Sony was very indie-focused during the PS Vita's early years, but once that started shifting with the rise of the PS4, support for the PS Vita began to dry up. When Sony announced they would be stopping development on first-party PS Vita games in , it felt like Sony had given up on supporting the platform at all, especially to the developers still working on the console.
It's already been years since the store was refreshed," says Thomas Altenburger, developer at Flying Oak Games, the team behind recent Vita release Scourgebringer.
Altenburger is very aware that the Vita store's 'new releases' page is frozen in the past, which heavily reflects sales.
For him, it's not even clear as to why Sony is leaving the store open at all. The decision to overturn the closure came after fans had expressed their disappointment in the closure, at which point Sony decided to leave the PS3 and PS Vita stores open while maintaining the closure of the PSP store. Of course, removing the store would have consequences, whether or not new games can be released on it.
There are a bevy of digital titles that would be entirely lost without still existing on the store, and their loss would be a massive blow to the video game preservation effort. Not only that, but as Altenburger points out, these games would be in a position many older titles now find themselves in: stuck in a state in which they can't be released or played again legally.
This wouldn't be as big of an issue, of course, if Sony had some sort of preservation solution. Although emulation is a popular way through which fans enjoy old inaccessible retro games, it's not a real solution in any way. I don't think that anyone will take this risk. The PS Vita will always be remembered by its fans, but also by the developers who poured themselves into this device for the community.
For Joseph Brown, it's the role the handheld played during its time in the industry. Thomas Altenburger, however, best sums up the Vita and why it's worth remembering, when asked why Flying Oak Games released a PS Vita game in in the first place. Besides the challenge that was to even bring the game to the Vita, and being able to utilize the handheld's features for a unique gameplay experience, there was one core reason.
As of July , it is no longer possible to publish games for PlayStation Vita However it wasn't surprising news for everyone; Brown said "the writing has definitely been on the wall for a while now," and UnMetal developer Francisco Tellez de Meneses, said he was made aware of the decision by Sony a year before it happened.
Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story will be Suzaku's only PS Vita game now that the store has shut down Altenburger is very aware that the Vita store's 'new releases' page is frozen in the past, which heavily reflects sales. Enter your email address. Latest comments There are no comments on this article yet.
Why not be the first to post one? Awesome Pea 2 - the next chapter of the classic platformer game. Greedy Pea is back! Now even more dark dungeons, deadly traps and gold! Crack the code to reveal the quote in this classic cryptogram puzzle.
Decrypt the ciphers to find funny and inspirational messages. The Mittu star system enjoyed a long period of prosperity, and was watched over by three powerful beings who shared their unique skillsets and technologies across three worlds for millenia.
From out of nowhere, a Demon Army of immense power appeared suddenly and began invading these planets, slaughtering countless innocents and causing fear and paranoia in the godlike rulers of each world.
On the planet of Altair, the first spacecraft in Mittu's history has been constructed, with the hopes that its crew can find something in the Mittu star system to end the war against the Demon Army. Thosgar, a hated king attracted by demonic rituals, turned into a dark and diabolical being This story became a legend and peace returned to the land.
Thousand years later, a mysterious pit appears in a village after a huge earthquake where an evil aura emanates from Will you be the hero to save this world?
Wake up, Hakuowlo. It's time to face the world again. You come to in bed, gravely injured, attended by a girl with twitching furry ears and a lush, bushy tail. In time you come to lead the villagers, to whom you owe your name and your life. When the local nobles threaten them, you threaten the nobility right back Are you a farmer?
A scholar? A traitor? A beast? You've forgotten your past, but has it forgotten you? Command your comrades and fight to defend your family, and discover the secrets of this worldand your own lost history! User Score: 9. Thy Sword is a hack n' slash platformer with procedural levels and roguelike elements. You, bold adventurer, must break the tyranny of the Dark Overlord. Your quest will be to obtain the ancient crystals of power with which to overcome the Dark Overlord's rule.
Can you be that hero? Can you fulfil the destiny of greatness and bring deliverance to these shadowed lands? The answer lies in your heart Emma: Lost in Memories is a 2D puzzle platformer game in which all the platforms and walls start disappearing progressively as you touch them. Think, strategize, run, jump and feel in a surreal and poetic world where everything fades away.
Reed awakens Reed failed. The reboot failed and now the digital world is once again breaking down. Before the old supercomputer malfunctioned, it gave Reed backup files that must be delivered to the Developer. Collect information cubes once again in a desolate version of the last remnants of the digital world. Dodge floor spikes, razor blades, enemies, and wall arrows to reach the next stage! Find hidden survivors trying to escape from the new horrors of the corruption.
The virtual world is now doomed, can you get to the Developer? Active Neurons is a game that trains the player in spatial logical thinking. By controlling the power of thought, you must charge the neurons. The more the neurons are charged, the healthier the brain becomes.
The healthier the brain becomes, the more of a fully-fledged life the person will live. It may seem simple, but it won't be as simple as it seems. To choose the direction of movement, the power of thought should be at rest, so it is important for you to correctly use the obstacles presented on every level. Think, make a decision, and look for the right path to the neurons in order to charge them.
Tondbert, loyal Guard to the Castle of Wrinklewood, is having a rough day. A little too much ale at the local pub, a lapse in judgement, and the next thing you know a hooded figure has slipped into the kingdom and kidnapped the princess -- an event that will have consequences well into the future. A thousand years later, in a small orbital station, Agent Starborn is a member of a resistance group embarking on a last ditch effort to overthrow evil and take back the Earth -- a quest rooted in the depths of history.
Discover how these two playable characters' fates are intertwined and you might just save humanity in the process. As the nephew of a retired super villain, there's nothing Keegan wants more than to become one himself and what better way than to join the League of Evil? All he needs to do is commit a crime to complete his application. Unfortunately, Keegan soon finds himself in more trouble than he could have ever imagined when his plans are interrupted by a couple of spies from opposing agencies.
Pick choices that drastically change the story. Will Keegan's plans be thwarted or allow him to be successful? Rush Rover is a 2D top-down shooter game. Compared to other similar games of the genre, the shooting experience is closer to traditional shoot'em up games. It includes random map generation, unique weapons, lots of different enemies, exciting boss battles and a dynamic chiptune soundtrack.
In the universe of Rush Over, intelligent robots and mining exploration have spread over every known galaxy. After the war of independence against humanity, these highly intelligent and powerful machines attempt to rule over everything so they start hacking other robots. You control a "clean" mining rover, picking up weapons and rushing to survive! Wurroom is an interactive art experience born in the minds of two holographic entities: Michael Rfdshir and Serge Bulat. You are just a cursor-Hand, lost in the undefined hyper wonderland, where visions, thoughts, and ideas from your subconscious, intermix with the fragments of "other", inexperienced worlds.
Or am I the leading force behind all this, the one that could shake the core of this strange place?! Wurroom is an immersive experience into a surreal utopia, disguised as a short exploration adventure game. The hero is a mouse cursor; an ordinary Hand, becoming aware of its power over the strange Imaginarium. Wurroom is not just a game, it's an artistic collision between the minds of Michael Rifdshir and Serge Bulat; a metaphysical island created for the coexistence of ideas about art, nature, science, and Mind; all to question reality, and make a boundaryless new one.
It is designed to reveal things about ourselves and measure our imagination. Everything you see in Wurroom is handmade; the claymated universe brought to live by stop-frame animation. The music is the gluing force and the true master of this extraordinary world. Once you close your eyes, the world becomes you.
But beware of the truth The game plays you to learn about its very existence. In Battle Rockets, each player chooses a side — literally! Are you head-to-heady? From the creators of the award winning platform game League of Evil comes Ravenous Games' new action platformer Random Heroes!!
Monsters from another dimension are trying to take over Earth. Blast your way through these invaders in this action platformer! Collect coins and upgrade your weapons and characters to become stronger, faster and more lethal! Choose your hero and save the world! Requires iOS 3. Challenge your puzzle solving expectations to save a robot lost on a strange planet! Guide the adorable robot "B" because he looks like a Bee to safety after he crash lands on a strange cubic planet.
Explore each level, rotating it in 3D to see all sides, looking for a way through to the goal. Make use of lifts and slide platforms to get around while looking out for dangers.
Think outside of the box to find solutions sometimes in unconventional ways to find a way forward. You'll be amazed at what's possible and necessary! The United States sends generation ships to nearby star systems to find new planets to colonize. But once in interstellar space, the ships mysteriously disappear. When clues emerge about the missing spacecraft, two pilots jump through a wormhole into a story-driven brick breaker in the spirit of Arkanoid and Breakout.
User Score: 8. Duck Souls is a fast-paced, action platformer about a little duck with an incredible skill to dash and a mission: find all the lost eggs in order to save his species. Duck Souls is set in cute and deadly fantasy world, where many hazards will try to cut your wings off your body while you struggle to find all lost eggs, and keep your species alive. Run, jump and dash through a colorful and treacherous environment to save everyone and become a hero. Explosive Jake - classic arade game.
Not only humans afraid of dark and deep dungeons. Our hero - a little skeleton with unhealthy crave of explosions, which trying to escape from castle dungeons. Help him to avoid enemies and explode his way out. Epic Word Search puzzles are huge! Each puzzle contains over 1, words, hidden in a grid that's much too large to fit on screen! To solve the word search you'll have to scroll around the puzzle looking for words.
Use the D-Pad or Circle Pad to move the grid and touch with the stylus to highlight words. This is a challenge like nothing you've ever seen before with many hours of gameplay in each enormous puzzle. Epic Word Search Collection contains five gigantic puzzles!
An old man escapes from the clinic where he spent his whole life and returns home. He remembers his childhood. His toys. His monsters. Breeder Homegrown is a short horror game about a family dealing with a strange creature over several generations.
You will encounter some puzzles but the game relies mostly on atmosphere, music and dialogues. Perfect for people who enjoyed games like To the Moon or Undertale and want to spend an hour having a similar experience. This is the Director's Cut version of Breeder Homegrown. Dialogues have been streamlined, some issues have been fixed and if you look close enough, you might find some new little surprises.
In a magical town there lives a candy alchemist, Syrup, who one day discovers a candy golem in her basement. Where did she come from? Who could've made her? Go find out! Featuring a memorable cast of colorful characters and 10 unique endings. Your choices affect the story! Will Syrup achieve her dream of making the Ultimate Sweet, or will she meet a much more tragic fate?
Even knights still have to pay taxes, loans and alimony. Help unnamed but brave knight in his sacred mission to find the Holy Grail and make some money. Explore dungeons, slay enemies, avoid traps, stay alive and get rich! Vasilis, the main character, has lost her husband Peter in the rebellious city center. The city has plunged into chaos by constant riots, and almost every day something is burned or someone is killed.
Having been abandoned by the government, the center is now dominated by local workers and students, who were able to build four towers that bring life back to those that have died.
Vasilis is a game which focuses on characters and story. It is divided into five chapters in which the player will deal with riots, cults, and cruel war events. The game is inspired by Ukrainian political events from Win matches to level up and earn new equipment that will allow you to learn special abilities, boost your players' stats or protect yourself against altered status effects.
Create your own Soccer team to take on the many rival teams in story mode! Can you join the National Japanese Soccer team to become the best soccer player in the world!? Help Sir Lootalot conquer four dungeons by solving intricate puzzles and utilizing new abilities!
Join brave Sir Lootalot on his epic quest in this little adventure. Explore and fight your way through the four dangerous dungeons filled with dangerous traps, devious puzzles, and magical artifacts. Long ago in a beautiful and mysterious world an old supercomputer created the digital world that is now breaking down. In a final effort to stop the impending end of the virtual space, a small creature named Reed was created to save the world.
Help Reed collect information cubes in order to recalibrate the world and reboot the system. Avoid enemies and traps along the way to successfully move onto the next world! The virtual world now depends entirely on you and your platforming skills!
A kid named Dustin goes into a coma after being hit by an ice cream truck. His injuries are serious and there is virtually no hope of him waking up. His dog sleeps by his side, dreaming of strange and mysterious lands filled with canine wonders. It is Balthazar - Dustin's best friend and there is no way in the world he will move even an inch away from his owner. In his dream Balthazar senses a presence of two entities. Recognizing one as Dustin he uses his nose to follow him, while the other presence lurks menacingly in the darkness.
Balthazar is sure that it is here to take the boy away. With a loud bark Balthazar embarks on a quest to save his owner, venturing through the dreamscape with love and determination only a dog can possess. With levels that will either make or break players, is an unforgiving 1-bit low-fi platformer that will challenge players, whilst pleasing their ears with a spectacular soundtrack for players to groove to. But if challenging levels isn't enough, thanks to a level editor mode, there are even more levels for players to play as they will be able to create their own challenging levels, or download and play challenging levels designed by someone else, which means even if you complete the main campaign, there will still be levels to play, long after the game's release!
Features: A fast paced difficult, but fair gaming experience. A multiplayer feature called Race Mode, where players can go head to head against a friend to see who is the true master of the 1-bit platformer genre. A Level editor mode that allows players to create and share their own levels, as well as download those made by others. Cross-platform sharing. Online Leaderboards. Randomly selected levels that trigger after every death and level completion.
Low-fi graphics complimented with an awesome electronic music soundtrack by Levi Bond. Just a Phrase is a hangman-style word game with a twist. One word in every phrase has been replaced by a homophone to make it tougher to deduce. The new phrases sound familiar when read aloud, but have humorous or surreal new meanings.
Milo's Quest is a 2D top-down adventure game about a dog, lots of ghosts and puzzles. Featuring colorful pixelated graphics and chiptune music. Milo is a very smart and brave dog! Help him to save the world from the ghostly armies of King Old Skull, an ancient evil, who was freed, let's say, by accident, and now wants to rule all the world and turn everyone into ghosts!! During the way, Milo will find some special items, called Relics, which will help him on his quest by granting new skills.
There is also many more other helpful and powerful items scattered throught the lands that awaits you to explore. Solve puzzles, defeat enemies, find items, improve yourself and save the world!
Foxy bought a house with Jenny and the little foxes, Tim and Cindy. All was well until the evil Duke and his brother Jax attacked and trashed everything in it Foxy and Jenny are now forced to go on a dangerous and exciting adventure around the island to prevent the Wolfie Brothers to carry out their insidious and evil plan.
The brave Foxy can not do this alone! Play together with a friend to collect as many coins and cherries on the way to the final battle with the Wolfie brothers. Explore new lands, defeat enemies, bypass cunning traps and meet new inhabitants of the colorful world FoxyLand 2! Ready to hit the road? Then let's go - towards adventure! If you were given another chance, would you take it?
Or leave it in the hands of a little girl? Play as Roh, a young girl stuck in a bizarre nightmare of dark and eerie creatures. This short game will have you entangled with its story-driven narrative and puzzles as you help Roh find an answer to her place in this strange world.
Red Bow is designed to play and feel as a modern top down Gameboy game with roughly 1 - 2 hours of game play with achievement hunting. The game uses an RPG top-down style which consists of finding items, secrets and solving puzzles to progress the story. The game progresses in sequences which are filled with secrets and easter eggs! Find the multiple endings by following clues and your gut!
Link-a-Pix is a clue-linking puzzle where every grid has a picture hidden inside. The aim is to reveal the picture by painting paths to link the clues. Connect pairs of clues which have the same colour and number. The number shows the length of the line which will connect them. Link-a-Pix can always be solved using logic and deduction.
You don't ever have to guess! This game contains brand new full-colour puzzles and unique mono puzzles, designed by Conceptis Ltd.
Puzzles range in difficulty and size from small introductory pictures to huge scrollable grids. Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
Step into the gilded boots of King Knight as you leap, Shoulder Bash, and twirl your way to a kingdom of your own in this regal prequel. Gather cards, take on challengers, and build a deck in the all-new card game, Joustus! Travel through strange worlds, gather new subjects, best the Joustus Judges, and become King of Cards! World-class platforming, exquisite visuals, a story with heart, action-packed stages, masterful music, glorious new bosses, and more await you in Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
The young wizard Darius loses his house after he fails to make a loan repayment, and ends up living for free in the house of a wanted sorcerer! As he meets a female swordsman who has absolutely no sense of direction, and a plant girl who shrivels up immediately if she doesn't drink enough water, fate decrees to end up traveling together.
Where will the quarrels over differing principles lead to? Retrieve your life back through a new adventure in a fantasy RPG!
How beautifully in one word. My mind is racing, my stomach flutter butterflies, heart racing. Are you willing to do anything to give a million cherries, collect all the jewels and even save your favorite? Here's our Foxy Fox is ready to rescue his love! He sent her on a dangerous journey and without Your help Foxy to save her! Embark on an adventure filled with dangers and difficulties that You have to overcome! Complete many challenging levels, collect the gems and cherries and get to the end of the level to get three stars.
Look in the shop and spend the collected cherry on new items. Open the full collection of outfits for the Fox Foxy! And if You can pass all levels in FoxyLand? We now check! You pick a lead character from eight unique heroes, and recruit additional members to your party as the adventure continues. You'll be able to take up to six characters into battle at a time, and engage in tactical turn-based combat against some truly fearsome foes.
This new remastered version of the game features absolutely beautiful HD visuals with newly drawn art and entirely new pictures, all created by illustrator Tomomi Kobayashi - famed for her work on the SaGa series.
User Score: 6. Race across a curious island in this fast-paced, light-hearted platformer Miles and Kilo have been attacked by a mischievous specter! With their plane in pieces and a gang of thieving scoundrels running off with the important parts, the unfortunate duo's only hope of escape is to embark on a thrilling chase across a haunted island. Each of the game's 36 levels can be cleared without stopping, making it a perfect choice for fans of speedrunning!
Both Miles and Kilo have their own diverse sets of moves and abilities. Miles can wall-jump, slide, punch, and toss fruit at pesky critters whereas Kilo can somersault through breakable walls and dash through the air to pounce on nearby baddies. A special Time Attack mode is unlocked after beating Story Mode.
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