Reedu: The First Explorer

If buying Cut the Rope is like picking up a polished title at your local video game retailer, Reedu is like obtaining a copy of something you've never heard of from a dodgy-looking stranger at your local car boot sale.

Ugly, bugged, glitchy, and even flat-out broken in places, this amateurish science-fiction flick-screen adventure leaves you bemused about why it exists.

You're supposed to be an explorer, the Reedu of the title, mapping an alien planet.

But - even ignoring the bugs - there's nothing in this woeful game that feels like it's worth the effort of discovering, with hackneyed art design, bland audio, and a lack of any real immersion.

You move through the world of Veridia from one static screen to the next, as you did in classic adventure titles like Myst.

The difference is that those games made sure you could always work out where your next step would take you, while Reedu fails to get even this right. The views from two successive locations often plainly don't match up - a clumsy error on Nomuda's part that frequently leaves you lost and frustrated.

The production values are terrible, with dull, lifeless visuals and a forgettable score. Worst of all, Reedu is riddled with bugs, from menu screens that won't close to a fatal glitch that means it's impossible to beat one of the mini-games you have to complete to progress.

If you want a first-person adventure on your phone, Motalen's Infernus series, though annoyingly short, beats Reedu hollow.