Mini Game Pack

As self explanatory game titles go, Mini Game Pack beats them all. If you're expecting a collection – perhaps even a Pack - of mini-games you'd be absolutely spot on. If the developers wanted to be even more descriptive they could have called it Really Quite Fun Mini Game Pack Featuring Cute Animals, but that may have been a little long-winded.

And Mini Game Pack is anything but long-winded. Korean mobile gaming giant Com2us has pulled together seven of the most charmingly simple nuggets of gameplay you're likely to find.

From boinging a kitty into the sky on a trampoline to sprinting around a twisty race course with a penguin, you'll be taken through a veritable cartoon Olympics as you strive to unlock each of the nine playable characters. Once unlocked each animal can be selected for any of the events, with each participant possessing their own strengths and weaknesses.

Control is strictly of the one-button variety, a swift press of the thumb-stick being the only control used throughout each of the events. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the game is the amount of variety and required skill that has been channeled through such a basic control system.

For example, the Hurdle event (Rumble Run) requires a simple depression of the thumb-stick to – you guessed it – hurdle over objects (or on this occasion other cutesy animals), but a further layer is added when some of these friends take it upon themselves to jump. Quick decisions need to be made as to whether you should hurdle as they return to the ground or just run right underneath them as they hang in mid-air. It's hardly Mensa-level stuff, but it keeps things just interesting enough to keep you coming back for more.

It helps that the presentation of Mini Game Pack is an absolute delight. The cute, brightly coloured characters are perfectly off-set by the almost minimalistic backgrounds. It's all perfectly judged, ensuring that your eyes are always clearly focused where they should be. Such restraint is especially welcome as the in-game characters are rendered extremely small, and would be totally lost if the backgrounds were any busier.

As with all mini-game collections, some of the events work better than others. For every tactile Trampoline event there's a bafflingly fiddly iteration of Snake, in which Com2us have somehow conspired to make the simplest and most widely familiar of mobile games feel awkward and, well, not very fun.

Also common to such collections is the inevitably short lifespan, but it really can't be criticised for that too much. You will find yourself coming back to the game for a quick two minute blast here and there, just to try and pip a long-standing high score.

Mini Game Pack, with its simple premise and perfectly conceived controls, comes recommended for any mobile gamer.

The sugar-sweet coating covers just enough substance to satisfy, warranting a surprising number of repeat plays. Certainly there are a couple of duds in the mix, which stands as a considerable minus given the small number of events in total. Overall, however, the colour and sheer joyfulness of Com2us's offering shines through.