3 Great PSVita Games You Should Really Play This Summer – The PSVita’s Game Library Isn’t As Bad As You May Think!
One of the main reasons why the PSVita failed in the West was the lack of worthy games for the systems. As a result, many of those who own a PSVita, myself included, resort to playing emulated games as the system shines in emulating most consoles up to the PSP. However, there are some great titles for the device and in this article, we’ll be looking at 3 that are surely worth playing!
1. God Of War Collection
Do you like Hack and Slash titles but never got around to playing the God Of War series? Or have you played the God Of War series but didn’t bother with the older games?

God Of War I and II are pretty good games which you should play if you like hack and slash titles (Image Source)
If so, God Of War Collection for the PlayStation Vita is surely the right title for you. This collection includes God Of War I and II, both of which are highly acclaimed PlayStation 2 games which received very high ratings in the 9-9.75/10 range when they were released in the mid-to-late 2000s.
Both games are fully intact although some controls, such as for switching to your secondary blade or to invoke the Rage Of The Titans/Gods, are mapped to the touchscreen as the PSVita doesn’t have L3/R3 buttons. When it comes to performance, they run pretty decently at around 30FPS although I personally found God Of War II to be a tad laggy in places but it’s nothing that renders the game unplayable. Furthermore, you can also increase the game’s resolution to 960×544 (from 720×408) with VitaGrafix although the performance will suffer quite a bit.
If you’ve already played both games and want more God Of War, the PSVita can also play God Of War Ghost Of Sparta and God Of War Chains Of Olympus through Adrenaline as they’re both PSP games.
2. Wipeout 2048
When it comes to racing games, the PSVita’s library is quite medicore with only one Need For Speed game (of which I’m not a huge fan), a badly-received Asphalt title and a few others. Thankfully, one of these few others is actually pretty good and that one is Wipeout 2048, a PSVita launch title.

There aren’t many racing games for the PSVita but at least you can play most of the WipeOut series on it! (Image Source)
Like other Wipeout games, you don’t race with cars but with anti-gravity ships on futuristic tracks. Similar to other racing games, this title has many pick-ups that can be collected while racing and they include boosts, shields and a variety of weapons so that you can spice things up while racing. Furthermore, the game also includes a large variety of ships you can choose from that are divided into separate classes which include speed, agility, fighters and prototypes; all of which handle quite differently and aren’t suitable for all tracks. When it comes to graphics, the game looks pretty nice and is probably somewhere between PS2 and PS3 quality.
After you’re done with this one, you can also pick up WipeOut Pure, WipeOut Pulse, WipeOut 3, WipeOut 2097 and the original WipeOut to play on your PSVita via Adrenaline. Now, you can’t say that the PSVita doesn’t have any good racing games available 😉
3. Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
Unlike the other two titles, this one isn’t a console exclusive and it was released pretty late in the PSVita’s life landing on May 17, 2017. This title is an action-adventure game with RPG elements that was originally released in 2013 for iOS devices but was later ported to Android, Windows,PS4, XBOX One, macOS, PSVita and most recently the Nintendo Switch. In this game, your character is that of a young boy trying to find his lost father and defeat Oceanhorn.

Oceanhorn may not initially seem like your cup of tea but it’s a TLZ-like game with very nicely drawn graphics!
The game has you visiting a variety of islands that you travel to by a boat that you navigate yourself in order to complete your quest. On these islands, you’ll find numerous monsters you have to send to oblivion, a lot of treasure and many puzzles that you have to solve but they aren’t too difficult or tedious so playing through them should be a breeze. Furthermore, the game has nicely-drawn colourful graphics and a smooth framerate on most devices you play it on (it even runs well on an iPod Touch 4th generation from 2010) so the PSVita port plays without issue.
Finally, this game is also tiny compared to other PSVita titles coming at just 195MB so it might be a good title to play if your Vita’s memory card is filled up with other games!
Conclusion
It is true that the PSVita’s game library doesn’t contain a lot of appealing games for Western audiences but if one looks around and even ventures into Indie titles, there are quite a few games worth playing. Other than these 3 games, I’d also like to give a shout-out to Persona 4 Golden (an excellent RPG) and Killzone Mercenary (FPS game), both of which are games worth playing if you like their respective genre.
If you know some more PSVita games that are worth playing, make sure you leave a comment below below or on Twitter 🙂
I never thought the PS Vita “lacked” quality videogames. There are far too many on it to mention. Maybe people shouldn’t just listen to whatever the media’s feeding them.
There is few more that I think is worth playing. Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Little Big Planet, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Ratchet And Clank Trilogy, Lord Of The Rings Lego, MotorStorm RC. There is more fun games but don’t remember names anymore and I don’t want Charge my psvita battery to check games names from my psvita memory card. Been long time when I last played psvita games or even touched psvita device
While I agree that Ratchet and Clank Collection contains 3 awesome game, I wouldn’t bother with the Vita version as it has a multitude of issues. Most notable are the almost constant frame rate drops during scenes of intense action. Maybe overclocking would fix that issue. I even bought an L2/R2 cover for my Vita just so I didn’t have to fumble with that lousy rear touch screen.
what kind of article is this? “i have no news, so let me post this 3 games!”. Kotaku worthy
As much as I hate to admit it, it’s true… There are lots of great topics to talk about: underrated homebrew such as VNDS for Vita, PSN flash sale items, deals on hardware across the internet, latest Vita games still being released or announced, etc.
Can’t come up with more than 3 worthy games :’)
Actually i need more worthy games, i can’t find any but these! Do you recommend some more?
FIRST BTW
Luftrausers, Geometry Wars 3, Risk of Rain, Deadbolt, EDF 2017, Resogun, Downwell, and Crypt of the Necrodancer are all great games you may have overlooked.
just play on the switch
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we started to ran out of topic regarding hackes
Who the F said vita library is bad?
Teslagrad
Guacamelle
Severed
Mutant blob attacks
Last survivor
Yomawari night alone
Yomawari midnight shadows
Limbo
Machination
Swapper
Titan souls
Hotline Miami 1 & 2
Another world
Steamworld dig & heist
Papers please
Stardew valley
Undertale
Axiom verge
Shovel knight
Super meat boy
Fez
Volume
Stealth inc 1 & 2
Dex
Unfinished swan
The firefly diary
The PSVita’s Game Library Is Better Than The Switch
I think that the sonic and all the heroes of racing for ps vita is very cool. Angey birds, FIFA 15 are also nice 🙂 .
I thought Oceanhorn was an amazing game, especially on the Vita. Happy to see it made the list.
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Uh, what da heck do you mean’it not as ba…’you know wha? I cant even finish dat garbage you spewn. If it’s so bad why this is the switch keep dipping into their Library?!? The Indie Games the exclusives everybody wants some of this!!!
This is great information. I’ve been busy hacking my vita and playing emulations all the time so I forgot there are great games for the actual vita. I specially like Oceanhorn. Thank you for the article. Keep up the good work.
gravity rush also nice if u like to read
Hi Aurora!
Thanks a lot for these recommandations.
I discovered Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas which is a wonderful title!