All games

Not sure where to start? Paper Fold and Plumber Pipe are quick puzzle reads, Super Kick 3D World Cup and Tap Goal suit short sports rounds, and Kitty Cats is the calmest choice in the casual shelf.

The library is small enough to read in one sitting and varied enough that two games rarely ask for the same thing. Roughly a quarter of it is puzzle, with sports, racing and arcade filling most of the rest, and the casual and strategy shelves holding the games that are least interested in testing you.

Paper Fold and Plumber Pipe remain the quickest puzzle reads, Super Kick 3D World Cup and Tap Goal suit a short sports round, and Paint Pop 3D is a fair test of whether timing games are your kind of thing.

Choosing is easier from the other direction, starting with how much attention you want to spend. An arcade round ends in a minute or two and asks for one decision at a time. A racing title wants a line held rather than a reflex fired.

Puzzle and drawing games are the ones to open when there is time to plan, and the sports titles sit between a reflex and a decision.

If the aim is to wind down rather than compete, the calm end of the library is Kitty Cats, Pocket Plants Garden and Magic Girl, with Idle Bear Island Polar Tycoon the only title that carries on while you are away from the screen.

Every cover on this page leads to a guide that states the objective and the controls before the game opens, so a first attempt does not have to be spent working out what the screen wants. That is why the library is arranged by guide rather than by thumbnail alone.