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The Croods is an animated family movie from Dreamworks. One of its main characters is Grug, a prehistoric patriarch who is terrified by the new world that’s evolving beyond the mouth of his cave. Despite the bouts of paranoia he suffers through the film, Grug looks completely happy and at ease in Rovio’s game adaptation of The Croods. That’s because The Croods for iOS is as unimaginative and unchanging as a social farming sim gets.

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Video games occupy dozens of niches, and interactive Japanese novels is as niche as games get. Either you instantly fall in love with these text-heavy mystery titles, or you raise an eyebrow after ten minutes of play and sweep your mouse cursor towards the “Uninstall” button. Café 0: The Drowned Mermaid for iOS is an interactive novel that subscribes to most of the genre’s clichés. If you’re into similar fare you’ll appreciate that the game exists, but it has enough issues to fill up a swimming pool.

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Admit it—we’ve all had the same thought from time to time: “Why oh why can’t there be a match-three puzzle game that combines the stripped-down brilliance of Bejeweled with the evolutionary excitement of Pokemon?” Seriously…it’s been a major problem since the dawn of games. Well these concerns can finally be laid to rest thanks to developer appxplore’s () newest release, Alien Hive.

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Are games art? Am I pretentious for asking that question? The answer, on both accounts, is yes. And while I’d much rather avoid the topic altogether, it can’t really be helped with Fetch, a point-and-click adventure game for the iPad. It’s currently at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), where people can get a glimpse into its development cycle and other behind-the-scenes goodness. Take that, Roger Ebert!

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Danger Boat sounds exactly like the kind of rip-roaring good time you'd expect to have with a B-movie featuring scantily-clad women, rugged adventurers, and a shark. Or something like that. Or a bizarre James Bond-like vehicle that suggests you're about to be in for a bad time. Instead, it's a very pedestrian endless runner set amongst the bluest waters of the ocean. Your job is to bob and weave through rocks, sets of incoming missiles, and other obstacles that serve as swift ends to your journey. In short, it's a pretty tame romp whose name doesn't feel very appropriate -- you're hardly experiencing any "danger" here.

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I live in a city with some of the most complete Roman ruins outside Italy. People come from all around the world to see them, and inconsiderately get in my way when I’m shopping or trying to get to work. The fascination with ancient Rome remains undimmed, and manifests itself in many peculiar ways, not least with games such as Legion.

We cover plenty of new games here at Gamezebo every week, but the number of games we’ve already covered that show up on new platforms? It’s staggering. This Wednesday and every Wednesday, Gamezebo is rounding up the games that aren’t quite new, but might be new to you depending on your platform of choice. And who doesn't love new(ish) games?

Unless you've spent the last couple months in a remote jungle, or given up Gamezebo for Lent (how could you!?), then you've almost certainly heard about leaked by company co-founder Dave Marsh. Then we got our hands on the beta.

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Worms clones are a dime a dozen these days. Earlier copy-cats like Hedgewarsand GunBound remain a cinch to locate and download today -- for free nonetheless-- while more recent inspirations of Team17’s benchmark strategy game continue to pop up across a variety of modern formats. From Facebook to mobile devices, games such as American McGee’s strive to replicate Worms's massive success, all while attempting to bring something new to the table.

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Super Stickman Golf 2 is one of those strange mobile games which, on the face of it, doesn't really offer anything that noteworthy or exciting - and yet you find yourself sat up blurry-eyed at four in the morning unable to put it down.