17 Best Action Adventure Games for PS Vita

Rayman Legends is an Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game created by Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Casablanca. The game provides with a similar game-play to Rayman Origins and allows up to 4 players for a simultaneous game-play in which you can explore dungeons, haunted lands and fight against vampires, ghosts, and the living dead etc. Rayman Legends provides with 120 levels of pure awesomeness, additional Lums and Teensies. This super cool re-mastered version of the game actually is a war going on between the Teensies and their nightmares so you must get up from you 100 yearlong sleep, encounter the nightmares and the Dark Teensies and free the 10 princesses and the good Teensies. Rayman Legends is a great Action-Adventure, and Puzzle platformer video game, do try it out.

Little Big Planet (LBP) is a beautiful Action-Adventure and puzzle platform video game created by Media Molecule. This game is mostly based on user created content and that is why it is played, created and shared at the same time. Till date, this game can only be played on PlayStation alone or with your friends online on the same console. Little Big Planet consists of five games in the series. The game offers a number of fantastic characters including all the inhibitants of Litle Big Planet and themain character “The Sack Boy”. In order to complete the objectives, Little big Planet tasks you to traverse through amazing and beautiful environments, solve a number of challenging puzzles and enjoy beautifully embedded Platforming elements. Little Big Planet offers beautiful visuals and sounds, an objective-based story and an immersive game-play to enjoy.

Limbo is an award winning Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by PlayDead. The game offers wonderfully immersive game-play and lets you enjoy a Side-Scrolling marvel in which your task is to be a little kid, travel through a dark jungle, solve a number of puzzles in order to carry on your way and defeat some nasty monsters to survive. Huge Spiders, Bear Traps, Dark passages, machine enemies and anti-gravity guns are some of the obstacles that you are destined to go through, remain on your course and get out of this God-forsaken world and eventually find your missing sister. With a mesmerizing and amazing environment, brilliant visuals and an addictive and challenging game-play, Limbo is quite fun to play.

Terraria 2 is an Action-Adventure, Survival, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Re-Logic and published by 505 Games. The game combines the elements of Side-scroll, Sandbox, crafting, exploration, and combat. You assume the role of the protagonist, and your primary goal is to manipulate the 2D randomly generated the world. You can start the game with three primary tools such as a sword for combat, a pickaxe for mining and an axe for woodcutting. Explore the world, collect resources, craft useful items and fulfill challenging tasks to progress through the game. It becomes difficult, as you advanced. There are a variety of items available, and you can find them only in certain areas of the map, stored in rare and common containers. Craft new items, and use different items to take down enemies. Slimes, Demon eyes, Zombies, Region-specific Enemies, etc. are prominent foes in the game. Score the highest points and use them to unlock further content in the game. With brilliant mechanics, addictive gameplay and superb visuals, Terraria 2 is an excellent game to play and enjoy.

Jak and Daxter is a video game series by Naughty Dogs and Sony Computer Entertainment. It combines the elements of Platform, Action-Adventure, Racing and Third-person Shooter. The series takes place in the fictional universe that comprises science fantasy elements and focuses on the protagonists and their efforts to unearth the secrets of the world and the mysteries which is left behind by the horrible race known as Precursors. The series centered on story-based Platform gameplay and lets the player navigate environments and fight against various foes using melee attacks. It includes a substance known as Eco which can enhance the abilities of the character. Eco is available in different colors and each with different effects. Explore different scenarios, fight against enemies, use different weapons, and save your world by destroying. There are many games in the series, and each entry has different gameplay, foes, missions, and tasks. The protagonist can run, jump, move in any direction and can use melee attacks and weapons to take down his enemies. The franchise offers some games such as The Precursor Legacy, Jak II, Jak 3, Jak X: Combat Racing, Daxter, The Lost Frontier, Jak and Daxter Collection and more. With detailed Environment, Stunning Visuals, Engaging Gameplay, and Superb Mechanics, Jak and Daxter is the wonderful game video game series to play and enjoy.

Child of Light by Ubisoft Montreal is a marvelous Action-Adventure, Indie and Puzzle-Platform video game that tells the story of a young girl named Aurora who in the year 1895 awakens on the lands of Lemuria. After waking up she finds out that she is a long way from home, starts off her journey to her home but soon realizes that in order to reach home she’ll have to go through a Dark world filled with Dark Creatures of the evil queen of the Night. You are required to get into the role of Aurora, fight off all the Dark Creatures, Defeat the Queen of Night and free the Sun in order to bring light to the realm and finally reach home. Child of Light offers a great story filled with wonders, surreal visuals and sounds and an immersive game-play for you to play and enjoy. If you really want to play a really good game of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform genres, Child of Light is best for you. It offers a brilliantly immersive gameplay, a well-written story and a lot of other great things to enjoy.

Terraria is an open world Action-Adventure, Survival RPG and Voxel-based Sandbox video game set in a 2D game world. The game lets you be part of the game world with three basic tools, a pickaxe, a sword and a wood cutting axe and allows you to explore, gather resources and fight off your enemies. The game world is filled with things that would like to slay you so you need to be a bit more careful while exploring. As the game mainly focuses on night time game-play, the enemies attack at night, so you must be a bit more attentive to the details and your surroundings. Combats are normally melee type so you will have a better chance of earning the XP points that will help you buy some upgrades. Because of being a 2D game, Terraria seems a bit different than other sandbox games, but it isn’t actually. You’ll experience almost the same game-play and a lot of other exciting things. Terraria is available to play on multiple platforms.

Rogue Legacy, developed by Cellar Door games is an Action-Adventure, Rogue-like RTS and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game provides with tons of engaging and quite addictive game-play that includes randomly generated dungeons, a lot of different types of enemies, Bosses with unique combat abilities and techniques, four epic game settlements to explore, collect items and kill your enemies. Rogue Legacy also includes secondary abilities for the players like Magic, and different elemental attacks that cause serious damage to the enemy. If you die in the game, all of your HP shrinks to zero and all your abilities are then transferred to a secondary player who continues your adventure until the last player, when the last player dies, the game ends. Rogue Legacy provides with great level details, clean graphics and an amazingly engaging game-play.

Dante’s Inferno is a fantastic Single and Multiplayer Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game by Visceral Games and Artificial Mind and Movement. The game features the protagonist Dante, a Crusader laced up with his primary weapon Death Scythe and the Holy Cross. According to the Storyline, Dante goes on a mission to eliminate the Hell’s Minions and engages into epic Combats, Platform and environmental Puzzles. The story takes another turn when the King goes on to search for a Holy Relic that is hidden under the folds of mystic environments. The king entrusts Dante with all the prisoners but Dante kills the Prisoners and the King sends him to find the Holy Relic as to punish him. Dante embarks on an epic journey to find the Holy Relic and reaches down to the Palace of King Saladin where he gets stabbed multiple times by the Assassins. Wounded badly, Dante returns back to Florence, Italy to his Father and his one true Love Beatrice, but instead finds them dead. Beatrice’s Soul appears in front of him and tells him all about how she and Dante’s father got killed. Dante Vows to revenge and descends into an opening into the ground at the spot where Hell and Earth borders. Dante reaches to the Hell’s Gate where he encounters the Minions of Lucifer, starts killing them selflessly, encounters Lucifer and kills him after a series of fast-paced and Action-filled melee combats. Dante then finds the Holy Relic and the game concludes. With a very interesting story, state of the art visuals and a super thrilling game-play, Dante’s Inferno is a wonderful game to play.

God of War is the first game in the God of War series and focuses on Combo-based Combat. The game combines the elements of Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, Platform and Puzzle. It lets you control the protagonist named Kratos and jump into the game world where you must fight against evil forces to save your kingdom. God of War takes place in an ancient world populated by the Olympian gods, and other beings. The game offers six fictional locations to explore such as the Aegean Sea, the city of Athens, Desert of Lost Souls, Temple of Pandora, the land of underworld and more. According to the story, the protagonist serves the gods of Olympian. Kratos received a task from the goddess named Athena to kill Ares, the god of War, who tricked the protagonist into killing his beloved daughter and wife. The game embarks you on an adventure to take revenge from goddess to the murder of your wife and daughter. It has a series of missions you must complete at any cost. The primary weapons of the character are the blade and chaos a pair of blades fixed to the chain. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics, exciting story, God of War is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Murder mystery and a visual novel video game that sets you up into the character of “Makoto Naegi”, a student of “Hope’s Peak Academy”. He gets trapped in a game of Mutual killing of his students. Your duty is to help “Makoto” investigate and find the clues and solve the murder mystery that is actually based up on twisted events. The game holds a chapter wise story so you’ll see two different styles of game-plays. In order to complete the game objective, you must interact with the environment, NPCs, objects and set the course of every possible ending of the game.

Sid Meier’s Pirates! is an Action-Adventure, Strategy, and Single-player video game developed and published by MicroPose. The game revolves around the life of a privateer, a pirate hunter, or a pirate in the 16th century. It takes place in the Caribbean and includes different locations such as Central America, Gulf of Mexico, etc. including Bermuda. Select your role and get into the game world where you can sail anywhere around the given locations to hunt treasure, face deadly challenges, and fight against foes using different tools. There are different levels, and each level has its unique gameplay that you have to complete at any cost to earn reputation points. Overcome obstacles, trade with other pirates, and gather different resources. It offers an open-sea environment where you have to accomplish a set of tasks to complete the game’ levels. The ultimate task is to become the best pirate in history by scoring the highest points. Participates in sea battles and lead your crew to fight and dominate your foes. With superb mechanics, addictive gameplay, and wonderful features, Sid Meier’s Pirates! is the best game to play and enjoy.

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins developed by Acquire is an Action-Adventure, Stealth and Single-player video game available to play on PlayStation platform. The game combines the elements of Third-person perspective, Fantasy, Fighting and Fantasy and takes place in the sixteenth century. It cast you in the role of the one of two ninjas such as Rikimaru and Ayame, who worked for lord Gohda. The game puts you on an epic quests, in which you have to fight against enemies using your mighty sword, and rank-up your level by defeating the enemies and accomplishing your tasks. It revolves around the element of stealth and lets you attack enemy and take down silently. There are different levels and each level offers a unique scenery. Explore the fantasy world, interact with NPCs, and fight against opponents to progress. The game offers different tasks in the beginning to increasing the difficulty such as Deliver the Secret Message, Punish the Evil Merchant, Rescue the Captive Ninja, Cross the Check Point and more. The game looks easy but hard to master. With superb gameplay, attractive soundtracks, and brilliant controls, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins is the best game to play and enjoy.

Spelunky is an Indie, Rogue-like Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and RPG video game developed by Derek Yu. The game lets you be a Spelunker in the game world who gets tasked with exploring a great number of tunnels/caves, collecting different items, saving the damsels and killing the enemies. You can kill the enemy by using your whip on him or by simply jumping on his head just like you did in Mario games. Spelunky provides with four different game worlds and a number of randomly generated game levels filled with a lot of exciting things. The game awards you with points on every enemy kill and finding new treasure, area, valuable and location etc. The enemies in the game include snakes, yetis, man eating plants, ghosts etc. and each of them requires a unique set of skills for you to kill them, so you must use your earned points to buy upgrades regularly or else you’ll get killed by any of your gruesome enemies. The amazing rogue-like game environment makes it more fun to play and enjoy. Try it out.

God of War: Ghost of Sparta is an Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and Single-player video game produced by Ready at Dawn and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was the first entry for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) and the sixth title in the series of God of War based on Greek Mythology. The game takes place in an ancient Greece and cast the player in the role of the protagonist named as Kratos, who is the god of war. According to the story, the protagonist is still threatened by the evil vision of his past mortal life, and he decides to navigate his origins. The protagonist encounters his mother who claims that his brother is alive. The protagonist then set out himself on an epic adventure against brutal enemies to save his brother. The game offers the similar gameplay to its previous entries and centers on combo-based combat. Kratos equips with his primary weapons such as the Blades of Athena and secondary weapons like a sword. It combines the elements of Platform and puzzle elements. God of War: Ghost of Sparta offers prominent features such as challenging Missions, Exploration, Third-person Combat, powerful Enemies and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Parasite Eve is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Shooting elements developed and published by Square. It serves as the first title in the series and revolves around the police officer named as Aya Brea of New York City and her effort to fend off the monster by destroying the human race. The player can take on the role of the female protagonist who can move freely around multiple open environments while participating in real-time combat along role-playing elements. The character equips with multiple weapons, and the player can use to kill monsters and strange creatures. In the start, the game looks easy but after progressing it becomes tough to manipulate. Encounter various creatures, kill them to complete several levels and save the humanity to become the hero. During the exploration, the player interacts with non-player characters to progress and explore the environment from a third-person perspective. With brilliant gameplay, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics, Parasite Eve is the best game to play and enjoy.

SteamWorld Dig is an Action-Adventure, Platform and Single-player Mining video game with Metroidvania developed and published by Image and Form. The game cast you in the role of the protagonist named as Rusty, a lone mining steam-bot who arrives at an old town. It takes place in the underground environment, and your task is to dig the old earth, search valuables while unearthing the threat. Steampunk and Western themes inspire the game, and the game introduces an underground world full of terrors, treasure, and mysteries. It consists of a variety of levels, and each level offers a challenging gameplay with challenging objectives. Control the character and start navigating the environment from side-scroll view, avoid hurdles, unleash power-ups and find treasure to progress through the game. Use your points to unlock further content in the game and become the master. SteamWorld Dig offers prominent features such as a Rich World, Underground Environment, Human Civilization, Degenerated Races, and more. SteamWorld Dig is the best Platform game to play and enjoy.