13 Best Action 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.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a marvelous Action Role-playing, Puzzle-Platform and Single-player video game developed and published by Konami. It is the direct sequel to Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and includes the son of Dracula named Alucard as the protagonist. The game focuses on side-scroll, exploration, and role-playing element. You play as the protagonist, and your main objective is to travel the Dracula’s castle and defeat the antagonist Dracula. It has non-linear gameplay, but most of the areas in Castle requires specific items to unlock. Earn points by uncovering the castles and unlock a map that shows you progress. There are a variety of levels and each level filled with different creatures and the boss Dracula. Use different weapons and items to kill the foes and reach at the end of each level to complete. The game becomes challenging as you progress through it and must face most dangerous foes and boss. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and addictive story, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is the best puzzle platform game as compared to others platform games.

Hotline Miami is an Action, Violent, Top-down, and Single-player Shooter video game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place in the fictional world Miami in 1989 and follows tow protagonists named Biker and Jacket. According to the story, the protagonist receives a calls who instruct them to start operation against the Local Russian Mafia. You can select your character and dive into the game world where you can explore it from top-down perspective with stealth element. As the story progress, the game becomes more challenging violent and you have to face different challenges such as powerful foes, and objectives. The entire game is divided into several chapters and each chapter has a set of several stages. Explore each level, obtain power-ups, score the highest points and unlock further content. Slaughter the members of Russian mafia using different weapons and keep your city clean from them. With breathtaking story, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Hotline Miami is the best game to play and enjoy.

Wolfenstein is an Action, First-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game for hardcore players. The game is available on multiple platforms, developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. It takes place in the WWII-themed world known as Isenstadt. According to the story, the Nazis enforces the martial law to excavate the valuable Nachtsonne crystal to get access the Black Sun dimension. As the game progresses, the population of the world including military start turning into strange creatures. The city consists of various locations including a farm, a hospital, sewers, an underground mining facility, etc. You can get into the role of the protagonist, and your ultimate task is to navigate the environment from the first-person perspective, fight against enemies and strange creatures using deadly weapons and kill them to earn points. Interact with NPCs, and uncover hidden levels. Collect power-ups to enhance your abilities and fulfill your all objectives to become the master. There are different modes such as Stopwatch, Team Deathmatch, Objective, etc. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Shovel Knight is a Retro style 2D Side-scrolling Action and Platform video game by Yacht Club Games. The game offers an 8-Bit retro game inspired gameplay in which it allows the players to be the great Shovel Knight who goes on an adventure to rescue his friend, Shield Knight. Shield Knight gets clutched by the dastardly foes, and the only person who can liberate Shield Knight is the Shovel Knight. The players are tasked to get into the role of Shovel Knight, traverse through a 2D retro world, encounter the foes and kill them to keep on moving towards the goal. As describes the name, Shovel Knight lets the players have a Shovel as their primary weapon and use it against the enemies while jumping, running and through the platforms. With a side-scrolling view, Shovel Knight lets the players enjoy an amazingly addictive gameplay, beautiful 2D graphics and amazing encounters with the enemies at the same time. With an entirely satisfying gameplay and all the well-crafted platform fun, Shovel Knight offers an experience similar to the biggest names in retro gaming such as DuckTales, Mega Man and provides an NES-style environment and much more to discover. For an amazing 2D Retro Platforming experience, do play this game and enjoy the ultimate fun.

Salt and Sanctuary offers an Action Role-playing, and Platformer gameplay created and published by Ska Studios. The game has an exciting story, revolving around the protagonist who travels around the world in a ship that is also loaded with a princess from an unnamed territory who is to be married to the king of opposing country to prevent war. A team of marauders attacks the ship, slaughtering the crew. After killing the group of murderers, the protagonist escapes to the deck with the princess where they discover the giant sea monster known as Cthulhu. After the ship wrecked, the protagonist reaches to a mysterious Island where he must face deadly creatures, fight against them and complete a set of missions to earn points to progress. As the game advances, other levels will be unlocked to play. The game introduces more than 600 weapons, armor pieces and lots of items to use during the gameplay. With the realistic environment, superb mechanics, Role-playing elements, and smooth controls, Salt and Sanctuary is the exciting game to play.

Machinarium is a wonderful Point and Click Puzzle and Graphic Adventure video game by Amanita Design. The basic objective of the game is to solve a series of challenging puzzles and brain teasers by the use of your intuition and puzzle solving skills. Machinarium offers a Unique Story, a challenging game-play along with best visuals. According to the storyline, your task in the game is to solve a number of challenging puzzles, go through a series of obstacles, use your wit and Point and Click skills to get out of difficult situations and enjoy immersing yourself into a gameplay in which every thing is linked by an Overworld. Machinarium offers a dialogue based gameplay and allows you to interact with the written statements in order to perform the tasks and keep on playing until you are finished with all of the exciting game levels. With an amazing two-tier hint system, walkthroughs, loads of mini games, beautiful visuals, a truly very well written storyline and exciting gameplay, Machinarium is a fun Point and Click Puzzle-platform video 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.

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.

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.

Suikoden II is an Action, Role-playing and Single-player video game created and published by Konami. It is the second game in the series of Suikoden and takes place after the event of the original game and revolves around on an invasion by the Highland’s Kingdom of the City known as Jowston. You can get into the role of the protagonist whose name is selected by you. According to the story, the protagonist is adopted by Genkaku, who is a hero and served his services to rescue the fictional land of Jowston in a massive war against Highland many years ago. The game combines the elements of strategy and lets you control the protagonist and travel through various locations around the globe, complete a series of tasks and interact with NPCs. You are also able to create new characters to accomplish sidequest. The gameplay becomes challenging as you gain experience. There are three types of combat such as Regular Battles, Duels, and Massive Battles. With superb gameplay, well-written story and brilliant mechanics, Suikoden II os the best game to play. Try it out, and you’ll love it.