DS Games

It's all about the doors you choose when you play Nine Persons; Deathtrap Cruise. Seriously though, it's a text-driven adventure that delivers dangerous thrills.

This cutesy 2D adventure game has some neat, well thought-out gameplay ideas, and a good deal of polish. Crazy strategic depth and silky-smooth gameplay combine to make this one a ...

The insanely popular and better-than-bad LEGO Star Wars series returns, this time covering the Clone Wars that were featured in the popular animated series.

Taking the insanely popular LEGO franchise and combining it with the insanely popular Harry Potter franchise, we are left with LEGO Harry Potter and a game that covers the first ...

The novel this is based on, originally released in 1936, is a cracking yarn, but this digital version is barely more interactive than its paperback origin, and infinitely more annoying.

Based on the popular kids show and card game, this action-RPG expands the show's universe with a plot by writers from the TV series.

A new sleuth game from the makers of Hotel Dusk with the neat trick of analyzing a crime scene in the present while also seeing the events that transpired there ...

Based on a popular book, this Poke meets Harry Potter mash-up will be enjoyed by kids, but is probably best avoided by older gamers who aren’t obsessed with flying lizards.

A spin-off to the quintessential "underappreciated gem," this Okami side-story features a puppy-sized version of the dog god and the child of two of the main characters in the first ...

Shantae: Risky’s Revenge is the perfect platformer. It’s proof that the 2D side-scrolling formula still holds up after all these years. The characters are fun and quirky, the story is ...

From the minds behind the Ace Attorney series, this new title is about a ghost trying to help the living and find out how he died.

It may seem like a straightforward tile-sliding puzzle game, but an emphasis on story and the ability to create your own levels might just keep this one interesting enough to ...

If you don’t mind sitting for hours, eyes inches from the screen, this is every bit as good as Mystery Case Files: Millionheir and the likes.

A family game that imparts the history of the Romans in a kid-friendly way, we're guessing it has no feeding Christians to lions or crucifixions.

Full of minigames, touchscreen item searching, and a quickly finished story mode, had the game focused on just one (at a push, two) of these disparate bits it might have ...

The drawings are in the same brilliantly detailed style as the books, but they’re wasted on such small screens. It’s nice to see a developer bothering to make a good ...

Even if you’re not a fan of the demented bunnies this is the best example of the physics puzzle genre we’ve seen in ages, though the menu screen music nearly ...

Solve cases (with deadly intent, of course) in this mystery game from Ubisoft and Other Ocean based on the CBS Drama.

It’s a packed cart that includes the text of the book as well as ‘advent calendar’ puzzles that unlock in the run-up to Christmas (fiddle with the DS’ internal clock ...

Based on the same-titled movie, Aliens in the Attic for DS puts players in the shoes of the movie’s main characters who are overrun by aliens on their family vacation ...

Appalling voice acting makes this feel very shoddy, though with the sound turned down it’s a passable "entry level" point 'n' clicker if you can find it cheap.

In this condescendingly easy adventure game, the story isn’t strong enough to keep mystery fans interested, and the gameplay isn’t really good enough to warrant anyone else playing it.

If we were to judge this based entirely on the opening city fly-by, we might say it was one of the most impressive DS games we’ve ever seen. Unfortunately we’re ...

Build your own monster trucks and battle AI and friends in the combat heavy adventure.

Players assume the role of Aragorn and embark on a single player quest reliving his greatest battles from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. This action combat game allows fans ...