CAT QUEST

$6.49 | iOS, Android thegentlebros.com/catquest It’s perhaps unsurprising that a game combining cats and quests would do so well. This open-world RPG features real-time combat and pretty much everything else you’d expect from an RPG — loot, customisation, side-quests — and it’s all presented in a cute and colourful storybook art style.

SLAYAWAY CAMP

$2.69 | Android, iOS bluewizard.com/slayawaycamp For the more psychopathic mobile gamer, Slayaway Camp will prove a real treat. Play as Skullface, butchering and slaughtering voxel camp counselors as you navigate through the isometric world of the titular camp, solving puzzles and taking names.

ZIP ZAP

$2.39 | iOS, Android www.kamibox.de/zipzap One part sentient Meccano, one part Cut The Rope, and the rules are simple: direct a ball or a piece of the puzzles into the goal area for two seconds. The physics are spot-on, and the connection between your taps and on-screen results tactile.

EUCLIDEAN LANDS

$6.99 | iOS euclideanlands.com Combine a Rubik’s cube with chess and you’re halfway there. It’s a modern masterpiece, a truly tactile game where dragging the pieces and cubes around has surprising weight. Equally abstract as it is tough, it’ll reward you with the feeling that you’re truly smart.