From Mario Kart racers to 2D platforms, this charming game-maker gives you access to the Nintendo toolkit
This stylish, twisted take on movies such as Rear Window and Chinatown marries noir sensibilities with puzzle gameplay
This time-loop shooter interrogates the inherent repetition of video games – or just lets you revel in supremely choreographed mayhem
Fifa 22 is absolutely unmistakably a Fifa game – it has the sophistication and polish we’ve come to expect, with all the player likenesses, authentic stadia and recognisable commentators we see every year. But right at the core of it is a match engine that feels more surefooted than ever, at a time when the game’s more tactically complex rival Pro Evolution Soccer has been relegated to a free-to-play existence with all the compromises that will inevitably entail. If you can live with the loot-box trickery of Ultimate Team, this is a gigantic, rewarding simulation that offers a ton of variety and scope, and many, many moments of exquisite goalmouth drama.
Two decades of house moves are condensed into one relaxing puzzle as you help the narrator to unpack – and unpick her life in the process
A band of inglorious stereotypes go on a covert mission to uncover a Nazi plan in a traditional instalment of the series
This tense co-operative shooter is thoroughly entertaining, as much for the ideas it borrows as the ideas it comes up with
If you've played a zombie game in the past decade, this mishmash of tattered post-apocalyptic stereotypes will feel all too familiar
PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch; Warner BrosJourney through all nine movies in this gag-filled crowd pleaser that even makes The Phantom Menace bearable
Please Fix the Road is a gentle, quietly demanding puzzler that will keep you entertained for many hours, especially if you ration out the 150 levels. There’s always something new to experiment with or some cute little visual flourish to enjoy, and watching the last tile slot into place, then seeing the car (or train, or pink llama) whizzing along to its destination never stops being pleasing. In these discombobulating times, here is a little puzzle box that brings order to chaos, if only for a few stolen seconds.
With its wonky sets, dodgy cameras and bizarre plotlines, this reboot of the gangster adventure series is haphazard but joyful.
The 11 games bundled together here offer a glorious return trip to a lost age of gaming
Now it feels like the physics, AI and animation have come together in a way that makes even these ridiculous moments feel naturalistic and pleasurable.
It's not really a sequel, but Overwatch's enthusiastic rejection of self-serious military shooters still draws you in.
Setting one's unease at delighting in hi-tech warfare aside, this is a precisely tooled, intensely immersive combat simulator
Your favourite childhood heroes step up to help you conquer territory in this beautifully designed, strategic deck-builder for smartphones
The open-world adventure is brilliant in terms of input and response at the expense of any discernible logic
Making good use of the comics, this turn-based strategy games gives players satisfyingly fiendish challenges – and room to chillax afterwards
The cult 3DS game has been refreshed for smartphones and the combination of card game and horse racing is as weird and addictive as ever
Four games from a cult 1980s shoot-em-up developer – from Zero Wing to Truxton – show the value of game preservation