We have a warmness of affection for Surface Rush, but nothing stronger than that. It proves that you can elevate the coin-pushing games of your youth to a full-blown video game, and it doesn’t skimp on the levels or game modes.

Mothmen 1966 is one of the better visual novels to have popped up over the last few years. It has a great sense of atmosphere, tone, and characterisation, whilst the subject matter is also clever, mixing fact and fiction well.

What Room-C Games have created in The Hand of Merlin is pretty special, mainly due to the fact that there are so many paths to take, the abilities are random, and because it’s challenging in the right kind of way.

There is nothing pro, gymnastic, or simulator about Pro Gymnast Simulator. But, some gamers will live for this kind of stuff.

Redout 2 may not be for everyone, mostly due to the level of skill required to play, but for fans of the series it will go down like a fine wine… a very fast fine wine.

Stick through things and ensure the fix is actioned and you’ll find that Deliver Us The Moon, and the story itself, is interesting, if not a little predictable.

There’s a chance that newcomers will get a bit lost in what is required with Lumberjack's Dynasty, put off by the grind. But stick with things and this is a good relaxing lumberjack experience, that has the added fun of life-sim implementation.

Unless you are a rabid Blade Runner, you’ll want to steer clear of Blade Runner Enhanced Edition.

If you are looking for an old skool game with an old skool challenge, it’s right here in Jetboard Joust. If you prefer your games to look like something from the 21st century, this won’t be for you, but for us older folk, it's like a stroll down memory lane.

Long Live the Queen is an odd one. A visual novel with delusions of grandeur, it folds in some kingdom management and lesson timetabling with mixed-to-poor results.

A relentless volley of J-pop bangers, the setlist of MUSYNX is a lesson in quality and quantity. And while MUSYNX may be simple, it plain works.

Ultimately, Quintus and the Absent Truth sets out to be a horrifying tale, but doesn’t do anywhere near enough to put fear into the player.

Given the premise that focuses on a police officer doing their job, Autobahn Police Simulator 3 should be appealing. The reality is that the mechanics can't keep up with the ambition of what the game wants to do.

There's a great, highly-original idea in Of Bird and Cage - it is that which I like, much like a concept album in game form. I love the ambition and audacity to even try it.

For long-time fans of Outriders, the introduction of Worldslayer is good news, with new stuff to go and hunt and new levels to play around with. It is short, but it’s still enjoyable

I have no major complaints about Raven’s Hike. It’s a simple game built on a simple mechanic, but it does it well.

The puzzles can verge on the sublime, and the prospect of a season pass and new escape rooms makes us slobber with anticipation. We could arch an eyebrow at the story and controls, but ultimately it’s hard to escape just how clever Escape Academy is.

There’s no doubting that we’ll be returning to The Legend of Bum-bo. We love its cast of Bum-bos, with their cheeky, meta-bending takes on match-four puzzling. But we’ll still be cursing the designers as they gleefully take toys away from us, denying us progress, and offering only measly opportunities to build better Bum-bos.

LumbearJack is easy to write off as a game simply for kids. However, give it a chance and you may just learn something as well as having a smashing time in the process.

Perhaps the best way to play Toree’s 3D Platformer Collection is chronologically. Imagine it as the scrapbook of a couple of game developers ****who are inching, game by game, to the one they were made to make: an N64 3D platformer that could sit among the console’s best. Playing this collection, they still have a little way to go.

Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series presents a bit of a no-frills approach to a remaster. Both games are presented as they originally were and are still as good as ever. They are highly replayable to those that experienced them first time around, but there is a lack of anything else included, unless you are willing to pay for it.

What has been created in Cuphead - The Delicious Last Course is beautiful to behold, the right side (just) of frustratingly hard, and will keep you playing for a while, all as you spend time with Ms. Chalice and work with the new weapons.

We struggle to come up with many reasons to pick up Renzo Racer. While it controls reasonably well, it’s the bare bones of a karting game, stripped of charm and sprinkled with infuriations. Then someone slaps a £19.99 price tag on it.

Don’t get us wrong: Strikers 1945 is definitely worth picking up. It’s a rush, a bombastic vertical shooter that gets almost everything right. Carving through a mech that erupts from a 1940s tank never gets old. But there’s some lamenting to be had, as it’s a repackaged game that has been repackaged better before.

What we have here is a charming, if not flawed, adventure into the unknown. However, certain gameplay issues mean that you may just want to cut your Time on Frog Island short.

PowerWash Simulator is fun for both short and long gaming sessions, delivering instant virtual gratification from pressure washing goodness.

All in all, the story and the characters are what will keep dragging you back to Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition; you’ll want to see what happens to the team. Thankfully the gameplay is as solid as ever, but improved traversal makes things easier, and that makes this the best of those available in the Shadowrun Trilogy.

Adventures of Chris is a good little platformer that references its 90’s influences to the hilt. It has a funny, cartoony story that is family-friendly and enjoyable, even if the gameplay pushes things difficulty-wise.

The Psychoduck is a bang average – at best – stealth game, which you might actually want to dodge and hide from.

We imagine that Zorro The Chronicles fans will find a bit of wish-fulfilment here. There’s every opportunity to slash a Z on the torso of your enemies, as you dance from melee to melee with grace. But you will need some blinkers to ignore the rampant repetition of its levels, which can’t come close to keeping things interesting or varied.

There is a decent narrative to follow, and getting your wings powered up is pretty satisfying, but the trivial combat robs Krut: The Mythic Wings of a lot of fun.

You may well be surprised at how addicted you’ll get to House Builder as you enjoy building different homes across the globe.

Sixty Words by POWGI is still a quintessential POWGI game. That is, taking an existing puzzle trope and adding a unique spin to it. But the additional paint-by-words mechanic may just be enough for those that haven’t played a POWGI game to give this one a try - if only to see what all the fuss is about.

The gameplay in Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director’s Cut is solid, the story is excellent, and this is an improvement over Shadowrun Returns.

I love a good puzzler and Hourglass is very good for the five or six hours that it will last. The price is a bit heavy, but on the whole this is a quality thinking person's game and one that you won’t want to miss.

Fall Guys is unlike anything you will play. It is highly addictive, the beans are cute, but the game is incredibly intense – particularly if you manage to make it to a final round.

With very few issues, technical or otherwise, you’re certainly in for a good time if you pick up Ghostrunner: Complete Edition.

Rabbids: Party of Legends is in the upper echelons of party games. It’s got that lavish Ubisoft presentation going for it, and the gormless rabbids are as entertaining as always.

What a splendid surprise Flewfie’s Adventure is. We expected it to be in and out like a furball, coughed up in the space of minutes and probably just as enjoyable. But instead it’s absolute catnip, and we played through its surprising depths with a big old grin on our faces.

Even if the film has flopped, should you have Jurassic World Evolution 2 in your library and have nigh-on maxed out what it brings, the Dominion Biosyn Expansion is one that will bring a host of new, exciting content.

Eternal Hope is a nicely played-out visual story with some great ideas and a lovely gaming technique which lets you swap instantly between two different realities. There are some problems with checkpointing and the accuracy in terms of platforming isn’t as tight as it possibly should be, but that rarely takes away from such a clever little game.

I feel like a game (any game) should have an element of skill to make it more than a random number generator, and honestly that is what Overrogue occasionally feels like.

The Endless Summer Surfing Challenge tries to capture the thrills, but it fails. It’s not very exciting, a bit buggy, and you get tired of it very quickly.

If you want to throw a bike around some time trial tracks for a little bit, by all means crack on, but if you try to do anything else in MX vs ATV Legends, you're going to be met with a host of issues.

There is a nagging sense that The Sealed Ampoule should be offering more in return - more story, moments or character upgrades to leaven the repetition - but, by golly, once you pop a dungeon, you really can’t stop.

Pinku Kult: Hex Mortis will give you the creeps, while also luring you back continuously until completion, and then has the gall to leave you with a desire for more. If it’s an enchanting turn-based affair you’re after, you should look no further.

The Jackbox Party Starter does a great job of introducing players to the party game phenomenon. The choice of games is bang on, and it provides more than enough to help people decide if this is a series they want to party on with.

The base mechanics of REDO! aren’t inherently flawed and everything plays like it's supposed to, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

Fully remastered with a lot of extras, SEGA have achieved their goal of making Sonic Origins the best way to play the classics going forward.

There is a lot to love about SpellForce III Reforced, especially if you are an RPG and RTS fan. The world it builds and the story it creates are immersive and compelling, whilst the visuals add a layer that makes it stand out from the cheaper version of games of this genre.

If Roller Champions was a real sport it could easily attract many eyes to its events. Unfortunately, it just does not bring enough to the table as a ‘game’ in its current form.

Super Impossible Road is a must-have for fans of old school, fast paced racers. If quick, eye-melting gameplay is your bag, then you’ll find a good range of modes for your pleasure.

Ultimately, A Winter's Daydream is harmless, short and non-interactive, and - like a daydream - we will completely forget about it by this time next week.

You know those experimental and diverse games that should be played by everyone? Milky Way Prince - The Vampire Star is one of those.

With all the content available, the beautiful charcoal art style, the tense survival gameplay, the wonderful stories, This War of Mine: Final Cut is something that is absolutely worth your time.

Disc Room is a straightforward game that’s built on a simple concept, but is also incredibly addicting and challenging.

It's the narrative that makes Omori something special. Subtlety is an important part of good storytelling because it makes you think and it makes you want to talk about it.

The retro survival horror tactics of FOBIA - St. Dinfna Hotel are enjoyable enough for the first few hours, as you go about exploring and working out what is going on, all as a strange tale of the supernatural unfolds

To recommend Can Androids Survive on Xbox would mean understanding it, and we don’t. Not fully, anyway.

With some editing, Rogue Lords would have got the blood flowing. Too often, we found our blood boiling.

We doubt we will return to the frantic puzzling of Taco Tom 2. But its story and clever approach to levels will stick with us for a long old time.

Unfortunately, if we told you that King Leo was worth playing, we’d be lion.

By the end of Tales of Aravorn: Seasons of the Wolf, we felt like Frodo and Sam at the end of Lord of the Rings: tired, ready for a pint, and never wanting to go through the experience again.

The pictures don’t suit the format, the controls are awkward, and it’s lacking the joy of pieces snapping together. Save yourself the stress of Hatsune Miku Jigsaw Puzzle and pop into your local charity shop for a Ravensburger.

You won’t come away from Square Keeper feeling like a genius, but for the low price of under a fiver, it’s a decent puzzler that can kill an hour and boost your Gamerscore in the process.

Pure Chase 80’s is a fling with an ex. For a fleeting moment, it reminds you of a past love - in this case, Outrun - and leaves you pining for an older time. But it is exceptionally fleeting: all feelings of joy evaporate after an hour or so, and you realise why you moved on in the first place.

Autonauts is an interesting experience. The novelty of building robots rarely wears off, whilst the ability to get them to do almost anything results in some very intriguing experiments.

Despite not being the most complex management game, Spacelines from the Far Out offers a well rounded experience that is easy to dip in and out of. This is one trip you will be happy to hold a season ticket for.

It gives us great pleasure to wholeheartedly recommend Newfound Courage. You will struggle to find a more likeable and relatable narrative adventure. It’s exceptionally well-written, unashamedly gay, and will appeal to absolutely anyone who felt their lip trembling while playing To The Moon. It’s a triumph that wears its heart very much on its sleeve.

Tour de France 2022 is left spinning up the steepest climb as the enthusiasm and energy fast drains away.

Shadowrun Returns is a solid tactical RPG with a good story; one which you will certainly enjoy.

Set some 79p expectations, and you might get a few drops of entertainment from Red Ball Escape Adventure. Its bouncy mechanic is solid, and the levels keep stirring in new ideas to ensure you are never quite bored.

There is an audience for Lab Crisis. It’s just a shame that the audience will be achievement hunters, who will see this as a significant bounty: 2000G in the space of five minutes.

Amazing Superhero Squad fluffs it. What should have been a deep and strategic hero simulator is instead a shape-matching game with the shallowest of gameplay puddles to splash around in. We thought being Nick Fury for a day would be fun; as it turns out, it’s as mundane and simple as putting on his eyepatch every morning.

Limb Hunter is a fierce but fair action-platformer, and its big idea - the ability to swap in and out different robotic limbs - makes it well worth a play.

Why Pizza? is a half-and-half pizza; one side that we had to eat with a spoon, the other side a plain old margherita. We’d have rather had a meat feast for this little platformer’s full length.

Oh, Minigolf Adventure, what an unfathomable mess you are. We’d have loved to have been a fly on the wall, watching to see how these decisions got made. We can only assume that they were rushed into the game as a last-minute fix for an even bigger problem.

If you have the patience of a saint and are prepared to wait until every guard is in the perfect place, Winter Ember can be a fun challenge to make it through undetected.

Blow & Fly is a bog-standard precision platformer that does nothing to distinguish itself from the hundreds of others on the market.

Thunder Kid II: Null Mission is plain lazy. Its gimmick is still not enough to build a game around, because that’s already been tried once before and hasn’t worked. As a result this one is null and void.

Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover’s core issues remain since the first outing, but some small improvements have been made. Despite this, on balance it will take a lot more to make this a game to recommend.

Deep Diving Adventures is nothing like real diving. It’s a floating contradiction: somehow, it manages to be both ludicrously fascinating and uncomfortably boring.

F1 22 is once again capable of providing a seriously hot F1 racing experience, but the bits away from that are less exciting.

Just Shapes & Beats is one of those games that captures your heart and soul. It's addictive, difficult, and great.

Nirvana: Pilot Yume is a game which fails to deliver in both of its main aspects.

It’s a platformer with teeth, and if you want a challenge then Evasion From Hell could be for you.

Zeus Quest - The Rebirth of Earth is a good point-and-click puzzle adventure game that is unique, fun and suitable for all the family.

Once the water gets flowing and there is a steady stream of unlocks as you douse building after building, Firegirl: Hack ‘n Splash Rescue DX starts to catch fire

Almost My Floor is a very good point-and-click adventure that is inventive with its narrative and cartoon visuals

Oxide Room 104 is a decent little survival horror; one that has some great ideas but falls short in others.

Whether your motivation is reclaiming your youth, or exploring the early days of RPGs, then Steve Jackson’s Sorcery!: The Complete Collection will put you under its spell.

Urban Flow shows that you can gamify anything, and more importantly, have a good time in doing so.

Aside from the new tractor beams, the VOID Riders DLC for OlliOlli World doesn’t really change much. But when the foundations are so much fun, nothing really needs to be changed.

DEADCRAFT brings something new to the survival genre. It’s a bit too slow, but fun nonetheless, and if you are tired of regular survival games, this is different enough to offer a change of pace.

There’s a fairly big chunk of gameplay on offer in The Quarry and it totally deserves a replay in order for you to witness different endings and try to see if you can keep everyone alive - or kill them all.

When you take into account the price tag, Broken Mind fits perfectly. It is completely compelling to play and will hook you in from beginning to the very end of the four or five hour running time.

Fantastically well made with passion for the genre, incredible looks and solid play, longevity may be the issue for Final Vendetta; with little replayability and only six stages, it is a bit on the short side.

eFootball 2022 is a disaster, plain and simple, and there has been very little added to Season 1 or 2 that can alleviate that.