Over the past year, I have conducted what could be considered the most “extensive” dive into the library of games available on the Playstation Vita. How this occurred is that, upon hearing the close of the Vita’s PSN store, I looked up all of the games that were released on the system digital-only (Along with some other games I had for other reasons), and downloaded all the ones that looked interesting. However, uncertain if I actually wanted to keep these games and back them up, I played the first 15 minutes of every single one of them. This list is the result of this activity. It should be noted that this list only comprises Vita and PSM games (And, not every single ones). If you do not see a game listed, assume I did not play it. Also, I will be breaking this list down into five categories: “Good” (Meaning the game is worth playing), “Recommended” (Meaning that the game is worth looking into or I had fun with it), “Average” (Meaning that the game is okay, or have trouble recommending it), “It tried” (Meaning that the game has barely enough effort put into it), and “Bad” (Meaning stay away).
Also, attached to this post are screenshots of some of the games listed.
Good
>Adventures of Mana
A full 3D remake of Final Fantasy Adventure designed to be more accurate to the original game unlike it’s earlier GBA remake which tried to make the game more in line with the later Mana titles.
>Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed
An open-world beat em up where you strip vampires to defeat them.
>Assault Gunners
A mecha TPS, it just looks and plays cool.
>Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
An accurate Castlevania clone by Inti Creates and produced by Igarashi of Symphony of the Night fame.
>Bunny Must Die: Chelsea and the 7 Devils
A tough as nails Metroidvania where a bunny girl is trying to remove a curse placed upon her.
>Chaos Rings
A Square Enix RPG series by Media.Vision (Wild Arms) that's inspired by the PS1/PS2 era Final Fantasy titles.
>Chiebura
A unique shmup with a great pixel art style where you cling to different pegs and shoot at evil bath toys.
>CounterSpy
A 1960’s inspired side-scrolling stealth game.
>Damascus Gear
A series of isometric dungeon-crawlers where you customize a mech and go hunting.
>Dead or Alive 5+
Base DoA5 (Not Ultimate or Last Round) with some exclusive features.
>Deadbolt
A side-scrolling run’n’gun stealth game where you clear buildings of enemies.
>Desert Ashes
An Advanced Wars clone with a post-apocalyptic fantasy creatures.
>Downwell
A reverse shmup where you see how far into a well you can go with different guns strapped to your feet.
>Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition
It's Duke Nukem 3D with all of the content from the previous expansions and online leaderboards and multiplayer.
>Freedom Wars
A Monster Hunter clone where you battle with rival cities and their giant robots for Earth's last resources.
>Gal Gunvolt
An NES Mega-Man clone that crosses over with Azure Strike Gunvolt, Mighty No. 9, and Gal*Gun.
>Garou: Mark of the Wolves
The original Neo Geo fighting game with online multiplayer and some of display options.
>Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R
The final revision of GGXX^C+ with a story that continues after the events of GGXX(#R/S).
>Gundemoniums
A side-scrolling shump where you’re a witch with magical guns
>Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd
A QTE rhythm game where you unlock more songs when you get a “perfect”, also allows you to make custom music videos with your own songs.
>Hitman Go: Definitive Edition
A turn-based stealth board game where you try to get from point A to B in the fewest moves possible.
>Hotline Miami
A top-down run and gun game where you clear buildings of Russian gangsters.
>Hyperdimension Neptunia – Re;Birth1
A remake of the PS3 original that's a spoof on the console wars between Microsoft, Nintendo, Sega, and Sony.
>Iconoclasts
A Metroidvania with a beatiful art style and smooth gameplay
>Jet Set Radio
It's the Dreamcast classic on the Vita with online leaderboards.
>Lumines: Electronic Symphony
The puzzle rhythm game where you drop blocks and have the speed and visuals change with the music.
>Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes
A slight “remake” of Desert Ashes with more dynamic visuals.
>Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition
It's Minecraft for the Vita.
>Need for Speed: Most Wanted
An open-world racing game where you drive the fastest cars against the meanest opponents, all while being chased by the cops.
>Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
A remake of the PS1 original with new graphics and cutscenes.
>Pocket God VS Desert Ashes
A sequel to Desert Ashes with the same gameplay and a crossover into the world of Pocket God.
>Rabi-Ribi
A Metroidvania where a bunny girl tries to find her master.
>Rayman Origins
The return of the classic franchise with fast platforming and action.
>Retro City Rampage DX+
A classic GTA clone in the style of an NES game with a bunch of crazy action, weapons, and references.
>Sine Mora
A dramatic shmup about a war between anthropomorphic animals.
>Spelunker Collection
A collection consisting of the original Spelunker, the NES remake, the arcade remake, and the arcade sequel.
>Super Robot Taisen
A remake of the original Game Boy game that began the series with updated graphics and some new robots.
>Terraria
The side-scrolling Minecraft knock-off.
>The Pinball Arcade
A pinball simulator where you play on dozens of real pinball tables.
>The Wolf Among Us
The adventure game where you're a werewolf private investigator looking into various issues with the magical community.
>Titan Souls
A dungeon-crawler where you kill various bosses armed only with a single arrow that you can recall.
>Toukiden 2
A Monster Hunter clone from Koei Tecmo that's based on Japanese mythology.
>Under Night In-Birth Exe;Late[st]
The previous update of the original anime fighter from French Bread.
>Vasara Collection
A compilation of both of the Vasara shmups that are about mechas in Waring States period Japan.
>Volume
A top-down stealth game where a kid messes around with VR missions.
>WipEout 2048
A “prequel” to the Zero-G racing series, and also comes with the WipEout HD and Fury tracks as DLC.
>XCOM: Enemy Unknown Plus
A strategy series where you take on an alien invasion with the expansion and some bonus content.
Recommended
>1001 Spikes
A puzzle platformer with NES-style graphics where you try to navigate through all of the difficult stages without losing your 1001 lives.
>2064: Read Only Memories
<I heard that this game was pozzed, but there was nothing actually “wrong” with it during the first 15 minutes
An adventure game inspired by Kojima’s classic Snatcher with some nice pastel art.
>Adventure Bay Labyrinth
A Mystery Dungeon roguelike with a nice pixel-art style.
>AeternoBlade
A side-scrolling hack and slash where you use time(?).
>Appli Archives G-Mode Burger Time
An emulated collection of the i-Mode remake of the Burger Time arcade game, Pucchin Puzzle, and Snowboard Man.
>Appli Archives Jaleco City Connection
An emulated collection of the i-Mode remake of the City Connection arcade game and it's i-Mode sequel, City Connection Rocket.
>Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender DX
A side-scrolling submarine shooter where defending milk drillers from robotic fish.
>Assassin’s Creed Chronicles
A side-scrolling stealth game where sneak around Ancient China, India, and October Revolution Russia
>Attractio
A first-person puzzle game that’s also a game show.
>Axiom Verge
A Metroid clone, that’s it.
>Bastion
An isometric dungeon-crawling RPG where you explore a floating world.
>Behind You
A simple stealth game where a little girl tries to sneak past guards.
>Borderlands 2
It's open-world FPS RPG on the Vita with the first two expansion packs.
>Chasm
A Metroidvania about a knight exploring a mysterious chasm.
>Chronus Arc
A Kemco published RPG where you do I don’t know what, but I do like the art and music.
>Curse of the Crescent Isle DX
A GBC inspired platformer that plays similar to Super Mario 2.
>Darkest Dungeon
An edgy side-scrolling RPG where you’re trying to get to the bottom of a manor’s crypt.
>Dead Nation
A top-down dungeon crawler where you’re trying to survive the zombie apocalypse.
>Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Venus
The volleyball and mini-game collection with all of your favorite DoA characters in bikinis.
>Demon Gaze
A first-person dungeon-crawling RPG with objectives and monster catching.
>Dustforce
A side-scrolling platformer where you clean the dust off of the floors, walls, and ceilings.
>Entwined
A tunnel-type of game where you pass through colored panels to turn a fish and a bird into a dragon.
>Fez
A side-scrolling 3D based platformer.
>Flower
You're a floating petal causing other flowers to bloom and collect more petals.
>Fragment's Note
A visual novel where your daughter travels back in time to improve your dating life.
>Frozen Synapse Prime
A top-down turn-based stealth game where you try to survive through various levels and defeat enemies.
>Full Throttle Remastered
An adventure game where you play as a biker, is considered a “classic”.
>Fushigi no Gensoukyou TOD: RELOADED
A Myserty Dungeon RPG staring your favorite 2hu characters.
>Galatea
An exploration game where your a sub collecting artifacts from undersea tunnels.
>Grim Fandango Remastered
An adventure game where you sell clients different packages after they die, considered LucasArts swansong.
>Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
A sequel to the title with the same basic gameplay, and with some new twists on it.
>Infinita Strada
A TCG with cute girs.
>Injustice: Gods Among Us - Ultimate Edition
The “complete” version of Injustice with all of the DLC and extra content.
>Kick & Fennick
A platformer where a boy navigates through dangerous environments by blasting around levels with a laser gun.
>Knock-Knock
A hide-and-seek horror game where you are stalked by the creatures of the woods.
>Lara Croft Go
A turn-based adventure game where you solve environmental puzzles.
>Luftrausers
A shmup where you upgrade your pane with different attributes to take out other planes and battleships.
>Malicous Rebirth
A cross between Mega-Man, Alien Soldier, and the Musou games, where you defeat different bosses in any order by first defeating their onslaught of minions attacking you.
>Metagal
A Mega-Man X clone where you play as a cute robot girl.
>Miko Gakkou Mongatari: Kaede Episode
An RPG where you're trying to make peace between humans and youkai.
>Mononoke Slashdown
A 2D hack and slash where you defeat skeleton samurai with different objectives every level.
>Monster Monpiece
A strategy card game where you have different monster girls that battle each other.
>Musync
A DJMax clone with Chinese and Japanese music.
>NightCry
A quirky horror adventure game from the creator of the Clock Tower series.
>OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood
A side-scrolling skateboard game with the goal of reaching the end of the level with the most points possible.
>Oukaranman
A simple game where the hero's goal is to make all of the cherry blossom trees in the level bloom.
>Pachi Pachi On-A-Roll
A pachinko game where you undress both of the girls on display the more you hit certain slots.
>Papers, Please
A Socialist border crossing simulator.
>Phantasy Star Nova
A sci-fi ARPG where you're stranded on a planet and have to survive
>Rayman Legends
The fast-based Rayman gameplay with a touch-screen companion added to the mix.
>Reel Fishing: Master's Challenge
A fishing game where you remember days past and catch fish.
>Resogun
A side-scrolling shmup where you trying to save as many humans as you can in each level.
>Risk of Rain
A randomly generated platformer where you crash on a world and collect artifacts.
>Scram Kitty DX
A shmup where you grind along a rail shooting at everything that moves and finding lost kittens.
>Space Hulk
A grid-based turn-based strategy game where you kill anything that moves.
>Stealth Inc.: A Clone in the Dark
A side-scrolling stealth game where you try to navigate the extremely deadly environment.
>Sword of Rapier
An ARPG with a very interactive set of abilities despite a very primitive look.
>Teslagrad
A side-scrolling platformer where you solve puzzles and defeat enemies with magnets.
>The Sun & Moon
A puzzle platformer where you're a blob who can traverse through the floor and walls.
>Tokyo Jungle Mobile
A grid-based action game where you're an animal trying to survive in a now deserted Tokyo.
>TxK
A shmup where you shoot at the spiky objects coming up the shapes you're attached to.
>Unicorn Savior
<Can be played on Vita TV, but don't recommend it
A touch screen shooter where you switch between weapons to defeat the sentinels coming to attack.
>VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
A visual novel where you mix drinks for customers at a bar in the cyberpunk future.
Average
>@Simple V Series Vol. 1 - The Dokodemo Gal Mahjong
It’s a simple mahjong game against 3D (Not PD) women, and you can flirt with the girls, not much else to say about it.
>@Simple V Series Vol. 2: The Tousou Highway Full Boost - Nagoya-Tokyo Gekisou 4-Jikan
A remake of the PS2 original, where you hijack cars and run from the police for the purposes of saving your secretary within the four hour time limit.
>0000
A monotone arcade platformer with one-hit deaths where you need to collect the keycard to unlock the door to each level.
>0War
A turn-based space-battle RPG, with literal moving JPGs, where you buy new ships to defeat the increasingly difficult enemies in every stage.
>99 Vidas
A Latino side-scrolling Beat Em Up that looks similar to the Scott Pilgrim game that everyone loved from about a decade ago.
>A Hole New World
A Castlevania clone with the gimmick that pits take you to an upside-down world.
>A Winter’s Daydream
A visual novel where a kid tries to fudge his grandmother.
>Alien Breed
A top-down shooter where you investigate a space station filled with xenomorphs.
>Alvastia Chronicles
A Kemco published RPG where you do I don’t know what.
>Ambition of the Slimes
A SRPG where slimes possess opponents to use them against other opponents.
>Appli Archives Jaleco Argus & Field Combat
An emulated collection of the i-Mode remakes of the arcade games Argus, Buta-san, Exerion, and Field Combat.
>Appli Archives Jaleco Momoko 1200%
An emulated collection of the two part run and gun cellphone game where a little girl shoots bullets at squidheads.
>Appli Archives NIS Duologue
An emulated copy the RPG cellphone game where the protagonist of the game is apparently having an identity crisis.
>Appli Archives NIS MiniGamePack 1
An emulated collection of Go Down The Hill, The Elingers Puzzle DX, and The Throwing Prinnies
>Appli Archives Team Rise Vol. 6
An emulated collection of HumanFly 1 & 2 and CIA Sniper DX, the latter being the only thing worth playing.
>Aqualibrium
A primitive puzzle game where you’re trying to get all of the water to fill the meter as soon as is possible.
>Asdivine
A Kemco published RPG series where you do I don’t know what, but battles have fully animated sprites.
>Awesome Pea
A “retro-hard” platform with insta-death and a double jumping Pea
>Awesome Pea 2
Another “retro-hard” platform with insta-death and a double jumping Pea
>Badland: Game of the Year Edition
You’re a floating puffball trying to survive to the end of the stage.
>Bagu Desu: Debagga Kentei
A mini-game where you're presented a series of scenarios in video games with the goal of “breaking” the game.
>Beast Slider
A puzzle game where you slide tiles that can then result in them playing the correct beat.
>Beats Trellis
A beatbox app with a wide variety of instruments and sounds that can be produced.
>Big Dipper
A Russian visual novel about love.
>Bucket Knight
A retro-inspire platformer where you play as a knight with a bucket helmet and a gun.
>Chimpact
A simple smartophone game where you catapult a monkey around a forest to get gems and bananas.
>Chronovolt
A puzzle game where you control a time-altering orb.
>Citizens of Earth
An Earthbound inspired RPG where you’re the president of the world.
>Claire: Extended Cut
A side-scrolling horror game where you play as a woman and have a dog.
>Crazy Market
An arcade experience cashier simulator
>Curse ‘N Chaos
An arcade Beat Em up where you’re trying to kill all manner of fantasy spooks.
>Deep Space Rush
A side-scrolling randomly generated run and gun game.
>Demon’s Tier+
A top-down dungeon-crawling RPG where you collect monsters you defeat and add them to your party.
>Dex: Enhanced Edition
A side-scrolling ARPG based in a cyberpunk world.
>Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock
A side-scrolling puzzle platformer starring the Doctor from the BBC TV show.
>Dogimegi Inryoku-Chan: Love & Peace
A puzzle game where you try to clear the level of monsters by slinging them together.
>Don't Starve: Giant Edition
A Socialist survive simulator in the woods with crafting and giant demonic spiders.
>Dragon Fantasy
A series of JRPGs that's parodying your typical Dragon Quest RPG.
>Dragon Sinker
A Kemco published RPG where you do I don’t know what.
>Duck Souls+
An insta-death platformer where you play as a duck with a homing attack.
>Dungeon Punks
A Beat em Up RPG where you build a party and go on missions.
>Dying: Reborn
A first-person horror adventure game where you solve puzzles.
>Ecolibrium
A nature preserve simulator where you raise and grown alien animals and plants and try to reach a balance.
>Element4l
A side-scrolling puzzle platformer where a block transitions between different states of matter.
>Emil's Task
A level-based RPG where you clear each floor.
>Escape Plan
A puzzle adventure game where try to escape some factory using the different gimmicks of the Vita.
>escapeVektor
Sort of a stealth game where you try to avoid guards along a series of wires.
>Eufloria
A colonization sim where you send plant seeds out to colonize other planets.
>Exile’s End
A Super Metroid clone where you crash land on an alien planet.