Despite the occasional balancing dilemma, Gwent is one of the best deck builders on mobile; smart, fast-paced, and most of all, free.

Despite a couple of questionable design decisions, this is still a solid arcade shooter that offers hours of entertainment.

This retro-inspired, stripped-down sports management game can compete with the best; an excellent new football game for mobile.

This may have been something on Nintendo consoles, but it has far stiffer competition on mobile. Not the best.

A considered and worthy homage to the action-roleplaying genre, here’s hoping that the rest of the series expands on these good ideas.

If you can live with the creaky interface and resist overusing the auto-battle system, then you will discover that Disgaea is packed with great ideas and challenging battles.

End of the Universe tries to mash space shooting and roguelike randomness onto the small screen, with mixed results.

Tiny Touch Tales does it again: strongly recommended for thorough thinkers and masochists.

An ambitious, narrative-driven kingdom management game that doesn't quite manage to pull its two distinct halves together as well as we'd like.

A solid adaptation of a smart, abstract strategy title, loosely inspired by Mahjong, but with lots of novel ideas and interesting variants.

Though its champion system could use a little work, Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower is an excellent turn-based strategy game with plenty of potential.

Though not the most exciting game, and somewhat compromised by its currency, Conflict of Nations: World War 3 has a decent amount of strategic depth.

Overall, we can’t help but recommend BTS Universe Story to literally everyone. It’s not often that you come across something so compellingly bonkers, and we can’t encourage you enough to download it just to experience the main story. However, the story creation tool is so easy to use that you may end up sticking around to create your own, increasing your Creator Rank in the process.

The Survivalists isn't a great survival game, but it does have the redeeming quality of being a fairly fun retro adventure to play with friends.

Despite somewhat frustrating camera controls, and a sorely missed split-screen mode, Far: Lone Sails is a smart and enjoyable landship-management game.

Like its predecessor, This is the Police 2 is a vacuous and ineffective crime commentary. It’s mechanically more sound, but still feels overstuffed with new features that are largely disjointed and unnecessary.

Though its rhythm component is a little lacklustre, Reigns: Beyond is still a great choice for anyone who wants a funny sci-fi take on the roguelike card genre.

Though it treads old ground at times, stand-out action sequences and appealing simplicity make it hard not to enjoy The Pathless.

Bloodstained is an inventive twist on the Castlevania formula, but a lack of visual quality and control frustrations prevent this port from wholly doing it justice.

Animal Farm's struggle against cycles of corruption brilliantly captures the novella's sense of powerlessness, even if it does stick a little too closely to the source material at times.

Though it doesn't remaster the game, how can you improve upon perfection? Knights of the Old Republic 2 is still one of the best RPGs ever made, and now it's on your phone.

Despite its charming presentation, Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon is an undercooked roguelike dungeon crawler with poor combat and pacing.

Despite a few somewhat interesting battle elements, Lost Crusade is let down by its strict adherence to the mobile base-building formula.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated is a blast from the past, like standing on some unexploded ordnance, or the interest that accrues on an unpaid parking ticket.

Nuts is a simple yet fantastic game that will forever make you afraid of squirrels and the secrets they are hiding.

The Captain is Dead is an overwhelming, exhilarating, and yet occasionally tedious digital board game that simply takes no prisoners.

Cozy Grove will definitely scratch the itch for anyone looking for a new life-sim. Although the gameplay can feel slightly limiting, it will keep you coming back each day for more.

Project Cars Go isn't the car sim that some people might have wished it was, but despite lacking the breathless thrill of the best racing games, it still manages to be compulsive enough to keep your fingers engaged.