It's a pleasing game of cat and mouse, but despite some extra web-slicing tools, does feel a bit one-note. It's damn tricky, too – an early wrong move will leave you scuppered in a checkmate scenario. We told you they were evil.

Sure, it's yet another tower defence game, but a surprisingly fresh and delightful one.

The Sims Medieval is far less open-ended than its predecessor.

It's a pity developer Halfbrick was hypnotised by DreamWorks's cash, because a deeper Desperado could have been a fantastic Fruit Ninja sequel.

A game that's at odds with itself. If it had given either of its major components the attention they deserved, we'd be recommending the game without hesitation. But with both sides of it half-baked, it fails to excel.

The problem is that escaping death is eventually impossible. From a fun, challenging beginning, having you gleefully wrestle a bike to the end of madcap courses, Bike Baron descends into a gruelling, joyless battle of wills: you against a sadistic games designer who favours obscene precision over all else, and doesn't provide the tools (an on-screen speedo, say) that would enable you to succeed.

Be mindful, though, that beyond the visuals, the game offers little new, so don't expect to still be playing it in a year's time.

The game works best when it's at its most absurd, and you can squeeze extra joy from some levels by being nutty. Sure, you could give someone a haircut using scissors, but a chainsaw is much more fun!

Often in gaming, details matter, and it's here Running Sheep falls short. The controls aren't tight enough, and too many levels hide floor tiles behind pillars. Worse, you're chucked right in, with no chance to plan.

SplitAppleWe never want to meet this game's star. He's bonkers. It's one thing to be a fan of archery and set up a target. It's another to fashion a madcap contraption that wheels a target along a washing line, or to pepper a grassy plot with pop-up targets.

So if you finished the likes of League of Evil and Mos Speedrun (see Tap! four and five, respectively) at your first attempt, this is tougher, but platform-game weeds need not apply. (Sob.)

True to the original, puzzle-solving and survival rely on brutal hair's-breadth accuracy and timing, enjoyment of which hangs on your nostalgia quotient. Vintage gamers will lap up the cryptic cut scenes and tricky puzzles, but newcomers… consider yourself warned.

Of course, the game's stark simplicity means it lacks depth and perhaps longevity, but we reckon it'll always be fun for a quick blast.

But tilt to move and directional fire (that demands you hit multiple targets with single shots to survive) and tap to jump too often feels like juggling while already juggling. This drags the game down from a must-have to a guarded recommendation.

Full marks on a level are achieved by hitting two targets: number of taps and speed. These goals can be met during separate attempts (thankfully, given that the game seems to expect you to solve a puzzle within a second of seeing it), but repeating levels just to get our speed scores up did get a bit dull.

You can play Shadowgun on your iPhone as well as your iPad, and it doesn't fare too badly here either because it uses the whole left and right sides of the screen to control running and aiming, unlike N.O.V.A. with its tiny joystick.

Clearly, Mr Papi needs to lay off the meat.

The controls are twitchy, but we quite liked one of its few innovations – a wings power-up that can be deployed by madly tapping the screen as your tiny ninja is about to plummet to his doom.

But a 3D twist – jumping platforms surround a spinning tower – gives fans of the genre something new to tackle.

The game is tougher than Doodle Jump, demanding that you rapidly position your monster above the next coin, but it's rewarding when you manage to complete a level.

The five stages play with classic Namco arcade games in an amusing way, the graphics are rich and well-defined, and the controls are tight. This is just as well, given the relative toughness of the boost sections.

At its best, then, this is Spy Hunter and Burnout's highlights combined; at its worst, it's frustrating drudge-work. A pity.

You get plenty here for your cash, and a two-player option saves even the poorest events.

While only diverting for a limited time, this is a nice little nostalgia trip nonetheless.

It's almost great – it just needs an extra spit and polish before we can wholeheartedly recommend it.

Being able to spend credits to level up your weapons makes Siegecraft able to stand up to the Viking horde, but it's still far from the best catapult title around.

The problem is, this task is all there is, and while you can fine-tune tactics to better your score, it's frustrating to have to wait until powers are unlocked every game.

It looks lovely, and while you're on track it's all very – yes – nice, but it could have been something much more compelling.

Another slightly cynical but neatly executed take on the GTA format.

Come on Sesame Street, kids these days expect more – so where are your sharing options and monster games?

Movement is done through swiping in your intended direction – it's nicely simple, but imprecise. Sometimes there are small monster-like creatures, which come out to play at night.