Jack Heath

Boomerang Fu appears simple at first. You pick a cute character - avocado, ice cream, bacon - and then you chop up all the other characters with your razor-sharp boomerang. There are only three buttons to learn. You'll be slicing and dicing your friends (or bots, if you have no friends) within 60 seconds of downloading the game. But soon you'll discover the powerups, which combine in surprising and spectacular ways. Teleport from one side of the arena to the other, disguise yourself as a tree, then leap out of the shadows in time to fling an exploding boomerang right into the eggplant's smug face. Be warned, this strategy can backfire hilariously - you might accidentally burn down the forest you're hiding in. You'll also start to notice the sadistic level design. You're not just fighting the other players, you're fighting the arena itself, which might attempt to drown you, crush you under a stone pillar, or send you sliding across a patch of ice over the edge of a cliff. I sank a lot of hours into the demo version of Boomerang Fu, and the full game has so much more. With catchy music, beautiful art and instant replays of your best kills, I think I'll be playing this for years to come.