Paleo Pines is a simulation adventure where you befriend dinosaurs to help you fix your ranch and farm crops.

Paleo Pines is a simulation adventure where you befriend dinosaurs to help you fix your ranch and farm crops. Play involves exploring the island, meeting the locals, taking on quests and working towards taming the dinos.

Minecraft is an open-world adventure where you collect, craft and construct structures and items.

Minecraft is an open-world adventure where you collect, craft and construct structures and items. Play involves exploring the world to find resources and good locations to build.

Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser version of Minecraft.

Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser version of Minecraft. However, this is a game every bit as complex and creative as the better-known block-building game.

Skylanders uses toy figures to unlock characters and save progress.

Skylanders uses toy figures to unlock characters and save progress. It is no longer manufactured but can be found second-hand quite cheaply and is a lot of fun for young players, particularly when played in cooperative two-player mode.

Ratchet & Clank looks more cartoony but still offers the B-movie-style action.

Ratchet & Clank looks more cartoony but still offers the B-movie-style action. As Ratchet, you explore planets and space stations, battling enemies with a variety of weapons and gadgets.

Okami (Okamiden on Nintendo DS) is an unusual action-adventure.

Okami (Okamiden on Nintendo DS) is an unusual action-adventure. Combat is via interactions that are achieved with brush strokes rather than weapons.

From Dust is a strategy game.

From Dust is a strategy game. You play as an all powerful God of a primitive people.

Disney Infinity is an action game with themed adventures around iconic Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters.

Disney Infinity is an action game with themed adventures around iconic Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters. Players unlock content in the game with physical figurines and PlaySet pieces placed onto a Base peripheral plugged into the console or PC.

Shadow Of The Colossus is an action-adventure game where you play a young man who enters a forbidden land to defeat sixteen massive beings to restore the life of a girl he cares about.

Shadow Of The Colossus is an action-adventure game where you play a young man who enters a forbidden land to defeat sixteen massive beings to restore the life of a girl he cares about. It sounds like any other video game, although in fact, Shadow of the Colossus stands apart in many ways.

Lego, a popular film franchise and a video game is a rich recipe for gaming fun.

Lego, a popular film franchise and a video game is a rich recipe for gaming fun. The series of Lego games has been developed since the first release on Nintendo DS.

Prince of Persia is a long-standing game series dating back to the early 90s.

Prince of Persia is a long-standing game series dating back to the early 90s. The games all feature the titular prince who must escape a maze of platform-based levels.

Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games that combine video games and Disney characters in popular adventures.

Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games that combine video games and Disney characters in popular adventures. You play Sora, as he journeys with various Disney, Square Enix and Pixar characters and fights multiple incarnations of the game's villain, Xehanort.

Portal 2 is an action adventure where you traverse through increasingly complex (and dangerous) test chamber obstacle courses.

Portal 2 is an action adventure where you traverse through increasingly complex (and dangerous) test chamber obstacle courses. By creating two connected portals (if you walk into one, you walk out the other) you must move yourself around the rooms to escape.

PixelJunk Monsters is a strategy game where you build defensive towers to defeat a linear march of enemies before they reach your base and kill your creatures.

PixelJunk Monsters is a strategy game where you build defensive towers to defeat a linear march of enemies before they reach your base and kill your creatures. Play involves placing towers to stop the onslaught, each one has different abilities (rapid fire, long-range, air-focused) that deal with enemies at different rates and are effective at different kinds of attackers.

The Secret of Monkey Island is a classic tongue-in-cheek pirate adventure game.

The Secret of Monkey Island is a classic tongue-in-cheek pirate adventure game. You click or tap the screen to explore locations, find items and complete puzzles.