Rating: 4 out of 5

Malinche presently have four titles available. Pictured on the above is The First Mile which is billed as a chilling work of horror fiction that will scare you half to death. Despite being a little bit spooky we did manage to get through it without the lights on, how brave are we? These games make use of the iPods notes feature and all of them are text based only.

Like most horror stories the first mile starts out simply enough. You're driving cross country to relocate to a new job. Your gas tank is almost empty and your stomach is too. After stopping at a gas station you witness a murder and things start to go from bad to worse. This is without a doubt Malinches best title and at times things get so bad it can really send a shiver down your spine.

The other titles in the Malinche range are Greystone which is a murder mystery adventure. After you've built your case through discovery of evidence and establishment of motive, make your arrest. Just make sure you have the right man and he won't walk on a technicality. With forty different endings, it's is a murder mystery that will challenge you like never before.

Pentari is a fantasy adventure, a work of interactive fiction where anything is possible and everything is worth a try. You are the hero in this adventure and your every move will mean salvation or total destruction for everything you hold dear.

In Endgame you play the captain of a naval destroyer.

The games are very expensive coming in at $19.95 although they will run on lots of different platforms. There is a specialist iPod version of Petari which costs only $9.95. Malinche do offer a 30 day money back gaurantee though. Just because we think they're expensive don't just take our word for it.