues.

It might not be the perfect fit for touchscreen devices, but Metal Slug 2 is still an awful lot of fun.

Fahrenheit was ambitious and innovative in 2005, but ten years later it's just clunky and tedious.

If you've never played a gamebook, Judge Dredd: Countdown Sector 106 is an entertaining, brilliantly designed introduction to the world of dice and bookmarks.

An ingenious, superbly implemented logic puzzler that's sadistic and cerebrally satisfying in equal measure.

An endless-runner with a sense of style and a great difficulty curve, Agent Dash! entices you in with pretty graphics, and before you know it you're hooked.

Whether you wasted your youth on a salty pier arcade with the series, or met Vic Viper for the first time in this review, Gradius will quickly become your pet name for twitch gaming thrills.

While blasting aliens out of the sky can be fun, Star Command lacks the depth of true space sim.

A classical schmup with a branching story path and refined controls. Worth the price of admission for the soundtrack alone.

The first half of Broken Age is charming, gorgeous, and well written. But some might find the obvious puzzles and softer tone aren't quite what they were hoping for.

Quick minds that are after a lengthy challenge of spatial conundrums will be well served with this value-for-money downloadable.

Unassuming apart from its scale, Pinball HD nevertheless shows that pinball is enjoyable on iPad.

A neat little sim, but once you get down to the bones of the matter, Pocket Trains is a little too similar to its airborne predecessor.

Though it doesn't do anything radical with the perpetual-climbing genre, Sir Lovalot is a highly polished example with a neat 3D twist.

Not quite as simple as it should be, Bird Strike is nonetheless a fun-filled arcade game packed with style.

A solid match-three puzzler saved by a recent update, Zoo Keeper DX Touch Edition would benefit greatly from a dash of innovation to help it stand out from the crowd.

Gorgeous to look at, and a heap of fun to play, Monster Wars is a clever but flawed mash-up of tower defence, RTS, and slash-'em-up.

With ultra-competitive multiplayer, thoughtfully designed bonus challenges, and plenty of content to see, PinWar should appeal whether you're a fan of pinball or not. This is a superb offering, especially with mates.

A chilling tale told with economy and intelligence, Home is a tense, atmospheric adventure that stays with you.

Ookibloks is a bright and fresh little puzzler. There's an awful lot to like about its mixture of cuteness and logic.

The ultimate remastering of a classic arcade experience, but one that's just for the fans.

An enjoyable mix of old school shmup and loot-harvesting action-RPG, though perhaps not quite as deep as it would like to think it is.

An engrossing tower defence game that takes a slightly different - if occasionally awkward - route to success.

Just as satisfyingly dumb as it's always been, Samurai Warriors 4 brings a good dosage of new stuff to a slightly tired formula.