"It's a cross between an adventure game and carpet bowls..." From such a startling mix comes 'The Big Roll in Paradise', created by Symbian legends Infinite Dreams and reviewed here by Ewan Spence. The core engine is a physics-perfect implementation of Bocce, in which you throw a jack and then vie with another player to throw your bocce/boules to roll closest to it. Accessible to casual players but with long term goals for more serious gamers - and with mini-games and side-quests to enjoy along the way, The Big Roll in Paradise comes highly recommended, it seems. The introductory 'free' offer may be over, but it's still a steal at £1.50.

Ewan writes:

Wrapped up in that simple game are a huge amount of tactics and strategies you can use – for example, you might want to throw one of your bocces “long” to stop your opponent knocking the jack away to the back of the playing field should you be the closest; you'll need to avoid having your bocces clustered together because they could be smashed away; if you get super close to the jack you might want to roll a bocce “short” so that the jack can't be pushed away... lots to do and decide at each move.

Each round is therefore quite short (it doesn't take long to throw four bocces each), and each game is normally to five or eight points in The Big Roll, so they don't take long to play, but still have a huge amount of tactical depth to them. I like that in a mobile game.

You can read the full review here.