Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op. With over 100 items at your disposal, you will find the tools you need to find the teleporter back home. Discover a myriad of randomly chosen stages, from the desolate forest to the frozen tundra.

It’s a challenging 2D arcade game where you are a master of time. Set it to past, present or future to control various mechanisms, and make sure that a mechanical bird will safely reach the end of the level. Prepare to die a lot – you will be sliced, squashed and crushed.

When Princess Kinuhime is slain by a demon, Hayate becomes obsessed with revenge! Casting aside the art of invisibility, the blue ninja unleashes the power of shurikenjutsu upon mythological creatures, demons and other adversaries in his action-filled quest for vengeance!

When Blobolonia is threatened by an evil Emperor, the blob comes to Earth looking for help. Instead, he finds a young boy. Help the blob dethrone the evil Emperor that's terrorizing Blobolonia and establish a friendship with the blob that will last a lifetime.

Teleport yourself into the most hardcore game this fall. Try to imagine a game simple in its basics, but demanding from the very first level, where everything might kill you. Even the camera and the main protagonist are against you as both of them constantly move forward. Add some barbed wire, spikes, and sawblades and you'll get Red Game Without a Great Name. And in this game you will die a lot.

TowerFall is an archery combat platformer for up to 4 players. It's a local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but combat is fast and fierce. It's best played competitively with friends, cross-legged on the floor within punching distance of each other.

THE BIT.TRIP is the ultimate way to play all six games in the award-winning BIT.TRIP series, including BIT.TRIP RUNNER, the first auto-running rhythm platformer on Earth! This tough-as-nails collection of retro-inspired music/rhythm games will make you laugh, cry, scream, curse, and perhaps even bleed. And for those trying to keep an eye on their blood pressure, we’ve also added in the ability to toggle the difficulty in each game. Because we care.

Not for the faint of heart, THE BIT.TRIP is deceptively hardcore. It will take you through the origin story of CommanderVideo as you follow him through his life-journey as he learns what it means to be a human, fall in love, face adversity, and ultimately return to the ether. Few have completed the entire series fewer still have managed to earn the elusive PERFECT score for each game. But whether or not you possess the skills and patience to accomplish such a feat, you’re sure to find a lot to love in this collection of retro arcade greatness!

Join Luke, Han, and Chewbacca in their fierce war against the evil Empire. Battle treacherous aliens. Pilot two vehicles in high-speed, first-person, 3-D sequences. Fight your way through the wastelands of Tatooine to the hostile streets of Mos Eisley and beyond. So grab your blaster, strap on your lightsaber, and take on the fight for galactic freedom.

Super Time Force Ultra is an action-packed platformer with a time-travelling twist! You’re in control of time itself, bending and stretching it to your advantage on the battlefield. Rewind time and choose when to jump back into the action, teaming-up with your past selves in a unique single-player co-op experience! Take control of up to 19 unique characters, and battle across 6 different time periods, from the long-ago past to the far-away future.

Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, The Great Gonzo, Animal and more of the Muppets as the zany gang bring their unique blend of laughs, chaos and adventure to the Hollywood stage.

Xeodrifter™ is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.

It’s the game that'll have you walking on the ceiling and looking up at the floor! VVVVVV is a challenging 2D action/platformer with one deceptively simple gameplay mechanic: Without the ability to jump, Captain Viridian must rely on inverting gravity to advance through hundreds of rooms and solve the puzzles he encounters therein. This love letter to the days of 8-bit home computer games features amazing retro gameplay, a genuinely classic visual aesthetic and an earworm chiptune soundtrack created by Swedish musician Magnus Palsson.

TorqueL is unique a 2D "rolling" & "extend" platformer/action/puzzle game. Including total 50 chambers, 7 basic routes. Music of product version created by sanodg(Nobuyoshi Sano).

Young Elena Elkhorn embarks on a harrowing journey to find her missing father and discover the secrets of the Willows Mansion. Aiding her journey is a unique amulet, she received from her father, which allows her to astral project her spirit into a ghostly-realm and communicate with the dead. Play as Elena to find her missing father, use your astral projection to solves the mansion

BADLAND is an atmospheric side-scrolling action adventure platformer set in a gorgeous forest full of various inhabitants, trees and flowers. Although the forest appears to be right out of a beautiful fairy tale, there

Play as `Umihara Kawase` - a 20 year old backpacking Japanese sushi chef armed with a fishing rod, a rubber fishing line and a fishing hook. Avoid fish-like enemies, conveyer belts, spikes, watery pits, time travel and more. Make your way to the end of each level, collecting items and finding along the way. The deeper in to this dream-like game players venture, the more challenging the solutions and the greater the time pressure becomes. Along the way, look out for shortcuts and secret exits and unlock bonus levels.

Element4l is an immersive and experimental platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.
In Element4l, you control four elements who are bound together on a journey to shape life. Your only hindrances are nature and the sun. It takes a different, innovative approach to classic platform games and challenges you to rearrange your reflexes. Element4l is a challenge. The first time you play it, you will struggle... just like the first time you've learned how to ride a bike.

RUN as fast as you can through an ever-changing handcrafted world. DASH to ESCAPE the GOO and the clutches of the grumpy Negativitron!

In the region of Awelsia, vengeful Freyja travels with an unknown weapon called 'AeternoBlade'. Freyja looks to take revenge on Beladim, the Lord of the Mist who destroyed her village, Ridgerode, and killed her tribe. Her vengeance is helped by Vernia, who has as much merit as Beladim. Vernia taught Freya about the abilities of AeternoBlade. Freya has to venture into many different world dimensions to discover how to annihilate Beladim.

Drum to control a tribe of monkeys! Jungle Rumble is a rhythm game like the world has never seen. A rival tribe invades to steal your bananas. Drum on the screen to send monkey minions into the fight. Send your tribe on an epic quest for freedom, happiness, and bananas!

Only a hero would dare to enter the world of SpongeBob's cotton candy and rainbow filled mind! Play as fan favorite characters in regular form or as heroes from the movie! You can even play as Plankton! Weave your way through obstacles and puzzles in popular settings from the movie, including Bikini Bottom!

Pirate Baboon, the most perfidious baboon on little monkey’s island, has wreaked havoc with his anti-gravity raygun, he's gone and fired his lethal ray at every banana on the island. Now they are floating around! What can we do now?Our brave hero Tumbili must spring into action, protected with good ol’ grandpa’s helmet, he shoots himself into the most explosive adventure ever! Will you be able to trash evil Pirate Baboon's plans and save the island's inhabitants from doom?Join Tumbili on a great adventure where you'll battle arch enemies, make new friends, take part in an amazing story and solve lots of challenges and side quests to save the day!

Meet Zak a bumbling alien spaceship Janitor and wannabe Flyhunter. Zak is a “Zursk”- one of three alien species from Burgarol 3. He works on board the Flyhunter Crew’s legendary spaceship ‘The Frog’ but deep down he longs for an exciting adventure of his own. Somewhere in Earth’s orbit, while the heroic Flyhunters are deep in cryo sleep The Frog’s cargo of super-important, exotic insects from the latest hunt is mysteriously jettisoned into Space, crash-landing back on planet Earth! It seems that clumsy Janitor Zak is the only one around to save the day.

The player controls a solar-powered spacecraft as it races through a minimalist landscape with abstract shapes and various obstacles. Levels are pseudo-procedurally-generated and separated into distinct regions, each region having different sets of challenges. The ship's speed remains constant as long as the ship remains in direct sunlight, but if the ship falls into shadow or clips objects, the ship's speed will drop. Direct collision with an object will cause the ship to be destroyed and end the run. Further, if the player's ship remains in shadow too long - such as when the sun finally sets - the ship will stall and the run wil be over.

Another World™ chronicles the story of Lester Knight Chaykin a young scientist hurtled through space and time by a nuclear experiment that goes wrong. In an alien and inhospitable world, you will have to dodge, outwit, and overcome the host of alien monsters, while surviving an environment as deadly as your enemies. Only a perfect blend of logic and skill will get you past the deadly obstacles that lie in wait.

Best PS Vita Platformer Games

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Risk of Rain

Green Game: TimeSwapper

Ninja Senki Dx

A Boy and His Blob

Red Game Without A Great Name

TowerFall Ascension

The BIT.TRIP

Super Star Wars

Super Time Force Ultra

The Muppets: Movie Adventures

Xeodrifter

VVVVVV

TorqueL

Whispering Willows

Badland: Game of the Year Edition

Sayonara UmiharaKawase

ELEMENT4L

Run Sackboy! Run!

AeternoBlade

Jungle Rumble: Freedom, Happiness and Bananas

Spongebob Hero Pants The Game 2015

Baboon!

Flyhunter Origins

Race the Sun

Another World - 20th Anniversary Edition

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