Not quite a main course but heftier than a snack, Mazes Of Karradash is a great little bit of adventuring that should slot nicely into any RPG fan's busy schedule.

As it stands, Fish Pond Park is an afternoon trip to the pond and not much more than that.

It's sleek, it's responsive, and although I would have liked to see a bit more concept-wise, it's worth playing.

As long as you’re not dangerously low on toilet paper, You Against Me should be a pretty safe bet.

It's a clever puzzle game that suits the platform very well, offering a straight-forward interface and a relatively smooth mastery curve.

If you enjoy the digital dopamine drip most clickers provide with lots of incremental upgrades but hate the actual “clicking”, then you really need to check out Tap Quest: Gate Keeper.

What Warhammer: Arcane Magic is today though, is a well rounded game with a very slick visual style and fun gameplay.

Exclusively looking at the gameplay of Angry Birds 2, this is the best Angry Birds yet. Throwing in additional randomization spices things up a bit, the "boss fights" are really neat, and all the other little additions here and there (Like fans, flowers that spit blocks for some reason, and other strange things) make playing the game a ton of fun.

With epic action, soapy drama, conflicts between gods, plenty of romance, and interesting quests that take you to a variety of places both mundane and extraordinary, this piece of interactive fiction is certainly worthy of being called a champion in its own right.

Overall Battle Orbs is a good puzzle battler with simple elements of adventure that you can easily grab and leave for short periods of time anywhere you go.

If you like Hearthstone and social RPGs like Puzzles & Dragons, this could really be your new favorite game. If you have a low tolerance for free-to-play junk and don’t have a lot of time to put into grinding up a nice stable of diverse characters and cards, then I probably lost you a while ago anyway.

Simple but beautiful, and something truly unique. Play Prune.

I can certainly appreciate Mangobile wanting to try something different before diving into making another hardcore SRPG, and for a first attempt outside that milieu, Earth Vs. Balloons is surprisingly well-rounded.

There is a lot to love about this game. If you ever feel stuck, change up your approach. You might be surprised at the variety.

Thankfully, Agar.io is actually free, and doesn't have any IAP of any kind yet. Although it could stand to use a few tweaks over time, for all these reasons and more, I highly recommend it.

If you're looking for a taxing puzzle game that won't demand constant perfection to progress, To-Fu Fury is your huckleberry.

Namco didn't mess with anything they didn't need to in the end, and we are all better for it, as this is a must-have.

Impulse GP continues the trend with tons of speed, great visuals, and a few clever new tricks to set it apart from the pack

Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle is worth a try for fans of the franchise but is powered by fond childhood memories more so than solid content.

If you're a big anime fan and are just looking for a little slice of story here in there wrapped in nice production values, you might want to check Million Arthur out to see if you can swing with its light gameplay. Everyone else looking for a fun social RPG to sink their teeth into can certainly find better choices than this, from both Gamevil themselves and several other publishers.

Warhammer 40K: Deathwatch is a gorgeous game with strong design backing it. The campaign is big and meaty, and it presents a fun challenge that will test your tactical skills.

If you love Crossy Road but wish it took place in a different setting, had a little more variation, and was harder, then Down the Mountain is a solid download for sure

Exsilium has a few design problems, but overall it hits the spot if you're looking for a casual dungeon crawler. Just don't expect the world and play it on a tablet and you should be fine.

It's a solid experience that I'm amused by, and am curious to see what they do with new levels, because the game explores so much of its concept as it is.

Nono Islands isn’t the best or most original game Illusion Labs has ever come out with, but it’s still a damn good one.

Cally's Caves 3 is jam-packed with content, of which a significant and satisfying portion is totally free to play with only infrequent ads as strings.

Puzzle Sweeper is a game I desperately want to love. It has a pleasant art style, a neat gimmick, and is pretty fun overall. However, as a fairly big Minesweeper nut, I’ve seen a lot of these games come and go and it takes something really special to turn my head.

It's always great to see a game with a new angle on a somewhat exhausted genre, and Hero Fighter X more than lives up to both its lineage and its promise.

Don't Starve truly stands as an excellent iPad game filled with dread and fun, terror and laughter (Wilson is quite funny),

This is a surprisingly lore and story rich game for a twin stick shooter.

Although it would be nice to earn rewards more often, the core mechanics stand up on their own, and this is one runner I'll be keeping on my device for quite a while.

Think of Always Sometimes Monsters as a visual novel with justifiably tedious gameplay sequences binding everything together, and you'll be in the right frame of mind to accept its strengths.

Ultimately you are going to buy the game for the barcode gimmick. It's fun and how much fun you derive from it will almost directly translate into how fun you will have with the game on the whole. For me it was worth an hour or two of entertainment and the game got tired pretty quickly after that.

While Crystal Souls has been available for PC for awhile now, I think that the iPad version has a better control scheme. Hence, I have no problem saying that Crystal Souls should be considered the definitive version and I’m very happy to see it make its return on the iPad.

I think with a little bit more to do, this game could have been great; but for a free game, it was still quite good.

There's so much that could have been amazing about Heroki. It just falls so short, and it genuinely makes me sad. It pains me for so many reasons to say bad things about Heroki because of what the game could potentially stand for. But as a game? It's just not great.

At its core, AlphaBear isn't dramatically different from most other letter games, but between its few gameplay twists, the rewarding collection mechanic, and its infectiously silly and fun-loving nature, it's an easy game to fall for.

The character animations are incredibly fluid and give the movement a really good feel. The levels are a bit longer than most iOS platformers (it’s a port, after all), but never so long that they become frustrating.

Overall, LMO is a pretty fun game with a great amount of content that will entertain young and old(er) gamers.

Downhill Riders probably isn't going to make headlines, but if you're looking for a stylish new runner, it's worth checking out.

And it's a game that has great production values for what it is, as a 2D top-down shoot 'em up. It's just that the game has a lot of issues that keep it from being a solid recommendation.

Despite the few qualms I have with the game, Dinofour is a fun and challenging experience that I would recommend to any puzzle platformer fan.

If you enjoy time attack games and don't mind a stiff challenge, you'll definitely want to give Trappy Tomb a look.

Taken as a sequel to Rogue Ninja, Alchemic Dungeons features significantly more content and is just all-around more fun to play.

The Executive is one of the best mobile games of 2015, and is something that you need to play. It's so amusing and so much fun, that you're doing yourself a disservice by not playing it.

In the end, it’s an enjoyable platformer with great production values and good pacing. In my mind that’s more than enough to be worth a recommendation.

If you’re at all into puzzle games that are more interested in soothing you than hurting your brain, I think you’ve found your new addiction.

This is right up there with Cardinal Quest 2 as one of my favorite mobile roguelikes.

I suspect many people will be happy to see that LEGO Batman: Beyond Gotham has reverted back to the old style, and I think I'll go ahead and agree that it was probably the right call for this game.

Furdemption is a trully great puzzle platformer with a whimsical protagonist and a colorful-yet-gory art style that stands out among the competition.

What Tales from Deep Space provides is a lot of puzzle-platforming fun, albeit not as a perfect package.

Beast Bound is an okay game made slightly better by infusing itself with an infectious amount of enthusiasm.

There's a lot of great ideas here, and a solid game at its core, but the execution could have been a lot better.

Not essential, but if you pick it up, it'll be perfectly fine.

The art style is nice and minimalistic, but you will get tired of the music and the various voices telling you to ‘try harder’ every single respawn.

If you like your Warhammer, then, or you're just itching for a good turn-based strategy game on your iPad, give Warhammer 40K: Armaggedon a try.

For now, it's hard to recommend Sonic Runners to any but the most patient of fans. You're going to have to use a metaphoric machete to chop away at all of the dense jungle getting between you and the fun running action, but if you can look past all of that, you'll find something worth sinking your teeth into.

I really can’t say enough good things about this game. It’s hard as nails, immensely satisfying, and just plain fun.

If you have fond memories of Terminal Velocity or other '90s flight simulators, you can relive your glory days on your mobile device with little to no issues.

Although it's got a bit of bloat and the overall package isn't quite as strong as the previous game, Dragon Quest 6 is still a phenomenal RPG.

At its core, FireWhip is a high score chaser, albeit one with a unique mechanic. But its style, the presentation goes a long way toward making this even more satisfying to play than a basic presentation would be, and elevates the whole thing.

If you're new to the series, you'll get more bang for your buck by picking up Harmony 2, and I'd certainly strongly recommend that you do that, if you haven't played a Harmony game before.

There is a lot of great variety to the puzzles, and the art is super colorful and really pops.

I’m gonna be honest: I don’t know how many people in our readership are going to go for a free-to-play kart racing RPG. Especially one that’s pretty generic in it’s racing and RPG-ing. Here’s the thing, though. KKRacing’s actually really fun.

Cartoon Survivor packs delights and annoyances in near equal measures, a combination I know has its fans. For anyone else? Well, the first bit is free for a reason.

It's a mixed bag, the best parts are front-loaded, and it's relatively light on content, so I can really only recommend this one to particularly hungry fans of the genre.

Weird pricing issues aside, Truck Trials 2 is still an undeniably fun game.

If you're looking for another stealth game, Robbery Bob 2: Double Trouble deserves a second look. It may not be in the running for most the memorable franchise in town, but it gets the job done for those of you who desire puzzle-oriented gameplay over non-stop action.

I don't think Hue Ball will win any awards for originality, but it's a darn fine iteration on an existing concept.

It’s a platformer that knows exactly what platform it’s on, and rolls with it.

I highly recommend Her Story, even for its slight imperfections.

The game is free-to-play, but it definitely falls on the “good” end of that spectrum.

Here goes: It’s not great. It’s packed with all the free-to-play nonsense you all hate, the gameplay is pretty bland, and nothing you do seems to matter in any way.

All in all, it's not bad for a first attempt, but with this sub-genre so much more competitive on iOS than the standard JRPG one, WorldWideSoftware is going to need to work harder on the battle mechanics if they mean to revisit it in the future.

You can enjoy the game simply for its battle system, or you can play it to experience its fantastic story.

If you want a game where you can just run around and shoot a bunch of gooey mutants, and enjoy doing so, check out Xenowerk. You won't be disappointed.

Despite its F2P model, the game offers players interesting, uninterrupted gameplay and plenty of strategic decisions. PES CM is a very entertaining soccer manager game wrapped up in a, mostly, attractive package that I recommend to anyone who'd rather not spend the dozens of hours a game like Football Manager Classic demands

You certainly have to appreciate a bit of old-fashioned sensibility to get the most out of Dungeoneers Quest, but if you're open to that sort of structure, you'll likely have a good time here.

It’s well worth the price if you enjoy puzzles.

And Brickies is, deep down, still a brick-breaker. And it can't escape that to be an excellent game. It's as good a game as it possibly can be, though.

Like a real waterslide, it’s cheap, kinda shallow, and won’t last forever. But it’s an undeniably good time while it does last.

There's no part of AlphaBetty Saga we haven't seen done to death already.

I had a fantastic time with Nubs' Adventure, and I'd strongly suggest you at least give the free portion of the game a try.

The pricepoint may scare some people off, but any flight simulation junkie that yearns for the olden days of Tie Fighter and Rogue Squadron will have fun with Alpha Squadron 2.

That said, if you're looking for a visual novel that doesn't pivot around romancing other characters, An Octave Higher is a strong example among admittedly slim pickings on iOS

I played a few rounds, and it seemed pretty good.

For now, I think Biz Builder Delux makes for a nice bit of fun for sim fans looking for something they can pay once and fully enjoy in a genre buried in free-to-play giants.

This is a premium game through-and-through, with no IAPs in sight, and if you are a wargamer of any type, you should play Vietnam '65 so you can see how an innovative take on war can offer many hours of fresh and thought-provoking gameplay.

It's a more complete 10000000, offering so much improvement all around that it makes the original game feel like a demo.

The repetitiveness and lack of content is a downfall that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t give the game a try, only that you shouldn’t expect for it to extend beyond one bored train ride to work or a single rainy afternoon indoors.

It's not the kind of game you'll be playing for hours on end, but for a few minutes at a time over a long time.

Desktop Dungeons has made a pretty great effort to port their game to the iOS world, and it packs a lot of replay and problem solving into this app.

While I've got a couple of quibbles with it, Sproggiwood is a fantastically well-rounded take on the roguelike genre. It's challenging, rewarding, forgiving, and charming all at once.

Even if you aren't a zombie fan, turn-based and puzzle enthusiasts should give Dead Eyes a shot. An expansion of sorts for a few bucks would do wonders in terms of its longevity, but for now, it's a decently-packed undead romp.

Sure, it does very little new in the behind-the-back-runner genre, but what it does do is amp up the spectacle and variety to a dizzying degree, proving the runner genre may still have legs yet.

On the one hand, it's a competent enough pinball platformer that has a few neat ideas here and there. On the other hand, there's that Magic Mike cat in the background.

In short, Chaos Rings 3 is a big, meaty evolution of the series that makes a lot of changes. Some of those feel like natural progressions from the older games, while others are obviously coming in from other sources, but the game on the whole is richer for having all of them.

As you've probably figured out by this review, Queen: Play the Game is an audiovisual and trivia treat that does a great job transforming a wealth of information about one of the greatest rock bands ever into a pretty entertaining game.