

This moody isometric adventure game is an RPG, but other than that it defies genre. Not only is it a relaxing experience, but it's lovely to look at with bags of style and dreamy colors. This gentle and satisfying puzzler from ustwo, the team of geniuses behind Monument Valley, requires you to take apart and repair gadgets, like watches and cameras. Three word review: Broken gadget simulator

There’s something very cool about driving gravity-defying Ferrari and Ducatis around impossible race tracks. You’ll never get bored with more than 400 career events, 1500 mystery challenges, six game modes, countless ways to upgrade your vehicles and multiplayer mode to challenge your friends. This is a fast-paced and beautifully-modelled driving game, a glitzy arcade racer that includes cars and bikes alike. Surprisingly addictive and perfect for touchscreen play, there’s a reason it’s perhaps the best-known mobile gaming hit of all time. Using a catapult, you fire an assortment of birds at fortifications, aiming to knock them into the pigs within. If you’ve had a smartphone at any point in the last ten years, you know the drill. It sounds basic, and at the start it is, but you’ll need to position the logs carefully to get them in the right place, especially when the islands start getting more crowded. In this simple puzzle you must make your way from island to island by cutting down trees and flipping over logs, which you can use as bridges to get over the water. This visually-stunning game tasks you with chaining together tricks across dunes, canyons and temples, whether that’s sliding down vines, bouncing on hot air balloons or gliding along in your very own wingsuit. Somewhere between the magnificent indie adventure game ‘Journey’ and an endless runner game, you’ll find Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City. Three word review: Endless desert sandboarding

It's easy-to-play but a little different because it has a unique game mechanic that requires you to swap circles around the screen that highlight obstacles and dangers you have to avoid in each level. Help a chicken find its lost chicks in this cute and family-friendly puzzle game. Three word review: Avian puzzle adventure Take pictures of the local fauna, and the whole thing can be done and dusted in a few hours, so there’s no open world bloat. Alba’s out to save the wildlife on the island where her grandparents live.

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure has some of the world-building charm of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and a stronger environmental message. Three word review: Miniature environmental Zeldaĭon’t miss this beautiful, relaxing adventure.
