Tiny Thief
Android, iPad and iPhone, £1.99 (Rovio Stars)

In each of Tiny Thief's witty and engaging puzzles, you need to steal an item while avoiding detection, rescue your pet squirrel and pick up any extras you find along the way. An incredibly impressive thieve 'em-up.

Earn To Die
Android and iPad, £1.99, and iPhone, 69p (Not Doppler)

Drive across the zombie-infested American wasteland, ploughing through all who stand in your way like an ice-road trucker who's just sniffed out a bowl of grits. Simple, joyous destruction.

Scurvy Scallywags
iPad and iPhone, £1.49 (Beep Games)

An intriguing mix of pirates, adventure games and match-three puzzling that sounds like the Old Gregg episode of The Mighty Boosh, Scurvy Scallywags gets you to align images in pursuit of glory, treasure and The Ultimate Sea Shanty.

Ice Breaker: A Viking Voyage
Android and iPad, £1.99, and iPhone, 69p (Rovio Stars)

Your job as Viking Cutting Master is to free fellow Scandinavians and their lost treasure by making tactical slices through ice, ropes and sticky slime, as if you're carving up a giant Viennetta. Elegantly designed and great fun.

Musyc
iPad and iPhone, free (Fingerlab)

Somewhere between a game and a musical instrument, you imbue geometric shapes with sounds and let them bounce about in a sonic playground, created with a few stabs of your finger.  

Gentlemen!
Android and iPad, £2.99 (Lucky Frame)

Pitting two players against each other on the same iPad, the Pong-meets-dapper-Pacman combat is fast, furious and often over so quickly you'll barely know who trounced whom.

Deus Ex: The Fall
iPad 3 and iPhone 4S or later, £4.99 (Square Enix)

All the vent crawling, door hacking, body augmentation and non-lethal takedown encouragement of its PC and console-based big brother, but on your iPhone. Enemy AI's a let down, but The Fall remains a miniature technical marvel. 

Bridgy Jones
iPad and iPhone, 99p (Chillingo)

There have been many bridge-building games in the past, but none with the humour or finesse of Bridgy Jones, whose wobbly constructions need to carry your train across chasms via bonus bones for Bridgy's pet dog. 

Coastal Command
iPad, £1.49, and iPhone, free (Pomob Games)

This seafaring twist on tower defence gives you a small archipelago on which to place your turrets, presented in precise, pretty-looking vector-style graphics that let you see the path of each individual bullet, shell and missile. 

Nuclear Outrun
Android, iPad and iPhone, free (Gamenauts)

Speed along the cheerful irradiated badlands, tapping zombies to blow their little cartoon heads off and collecting survivors by driving over them, in this mindless undead-exploding freebie.