Lemmings: a port for those disillusioned with the everswirling storm of gaming. Ever enchanting, and always ready to offer a challenge, Lemmings has sat in the background for years, reappearing every now and again to remind folk that the puzzling genre, despite a lack of innovation over the years, has an awful lot to offer. Most of us started with the game many years ago, and we’re happy to report that bar a few unobtrusive additions, it’s pretty much the same. Whilst you may be switching off about now, thinking you’ve had all the Lemmings can offer you, we can assure you that it’s well worth a download, as the 100 levels you’re buying are a mixture of the best of the old and the new, delivering a simultaneous hit of nostalgia and bafflement to your underworked brain.

The two new additions, namely cloning machines and teleporters serve nicely to raise the puzzling element above what you immediately expect of the franchise, and they’ve been included well. Sometimes there doesn’t seem too much point to them, and on occasion the teleporters can make life that much more complicated, requiring you to flit about the screen with irritating frequency, but these are isolated instances. It looks lovely and it challenges parts of the brain that few other puzzlers can reach, making it an almost essential purchase for anyone who’s ever loved the little green rodents.

Tom Leclerc