The 4 best PlayStation Vita games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 641 review scores of 397 PlayStation Vita games; 202 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Tearaway	PS Vita	2013	93.6
2	Sound Shapes	PS Vita	2013	90.8
3	Guacamelee!	PS Vita	2013	90
4	Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward	PS Vita	2012	90

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

24 PlayStation Vita games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
FEZ	PS Vita	2014	95
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2018	PS Vita		95
SteamWorld Dig	PS Vita	2014	95
The Walking Dead: 400 Days	PS Vita	2013	95
The Swapper	PS Vita	2014	93
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir	PS Vita	2016	92.5
Angelique Retour	PS Vita	2015	92
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016	PS Vita		92
Pro Yakyu Spirits 2014	PS Vita	2014	92
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc	PS Vita	2014	90
Dragon Quest Builders	PS Vita	2016	90
Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition	PS Vita	2013	90
FIFA 15: Legacy Edition	PS Vita	2014	90
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X	PS Vita	2016	90
Helldivers	PS Vita	2015	90
Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Universe in Peril	PS Vita	2013	90
LittleBIGPlanet PS Vita: Marvel Super Hero Edition	PS Vita	2014	90
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2+	PS Vita	2013	90
OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood	PS Vita	2015	90
Ore no Shikabane wo Koete Yuke 2	PS Vita	2014	90
Shin Gundam Musou	PS Vita	2013	90
Shingeki no Kyojin 2	PS Vita	2018	90
Shovel Knight	PS Vita	2015	90
World of Final Fantasy	PS Vita	2016	90

How the ranking works

The scores are the ones magazines gave when the games came out, all converted to a 0–100 scale. Only one review per magazine counts for a game: the most recent.
A game's score is half the average, half the median of its magazine reviews. A title opens the game's page on uvlist.net; a score opens the report with every review behind it.
A game needs at least 3 magazine reviews to be ranked. With equal scores, the game with more reviews comes first.
Metacritic already sums up many reviews, so it is never mixed with the magazines: it is used only for games with fewer than 3 magazine reviews, as their only score.
Each list shows every game with a score of 90 or more. Games with fewer than 3 reviews and no Metacritic score are shown apart: their score is promising, but rests on one or two opinions.

The lists are rebuilt each time reviews are added. To filter by genre, year, magazine or publisher, explore all the scores in the report.

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