Sony PlayStation Vita

Vita's launch trump card; Nathan Drake proved that a big adventure can fit in your pocket.

The most distinctive game in the early Vita catalog; heroine Kat changes the direction of gravity as if in a dream.

An uncompromising first-person shooter on a handheld; the player is a mercenary working for both sides.

A world made entirely of paper that speaks to the player through the Vita's camera. Media Molecule's originality.

Sackboy's platformer made of fabric and cardboard, brought to a handheld where it fits perhaps even better.

Dark cooperative hunting; a living book narrates the battles, the player decides the fate of souls.

A dystopia where existence itself is a crime; the player reduces a million-year sentence mission by mission.

The last installment of the anti-gravity series; a return to the racing's origins right in the streets of cities.

The master thief travels through time to save the family book of tricks; released simultaneously with the PS3 version.

A major adventure tailored for the Vita; the heroine is Aveline de Grandpré, an exception in the series.

Two ambitious Metal Gear Solid games in reworked resolution, squeezed into your pocket.

Ryu Hayabusa's uncompromising action in portable form; the game demands absolutely precise combat rhythm.

A remake of Vanillaware's action game from the Wii; two intertwined stories in Japan's Genroku era.

An arcade beat 'em up combined with RPG progression; six classes, dungeons, and Vanillaware's signature style.

An action RPG from Nihon Falcom made directly for the Vita; progressing through the game means drawing the map of the forest.

Combat by dragging your finger across the screen, designed specifically for touch; inaccuracy is punished harshly.

An expanded version of the cult JRPG from the PS2; possibly the strongest reason to get a Vita.

The most accessible entry point into the extensive Trails series; students of the Thors Military Academy.

Two great games from the PlayStation 2 era in one package; Tidus and Yuna against a threat called Sin.

A rework of an action RPG from the late PS2 era; one of the most beautiful titles in the Vita's library.

A hunting action game from Omega Force built on Japanese mythology and demons called Oni.

A turn-based JRPG that restored Digimon's good reputation even among players with no connection to the series.

An expanded tactical RPG from Nippon Ichi; the vampire Valvatorez, who eats only sardines instead of blood.

The alchemist Rorona handles ordinary commissions instead of saving the world; the first part of Gust's trilogy.

An old-school first-person dungeon crawler; rising rent pushes you to progress quickly.

According to many fans, the pinnacle of the Ys series; the shipwrecked Adol builds a camp on a forbidden island.

A classic Japanese roguelike, rarely released in the West; Shiren seeks a path to the tower of fate.

A deadly game at an elite academy, where murder investigations decide life and death.

The same deadly game of Monokuma, this time on a tropical island with its own carefully crafted setting.

A no-holds-barred reset of the series; new rules and a willingness to question everything players thought they knew about it.

Nine people, a game of trust and betrayal, and escape rooms; one of the reasons to get a Vita.

The harshest conclusion of the Zero Escape trilogy; three teams, erased memory, and decisions about who lives.

One of the best-known visual novels; a group from Akihabara accidentally invents a time machine.

A branch into a timeline where the main hero failed; instead of a confident tinkerer, an introverted student.

Closes out the horror series about a cursed school; the first entry made specifically for the Vita.

A search for a girl whose existence has no records; a quiet, melancholic detective story.

A romance novel set in steampunk London; a girl with poisonous skin and a group of heroes.

A heroine with no memories pretends to remember her own life. An otome game with a good idea.

One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time; a traveling salesman in the land of the dead.

A comedic classic of the genre; three friends get stuck each in a different era after a failed attempt at time travel.

A wordless Czech adventure game that conquered the world with its art style; a robot searches for the way home.

A puzzle solved only through taps, swipes, and tilting the console; there's no direct control.

A music puzzle game where the track grows with every colored square cleared.

A metroidvania dressed in Mexican folklore; luchador masks, humor, and brawls.

A hand-painted platformer built on the UbiArt engine; the screen feels like a children's book come to life.

An improved successor to Origins with a richer palette of worlds and even more generous content.

A tribute to the eight-bit era, where a pogo-bounce with a shovel is a weapon, a movement tool, and almost a philosophy.

A metroidvania made by a single developer; oppressive and mysterious like a classic of the 16-bit era.

A roguelike platformer where the caves regenerate on every descent; death is instant.

A hybrid of a vertical shooter and a platformer with a teleporting ship; it excels at both.

Digging, platforming, and gradual upgrades; it can be finished in a single evening.

Two-dimensional skateboarding built on precise trick timing, not luck.

A seemingly 2D platformer that turns into a 3D puzzle when you rotate the view by 90 degrees.

A story told about colored rectangles; minimalism that can genuinely move you.

A roguelite where, after the hero dies, their descendant takes over the game with their own mutation.

A two-dimensional Souls game; the same weight, an interconnected world, and storytelling through items.

A platformer where collected notes directly compose the level's playing track.

The first major dual-stick FPS on a handheld; the Chimera invasion of America.

A third-person action game built on short missions and chasing a better score.

A vast looter shooter squeezed into your pocket without losing its weapon generation.

A fast three-on-three team fighting game with assists; an ace of the Vita's launch lineup.

A crossover of two fighting-game giants; Tekken characters translated into the Street Fighter plane.

A return to the 2D plane of combat and to the fatalities that once sparked a moral panic.

Battles of DC heroes in a dark alternate reality where Superman becomes a tyrant.

A stylized 2D fighting game with hand-drawn sprites and animation like an anime series come to life.

A fighting game built on a strike-throw-counter triangle; even the arenas themselves are dangerous.

A merciless action game starring the ninja Ryu Hayabusa; even an ordinary enemy kills quickly.

Two key chapters of Kratos's revenge against the gods of Olympus in one package.

Arcade defense of a planet against waves of asteroids; the weapon has to match the type of fragment.

A brutal top-down action game; one hit kills, and the restart comes instantly.

The open world of Fairhaven with no loading, brought to your pocket without losing scope.

Sony's launch classic; drifting pulled off with a sharp wrench of the wheel and nitro floored.

The wild off-road series shrunk down to RC models, viewed from above for a perfect line.

The first full-fledged Formula 1 simulator with licensed teams on a handheld.

A licensed motorcycle championship from the junior class all the way to the premier class.

Kart racing combined with a track editor drawn by finger on the display.

The last full-fledged football entry on the Vita, with career mode and team card collecting.

Arcade tennis where the player mainly manages timing and shot direction, while the game handles movement.

Cartoon golf with a three-stage swing; surprising depth beneath the cheerful surface.

The characters from Persona 4 dance against the supernatural; rhythm gameplay delivered as a visual novel.

A rhythm game with virtual Vocaloid singers; the melodies are created through voice synthesis.

A rhythm game controlled purely by touch on the display; a distinctive piece of the Vita's library.

The monkey in the ball doesn't move on its own; you tilt the whole world and gravity does the rest.

A trio of adventures that shift from a colorful platformer into a darker open world.

The original PS2 trilogy, where crazy weapons matter just as much as platforming.

A platformer combined with stealth; instead of shootouts, it's about slipping past guards.

A direct sequel to the first game; Rean gathers the scattered Class VII after the civil war.

A tactical RPG set at a demon academy, where the model student is the one who breaks the rules.

A remake of an older handheld game; the first chance for Western players to experience this Tales entry.

A cute celebration of the entire Final Fantasy series built around catching Mirage monsters.

What if the Dragon Quest hero lost? The player then rebuilds the world piece by piece.

A new era of the alchemist series; a welcoming starting point for anyone put off by its reputation.

A cursed bloodline dies out after two years; the player doesn't guide a single hero but entire generations of descendants.

Falcom combines action-adventure with school life and rifts into another dimension.

You command a mercenary company amid a war between four powers; managing your unit is the core.

A tactical RPG known for its uncompromising difficulty and raw, austere story.

After a plane crash, the hero wakes up in a strange world and becomes a monster hunter.

A classic dungeon crawler set beneath the streets of modern Tokyo, full of monsters.

An expanded version of the hunting action game, where fighters devour giant Aragami with living weapons.

A hybrid of an extensive visual novel and tactical battles as the culmination of each chapter.

A brutal sequel with even faster clashes, this time told through a mosaic of multiple characters.

A cooperative top-down shooter; a squad of four soldiers calls in stratagems and watches the mission clock.

An arcade shooter on the inner wall of a cylinder, where rescuing civilians interrupts the shooting.

A hypnotic shooter from Jeff Minter; a ship shoots down enemies crawling out of a tube.

A giant 2D sandbox of mining and building, where better tools open up deeper layers.

The entire blocky world of Minecraft shrunk down into a handheld console and still working.

A reworked cult roguelike, where a crying boy fights monsters with his tears.

An isometric action game where the path literally builds itself beneath your feet, narrated by a storyteller.

A wordless black-and-white platformer; a boy searches for his sister using only image and sound.

Shantae loses her magic and has to make do with pirate gear she's plundered.

2D skateboard tricks in movie sets; manuals link individual tricks together.

Arcade racing where the vehicle transforms on the fly between a car, a boat, and a plane.

An eight-bit-looking top-down action game, full of references to nineties pop culture.

The player acts as a border checkpoint officer deciding on entry, while the rules keep growing day by day.

An attempt to bring Call of Duty to a handheld without studios Treyarch or Infinity Ward.

A fast-paced action MMORPG with your own avatar and squads of up to four players.

A purely single-player spin-off from the online series - dungeons and a light-hearted story.

A spin-off that turns the series' slow horror into an action dungeon crawler with a top-down view.

A Vita launch title making full use of the gyroscope and rear touchpad for controls.

A card-game spin-off turns the action series Uncharted into a calm tactical game.

Launchový titul PS Vita, který měl ukázat, co dotyková obrazovka umí v závodech.

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