Dave Ozzy

For some, Family Man will feel like a delicious challenge. For us, it made for a dark, relentless struggle that impressed with its scale, but was a few postcodes away from fun.

By slapping on a time limit and throwing crows at us every ten seconds, Agriculture started losing the simple joys that make farming games great.

Hexapoda brings the retro shooter to the insect world, and the result is creepy, polished and a whole lot of fun.

Catan - Console Edition: The Helpers ends up being a safe but welcome first expansion to the base board game.

The tracks are cleverly made and it runs well, but Smurfs Kart needed far more than that to register a scoring position.

What we’re left with is half a game. Gnomes Garden 8: Return of the Queen stops abruptly halfway, thanks to a critical save bug, and it’s a flip of a coin whether you will emerge with your save game in one piece afterwards. At the moment it’s a no-brainer - don’t dare play this. Wait and see if 8floor address the issue.

Puzzle by Nikoli W Kakuro is inelegant, and far from the quality we expect from the masters at Nikoli. We’re going to leave it for only the rainiest of rainy days.

While there are some interesting RPG frills around the edges of Envasion, this is a Space Invaders-like shooter that lacks speed, bombast and variety. Envasion, sadly, is one to evoid.

What a strange experience playing Cat Souls was. Our interest curve would look a little like a ski slope.

If you feel like you’ve seen most of what puzzles in games have to offer, you might want to try Teslagrad Remastered. 

If you want to brainlessly toss away an hour or two of your evening, then Hidden Shapes: Cat Realm + Trick or Cats is where it’s at. You’ll emerge from the session afterwards feeling like all of the mental knots and tensions have been massaged into nothingness.

Sure, The Rabbit Crazy Adventure is functional, and we managed to cross the finish line, but that’s no measure of a good game.

Cassette Beasts might not be as immediate as a certain pocket-monster game on another platform, but its depths are more cavernous.

The finished quality of Aery - Flow of Time is a shame, because you can see the game underneath.

If you like cats, enjoy hidden object games, and want to hand some cash to charity, then consider A Castle Full of Cats to be a hearty recommendation.