If you can't think of anything new, just turn up the production values, throw a bit of blood around and make everybody take their shirts off. Worked for 300, and it works for Hippolyta.

Hippolyta is an on-rails action game in which you, a fugitive Amazonian princess, air your dislike for Greek civilization and clothes by running down a lot of Hoplites. Hit W to jump over obstacles, S to duck under branches, A to shield yourself from arrows and space bar to spear pugnacious pedestrians.

Watch out, conscientious parents. That's her birthday suit she's wearing. Best pack little Johnny off to bed first.

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A rolling ball puzzler from the creator of the Civiballs games, Jolls is - unsurprisingly - quite like the Civiballs games. The difference is that rather than trying to roll the balls into amphoras, you must roll big ones into bubble-bound smaller ones of the same colour.

Point and click to put a ball in play. There are power-up icons to reverse gravity, swell your balls to sumo wrestling dimensions and such. Jolly, jolly good.

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That's a drug reference in the headline, just in case you didn't get it. Redder is good for a fair few drug references. It's a brightly-coloured, low gravity platform-exploration game with a far-out synth soundtrack. Getting the munchies yet?

Players must restore their spacecraft by collecting all the crystals scattered across a tumble-down alien facility. Green switches make green blocks solidify while orange ones disappear. Orange switches do the opposite. Checkpoints are plentiful, so don't sweat it too hard if you get shot.

The similarly-styled Raider has more plot and fewer soft spots.

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One part fairground coconut shy to two parts on-rails blaster, Windhawk is about ridding the sky of every combat helicopter save your own. Point, click, soak up the 3D backdrop facades and try not to let anything return fire.

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It's a busy life at the top. Mario's been in more games than Jesus (probably not all that shocking a statement, now I think about it) and the flood doesn't seem to be drying up. If we were him, we'd have faked our death and retired to an uncharted Caribbean island by now.

Go on, Mario - one more before you don that hula skirt.

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Rabbit wanted Cake, and now Robot wants Cat. Want, want, want. And meanwhile, children in countless impoverished nations drop dead for lack of a clean water supply. (Ludicrous social commentary ends... now.)

Robot wants Cat is a rather brilliantly self-contained run-and-jumper in which you, a weeny robot, try to slake your thirst for feline company. The cat doesn't get any say in the matter, no. This involves navigating one large level-puzzle, enhancing your capabilities floating power-up icon by floating power-up icon.

Brought to you by the publishers of the equally awesome One Button Bob.

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