Best PSP Games

Dissidia 012 deserves a waaaay higher spot Imho haha

Notable mentions that may not be on many people's lists...

• Exit
• The Third Birthday
• Mercury
• Twisted Metal Head On

Then a nod to the never released Resident Evil Portable that many in the community believe eventually became RE Revelations for 3DS.

I'd add Dungeons and Dragons: Tactics to the list as well as Worms: Open Warfare. Untold Legends: BOTB was a top notch top down dungeon crawler as was Dungeon Siege: ToA (on the PSP-2000/3000 series at least)
I miss the PSP - shame Sony never released most of the catalogue for the PS Vita.

This list is all the feels. I miss this Sony so much

Daxter was better than Jak 2 and 3. Fite me.

Another overlooked game from the indie pool: Pixeljunk Monsters and Fat Princess. They've been reborn a few times and seems archaic now, but they were part of the heart of the PSP.

Jeanne d’arc is one rating short! Tactics Ogre needs another 4.

Lots of great games on this system. Just to name some of my favorites... Ridge Racer, Twisted Metal Head-On, Lumines, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and Logan's Shadow, Resistance Retribution, Killzone Liberation, Ratchet & Clank Size Matters, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Rockband Unplugged, GTA Liberty City Stories, Soul Calibur Broken Destiny, Tekken Dark Resurrection, Kingdom Hearts Birty by Sleep, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, The 3rd Birthday as well as the MLB The Show series Madden NFL 09. Plenty of others as well but those were the ones I spent the most time playing. Very underrated system, imo, liked it much better than the DS.

My psp didn’t have much of a life. I bought it about a week before the vita was announced which was just my luck…
But I played some good games on it, the best in my opinion being Peace Walker.
Runners up would be the two god of war games with Chains of Olympus bring my favourite of the two (just), persona 3 portable which got me into the series and…. Ye. That’s about it. Looking forward to trying crisis core though.

Loved the xmb found it so easy to use.my favourite UI

I have a PSP Go (pearl white!) in the basement I keep meaning to locate…such a slick looking, and playing, device

GHOST OF SPARTA MADE THE TOP 5 ! i’ll take that , it’s one of the best GoW games and my personal fav ; non-stop button mashing , unga-bunga , gameplay at its finest ! 🔥🔥🔥

@Moonmonkey same , i loved the aesthetic of the PS3/PSP . the XMB was so smooth with so many features and amazing themes , and the little ringing sound it used to make when you navigated the menus was timeless .

atleast the PS5 is somewhat reminiscent of sonys stylish aesthetic . i think the ps5 UI is 1000x better than the ps4 and Xbox - though it’s absolutely bare-bones and barren as *****

@NEStalgia i remember getting daxter with the silver psp bundle back in christmas ‘07 as a kid , so i’m inclined to agree with you based off nestalgia alone

Syphon filter was my favourite PSP game, it came out early in the life cycle and amazed me what they managed in a hand held. The GTA games were also great. I feel having the top games all being from 2010 when the PSP was close to dead misses the impact and importance of those earlier games in showing what hand held gaming could be.

PSP is still excellent to this day, I bought a lot of PSP games digitally on Vita and really enjoyed them

I'd add...

Tekken 5 and 6 (These are really great)
The Legend of Heroes
Ys 7 - Ys Oath of Felghana
Tactics Ogre Let us Cling Together
Persona 2
Power Stone Collection
Lunar Silver Star Harmony
Breath of Fire 3
Corpse Party
Mana Khemia
Spectrol Souls
Riviera

Just a few of my faves

Anybody who actually played Metal Gear Acid would know that the 2nd one is far superior while the first, while alright, shouldn't make the list. Also had Jean de arc , Logan's shadow and tactics ogre missing.

Outrun coast 2 coast should be on the list along with Colin McRae rally in my humble opinion but then again I don't play RPGs at all so what do I know

I worked in game retail during the PSP launch. It was a great time to be a store manager because those systems just flew off the shelves as soon as someone saw it running. Such an amazing system. Myself and my colleagues spent hours creating the ugliest possible characters in Tiger Woods and then playing some incredible golf action. The fidelity and physics on a handheld were mind blowing at the time. Wonderful days.

Grand theft auto liberty city stories.grand theft autovice city stories.daxter.resistance retribution.dead head fred.final fantasy crisis core.god of war chains of olympus. God of war ghost of sparta.metal gear peacewalker.pursuit force. Kingdom hearts birth by sleep.etc.word up son

PSP had tons of AAA games. If only Sony had put the same effort into Vita, which I loved, but it did not have the same caliber of AAA games like PSP did.

Syphon filter dark mirror and Syphon filter logan shadow is amazing.word up son

@ChrisDeku I loved that one so much.

That was a stunning game. I still play my PSP today because of WipEout and the GTA Stories games. Chinatown Wars was better on DS IMO.

"The PSP was also notable for its pioneering XMB interface"

Actually, it 1st appeared in a Japanese PS2 VCR called the PSX

Ys: The Oath in Felghana and Corpse Party are nowhere to be seen. Absolutely scandalous. For a long time, the latter was my go-to tech demo for the potential 3D audio had in horror games.

Dracula X Chronicles is kind of a mediocre remake of Rondo of Blood, but the fact that it had both SotN and a fully english-translated version of Rondo hidden inside was reason enough to purchase it.

Would anyone recommend getting PSP and or PS Vita and why?

A good list overall, but there are a couple other PSP games I can think of that deserve just as much recognition. Namely Star Ocean: Second Evolution and Jeanne D'arc. Both of those were excellent JRPGs, the former of which is a solid remaster of what many people consider the very best Star Ocean game.

tactics ogre let us cling together should be on this list. it was a psp exclusive for 11 years and is arguably the best sjrpg on the platform. looks like we might be gettting a remaster soon though.

as for mgs peace walker and portable ops, they are good games, but are borderline unplayable on the psp due to shoddy performance and horrible controls. the controls really are a dealbreaker.

I can't believe TxK isn't even in the list.

One of my favorite PSP games.
Pop'n Music Portable 2

No Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky 1 or 2. Lame.

Happy to see Jean D'Arc so high. My biggest time sink on psp

"The PSP was also notable for its pioneering XMB interface, which would later be adopted by the PS3 as well."

Little know but interesting factoid (to me, anyways): the XMB pre-dated the PSP. The first iteration appeared on the Playstation 2, specifically the PSX which was a Japan-only turbocharged PS2 with digital video recording capabilities. It looks like a huge white TiVo and was the most "fully featured" version of that console.

I'd add crash tag team racing & midnight club 3 dub edition

@UnlimitedSevens just searched it I always thought it was just another name for ps1 but your right doesn't look anything like any of the ps2's either

Katamari, Gitaroo Man, Outrun, Lumines?

@KnightRider1982
Because they have lots of games, of varying quality, and you can play them when not home and with no internet. Go for the VITA of course, you can still play all the psp games (plus the VITA games have trophy support).

Very nice, although what ps vita can do better than the psp is full on ps4 remote play throughout wifi and I cherish it the most on the go!

Can someone explain why Dissidia has a rating of 8, while 012, which is effectively a straight upgrade, has a score of 6.7? 🤔

Nice list otherwise, a lot of solid titles from a range of genres and devs that showcase the strength of the PSP’s library (though admittedly I’ve only played a half dozen of the titles mentioned).

@thetraditional a portable ps4 (or ps3 for that matter) in the style of a switch would be awesome.

My wife, my son and I have recently tracked down a trio of PSP-3000 series consoles and have been picking up some absolute bargain UMDs for a few quid each - Worms: Open Warfare 1 & 2, Lego Star Wars: The Original Trilogy, etc.

It's true that I still prefer playing PSP digital titles on my Vita but there's no getting away from the classic mini-discs that never got onto the PS Store and those lovely, colourful, chunky consoles.

Fine list. I'd put Crush, EchoShift or Mercury for puzzle games myself. Disagea 2 maybe for tactics. I don't know enough about Jeandarc or others. Coded Arms is the best shooter/roguelike in a time when we didn't have many like the Indie focus on them these days of roguelike/lites. The other noteble games are in the list of course. Not sure what racing I'd put over GT PSP (other than IP name it's a terrible entry every other racing game on the PSP is better than it for content so GT PSP is a worthless entry here) or Midnight Club though. Toca 2&3 or an NFS game maybe.

Tekken: Dark Ressurection was probably my favourite game, but besides that this list is pretty good.

I've gotten back into PSP lately, having bought a replacement one at work and purchasing some new games for it. But redownloading games has been a pain because of the limited store and outdated Wi-Fi.

In terms of games, I'd like to add Final Fantasy Type-O to the list. Sure, it never came out in English on PSP, but it's still a top-shelf game regardless.

Easily my favourite console of all time and I would argue the first console that truly ushered in the modern age of gaming. I cannot speak for other regions but in the UK it had the web browser, direct DLC downloading, downloadable demos, a multimedia emphasis and an actual useable OS rather than just a memory management system. The fact it was on a handheld was even better. In 2005 it was a slice of the future.

I don't have the console anymore but I quite happily emulate all my existing discs and PSN purchases on PPSSPP on Android.

Its a great top list missing only IMO Lumines which I consider the best falling block puzzle title ever made. Honourable mentions include Outrun 2006, Test Drive Unlimited (They squashed the whole of Oahu onto a UMD) and Phantasy Star Portable 2, the only good installment* since the Dreamcast original.

The console was also peak Sony, by which I mean that lovely way they release pieces of consumer electronics that look so cool, are way ahead of their time and cost an absolute fortune. By this I mean the Location.Free capability that meant with the right hardware you could (in 2006) watch Live TV from your home anywhere in the world streamed to your PSP. I also had all the dorky addons like the camera, GPS module (which had Sat-Nav software in Europe!) and the buggy-but-clever Talkman game.

Mega Man Powered Up needs more votes! It definitely deserves to be here!

Looks at list, sees many repeats of series. The obvious big titles and barely much in-between. Yep it's a fan/reviewer list alright. Sigh.

My Top 5 would be Shining Hearts, Phantasy Star Portable 1 & 2, Tekken 5 - Dark Resurrection, and Final Fantasy Reishiki.

Then there's other good stuff like Prinny, Tales of the World - Radiant Mythology, Ys 3 & 7, Tengai Makyou - Daiyon no Mokushiroku, Strike Witches - Hakugin no Tsubasa...

And let's not forget the huge selection of PSOne Classics. You could end up spending more time on those than actual PSP games. The Japanese store even has a solid number of PC Engine games. They've got some nasty input lag, though, but it's not unplayable. Accessing the Japanese store on a Vita/PSTV won't be possible, though, if you've already connected it to a western PSN account. I got a second PSTV myself just so I could get the Japan exclusive stuff.