In all my time doing these roundups, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen this many quality titles hit the platform. There PS Vita classics, 3D re-imaginings of classic games, de-makes, and so much more. Check it out below.
Free/Ready to Play PortMaster Games and Apps
- Blip & Blup – A 3D co-op arcade platformer about two fish, a pact with Sa’Tong and a quest for food, enlightenment and trust. Inspired by Bubble Bobble and The Lost Vikings.
- Celeste 64 – A 3D platformer inspired by classic N64 games. Play as Madeline, explore a small version of Celeste Mountain, collect strawberries, and master Celeste’s signature movement.
- Copter – Copter is a modern, feature-rich tribute to one of the most iconic browser games of the early internet era. This project is a lovingly crafted clone of the classic Flash game Helicopter Game originally released in 2002 by creators David McCandless and Leandro Barreto.
- Cortex Commandos – Choose from 9 dastardly Crash Bandicoot villains and wreak havoc against a massive bandicoot-clone army! Upgrade your villain and wipe every bandicoot off the face of the earth! Test your mettle in story mode, arena mode and deathmatch mode and catch the thief who stole the master crystal and built the clone army!
- Critter – Critical Mass (aka Critter) is a fast-paced arena shoot-’em-up similar to Galaxian: move your ship and blast waves of space critters attacking from above.
- Defblade – A precision pixel-art platformer with sword combat. Parkour across tricky obstacles and fight enemies to earn coins – lose them all and it’s game over.
- DMOMD – A roguelike RPG written in Common Lisp: explore procedurally generated dungeons as a magician, with turn-based movement and spell-driven turn-based battles against slimes, rats, zombies and demons.
- Dust Racing 2 – Traditional top-down 2D car racing game with a track editor.
- Fanwor – A small top-down action-adventure in the style of The Legend of Zelda – explore the world of Fanwor, fight monsters with your sword, and recover the eight stolen Gems of Power.
- Gizmoduck – This is a fangame about the adventures of Gizmoduck developed by Gektorne.
- Globulation 2 – A real-time strategy game where you set goals for your colonists to achieve, rather than micromanaging each unit individually.
- Gravwell – Gravwell is a neon top down extraction shooter. Survive the hordes of enemies to reap the rewards. Banked haul buys permanent upgrades and passage to harder systems.
- The Hermetic Tower – A dark fantasy visual novel. Climb a sealed tower floor by floor through branching dialogue, exploration and real-time battles, toward one of four endings.
- heXon – A twin-stick-shooter set in a hexagonal arena where every edge wraps to its opposite. Fly well, avoid the Notyous, and destroy them with your Whack-o-Slack blast battery.
- Mega Man W – Mega Man W is a fan made game by Team W which aims to be similar to the original six mega man games. You will face off against a fierce hoard of robots infected by a virus corrupting them and making them go mad!
- Metroid Prime Origins – Metroid Prime Origins is a fan-made 2D “demake” of the 2002 classic Metroid Prime, reimagining the original 3D GameCube game as an 8-bit, NES-style adventure.
- Marryampic2 – A memory/pairs card game with an audio twist: find matching card pairs, either the classic way or by first hearing a sound and finding the pair it belongs to. Ships with 49 cardset themes, from the official Marryampic2 sets to the full legacy Marryampic I catalog.
- OpenDefender – OpenDefender is an open source Defender clone created with Game maker.
- Power Manga – A fast arcade 2D shoot-em-up with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites – collect gems to power up your ship and battle waves of enemies and huge guardians.
- Project Alexandria – Pilot the Prometheus craft through alien landscapes and strike back at the Zokai in this Asteroids-style physics shooter with a full soundtrack.
- Race Into Space – Free software recreation of Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space, a turn-based strategy game where you run the US or Soviet space program in the race to land on the Moon.
- Tuxedo T. Penguin: A Quest for Herring – Tuxedo T. Penguin: A Quest for Herring is a 3D platformer where you guide Tux (or his girlfriend Gown) through island levels collecting hidden herring while dodging killer whales and leopard seals.
- Water Closet – Escape down the toilet at the end of each stage in this puzzle-platformer, using a time-cloning mechanic to solve each room.
Paid/Files Required PortMaster Games
- Charlie Murder – Charlie Murder is a chaotic punk-rock beat-em-up by Ska Studios. Fight through hordes of undead monsters as Charlie and his band of misfits in this action-packed side-scroller originally released for Xbox 360.
- Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers – Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.
- Evil Egg – Evil Egg was an ecstatic twin-stick nightmare known for its brutal shooting action and intense audiovisual effects. Infinite horrors tear apart a world of little green men, the only hope an errant hatchling.
- FEZ – Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very fabric of space and time.
- Gates of Skeldal – Gates of Skeldal is a cult classic Czech dungeon crawler from 1998. On the mythical island of Rovenland, a party of adventurers sets out to stop five rogue mages from the tower of Skeldal. Enjoy turn-based combat, powerful magic, and tricky puzzles in this legendary RPG!
- The Happy Hills Homicide 2 – He is back. Once again take control of mass serial killer John Wade. Six years later, the infamous Pale Grin resurrects from the grave to terrorize the broken town of Happyhills.
- Make The Burger – Make burgers with assorted ingredients, memorize orders and be quick before time runs out. Make your customers happy by eating delicious hamburgers, but remember, nobody likes to get wrong orders.
- Maze Mice – Maze Mice is a bullet heaven roguelite where time only moves when you move. Collect dots, level up, choose upgrades, and avoid cats. All at your own pace
- MotionREC – MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.
- OneShot: World Machine Edition – A puzzle adventure about Niko, a child who wakes in a dying world holding a lightbulb that is meant to become its new sun. The game knows you are there, and treats you as someone separate from Niko. It talks to you, remembers you, and eventually asks you to decide what a world gets to do with its only chance. World Machine Edition rebuilds the original’s habit of reaching outside its own window into a simulated desktop you explore between chapters, so none of it touches your real machine. Soft pixel art, a quiet score, and an ending that plays once.
- Picayune Dreams – Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story.
- Postal – Postal is a 1997 isometric shoot ’em up where players control the “Postal Dude” as he commits mass murder in Paradise, Arizona, progressing by killing a set percentage of armed hostiles per level
- Professor Layton & the Curious Village – A remaster of the puzzle-adventure classic. Professor Layton and his apprentice Luke arrive in the village of St. Mystere to solve the mystery of the Golden Apple, and find a place where every resident answers a question with a riddle. Over 130 puzzles, hand-drawn art and fully animated cutscenes, rebuilt in HD.
- QueueIt! – In Queue It !, every gem gives you a special power but there’s a catch : You have to use them in the exact order they’re in your queue! Dash, jump, reverse gravity, phase through walls, smash obstacles, and build platforms… but think before you act. One wrong move, and your level might turn into chaos.
- Railroad Rampage – Bandits are trying to rob your train! Build turrets and special cars on your moving train and fight your way through 20 waves of enemies in this mix of tower defence and arcade action.
- Sternenfuchs – ARM64/PortMaster packaging of the open-source Star Fox Enhanced runtime, a fan-made SNES Star Fox/Starwing enhancement. No Nintendo ROM or ROM-derived data is included.
- The Swapper – A puzzle-platformer set aboard an abandoned space station, built around creating and swapping between clones.
- TEOCIDA – TEOCIDA is an esoteric experience focused on puzzles, cloning mechanics, platforming challenges and experimental elements. Explore the enigmatic passageways of a twisted microcosm filled with symbolic faith landscapes and erotic nightmares.
- Ultionis – The galactic heroine Serena S and her best friend Balzac have saved the Universe again! She posts her victory on Spacebook only to be trolled by a misogynistic self proclaimed space prince. Time to make him pay! Ultionus is a love-letter to the home computer and arcade games of the late 80s and early 90s!
- Unreal Tournament ’99 – Unreal Tournament is Epic’s 1999 arena first-person shooter.
- Mega Man X regenesis – Set in an alternate timeline following the events of Mega Man X, Sigma has won, X has fallen, and humanity stands on the brink of extinction. Just when all hope appears lost, Dr. Cain unveils his final contingency—Project Regenesis. Given one last chance to rewrite history, X must rise once again and fight to save what remains of humanity.
