15 Best Cheap PS2 Games

Tekken 5 was a hit with critics and buyers alike, selling over 9.43 million copies. It brought back the air combos and juggles of Tekken 3 after the fourth game had cut back on them. It was also the first Tekken where you could dress your fighters up with clothes and accessories bought with money earned in the game. Tekken Force mode is back too, the third take on that side mode after Tekken 3 and Tekken 4. An update called Dark Resurrection followed in 2005 and later reached the PSP.

Loose discs sold for a typical $14 between February and April 2025. Players who name only a few PS2 games still find room for it. It is the fighting game to keep next to the couch for when friends come over.

John Carpenter endorsed The Thing, and he even shows up in it for a cameo. Among your gear are portable blood test kits. Gunfire only weakens the creatures, because only fire can kill them for good, so the flamethrower always gets the last word. It sold over one million copies across all its platforms and got generally positive reviews. A sequel was in early development, but it was canceled when Computer Artworks went into receivership in 2003.

Loose discs sold for a typical $18 between November 2025 and February 2026. Horror fans keep naming it in the same breath as Cold Fear. A horror game built on paranoia is a steal at that price.

Grand Theft Auto III is the first 3D game in the series. You play Claude, a silent hero in Liberty City, a loose take on New York City, out for revenge against his ex-girlfriend. Development meant moving the series into a fully 3D world for the first time. It came out on the PS2 in October 2001, before the Windows and Xbox versions. It was the best-selling game of 2001, with over 11.6 million copies sold on the PS2. Vice City followed a year later.

Loose discs sold for a typical $5 between March and April 2026, the lowest price on this list. Players usually list it together with Vice City and San Andreas. For the price of a sandwich, you get the game that started the open city craze.

Vice City is set in 1986 in a city based on Miami, and it follows gangster Tommy Vercetti as he climbs to power after a drug deal goes wrong. The team did a lot of field research in Miami to get the place right. Critics loved its music and its open world, though its violence caused controversy. It was the best-selling game of 2002 and sold over 14.2 million copies on the PS2. San Andreas came next, and the prequel Vice City Stories came in 2006.

Loose discs sold for a typical $9 between May and June 2025. Plenty of players still put it on their lists of PS2 games to own. Put the radio on and drive along the beach at sunset, and you will see why.

In Ōkami you play the sun goddess Amaterasu in the form of a white wolf, in a version of old Japan built from its myths and folklore. Its look is inspired by sumi-e ink painting, and the Celestial Brush lets you draw gestures to perform miracles. Director Hideki Kamiya modeled the play on The Legend of Zelda, one of his favorite series. It sold poorly, but it won universal acclaim and IGN's 2006 Game of the Year. It was one of the last PS2 games released before the PS3 arrived.

Loose discs sold for a typical $18 between February and July 2026. Plenty of players name it first, or name it alone. Few games on any console look this beautiful, and none of them cost this little.

Devil May Cry started out as an idea for Resident Evil 4. Some of its moves came from a bug the team found in Onimusha: Warlords. Each mission ends with a grade based on your time and how stylish your fighting was. Dante picks up a sword called Alastor and a pair of gauntlets called Ifrit, and the powers they give him change how he looks. It sold more than 2.16 million copies and is considered among the greatest games ever made. Four sequels and a reboot followed.

Loose discs sold for a typical $8 between June and September 2026. Players who list the PS2's classics put it next to Metal Gear Solid 2. It is still a great way to find out what all the fuss about style meters is about.

Underground 2 is the eighth game in the Need for Speed series and the direct sequel to Underground. Like the first one, it was a big seller, at around 11 million copies worldwide, and it broke sales records in the UK. Brooke Burke voices Rachel Teller, who guides you through the game. You buy your first car with the insurance money from your wrecked Nissan Skyline and start racing again. From there the city is yours to race through at night.

Loose discs sold for a typical $20 between January and February 2026. Plenty of players name it among their PS2 favorites, often next to Gran Turismo 4. If you spent your teens tuning cars in this game, twenty dollars buys all of that back.

Gran Turismo 4 came out in Japan at the end of 2004 and in North America on February 22, 2005. Polyphony Digital had planned it for 2003, then delayed it for over a year and a half and cut its online mode. It was a commercial success and the fourth best-selling game on the PS2. Points for an event can only be won once, so to earn more you have to win it again in a car with less of an edge. New Driving Missions work like the license tests and pay out points and credits.

Loose discs sold for a typical $8 between May and July 2025. Players keep naming it among the PS2's best. It is a whole car collection on one disc for less than the price of a model car.

Criterion started Burnout 3 in June 2003 on the condition that EA would stay out of the creative process. Critics loved how aggressive the racing got, and they loved the Takedowns. It is one of the highest-rated racing games of all time and is considered one of the greatest games ever made. Reviewers called it addictive and praised the visuals, and many ranked it among the best games on the PS2. It won three British Academy Games Awards on top of others. Burnout Revenge followed in September 2005.

Loose discs sold for a typical $14 between June and August 2025. Plenty of players answer with just its name. Nothing on the PS2 makes a car crash feel this good.

Kingdom Hearts levels your party up with experience points like a traditional RPG. Unlike other games of its kind, a short tutorial at the start lets you shape how your hero grows. Between worlds you fly a Gummi Ship, and blueprints found along the way let you build new ones quickly. Japan got an expanded Final Mix version in December 2002. That version later reached everyone else in HD on the PS3 in Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix. The PS2 disc is the original release.

Loose discs sold for a typical $10 between May and June 2025. Players keep it on their PS2 lists, even when it only makes the honourable mentions. For ten dollars, it is the cheapest way into a series that is still going.

Most colossi sit in remote spots like clifftops or old ruins. Wander climbs the first one to stab the sigil on its forehead. Some colossi are peaceful and fight only when provoked, while others attack on sight. Eating the tail of a certain lizard raises Wander's stamina, the only animal that changes anything in play. Dormin speaks with a man's voice and a woman's voice at once. The game won awards for its audio and its design, and it sold well compared to Ico, helped by bigger marketing.

Loose discs sold for a typical $10 between March and June 2025. Plenty of players name it among the very best on the console. It still feels like nothing else, and it costs less than a movie ticket.

Development of Resident Evil 4 began for the PS2 in 1999. Hideki Kamiya directed the first attempt, but Shinji Mikami felt it strayed too far, so it became Devil May Cry. Other versions were thrown out until Mikami took over as director. The camera sits behind Leon and moves in over the shoulder when you aim, and every gun has a laser sight instead of a crosshair. It won multiple Game of the Year awards and sold 15.2 million copies across its many versions by March 2025.

Loose discs sold for a typical $9 between March and May 2025. It keeps turning up on players' lists of PS2 essentials. It is one of the best action games ever made, and you can have it for less than ten dollars.

God of War came out on the PS2 on March 22, 2005. It is loosely based on Greek mythology, with revenge at its heart. It won several Game of the Year awards and is regarded as one of the best action adventure games on the console. It sold over 4.6 million units by June 2012, making it the 12th best-selling PS2 game of all time. It and God of War II were remastered for the PS3 in November 2009 as the God of War Collection. Eight more games followed.

Loose discs sold for a typical $13 between July and August 2025. Players tend to recommend it along with its sequels rather than on its own. Start here, and the second game will be calling you by the end.

The tenth main Final Fantasy was the first in the series with fully 3D areas and voice acting. Development started in 1999 with a budget of more than $32.3 million and a team of over 100 people. It was the first main Final Fantasy that Nobuo Uematsu did not score alone, with Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano joining him. Its world, Spira, takes after Southeast Asia rather than the European style of earlier games. It shipped over 8.5 million units on the PS2. Final Fantasy X-2 made it the first Final Fantasy with a direct sequel.

Loose discs sold for a typical $7 between April and July 2025. Players keep putting it on their PS2 must-play lists next to Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3. Seven dollars for an RPG this long is hard to beat.

San Andreas is set in 1992 and follows Carl "CJ" Johnson, who comes home after his mother's murder. The map holds three cities, with Los Santos standing in for Los Angeles. The story draws on real events in Los Angeles, from the gang rivalry between the Bloods and the Crips to the 1992 riots. A 75-person team spent nearly two years making it. It came out on the PS2 in October 2004. The hidden Hot Coffee minigame briefly got it re-rated Adults Only.

Loose discs sold for a typical $13 between July and August 2026. Plenty of players name it first, and some feel no need to say more. It is the PS2 game players name most, and it costs less than lunch.