This War of Mine will haunt your iPad

Surviving war is probably a lot tougher than fighting it. In This War of Mine from 11-Bit Studios, for three survivors in a bombed and menacing city, just getting through the night is grim enough as horrific choices come and go.

Hauntingly monochrome with an aftermath atmosphere of living minute to minute, it shows what games are capable of, and on the same day as an Angry Birds 2 announcement, hey ho!

This War of Mine is picking up great reviews, so enjoy, or put your bravest face on for the suffering of the characters. It costs £7.99 and weighs in at around 360MB.

Gemini Rue brings old-school adventuring to the iPad

Remember all those great LucasArts and European adventures on the ST/Amiga? Well Gemini Rue pays a neat homage to them on the iPad (looks very Beneath a Steel Sky to me), having been a hit indie PC adventure in recent years. A £2.49 point-and-tap adventure, it stars Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin, on the planet Barracus and a man called Delta-Six who wakes up in a hospital with no memory.

Without knowing where to turn or who to trust, he vows to escape before he loses his identity completely. As fate brings these two closer together, we discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought and sold, and a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.