7 Best Cheap PSP Games

Wild Arms XF turned the Wild Arms series into a tactics game. Media.Vision unveiled it at a fan event on September 2, 2006, and it came out in Japan in 2007 and in North America in 2008. The story follows Clarissa, who is mistaken for the missing Princess Alexia for the first half of the game. You control the characters the plot needs, and you can hire generic Drifters to fill out your army. Finish it and New Game Plus lets you keep your money and equipment, with battles giving double the experience.

Loose UMDs sold for a typical $24 between April 2024 and April 2025, so it only just makes the cut. Players who name Jeanne d'Arc often name Wild Arms XF in the same breath.

Brave Story: New Traveler is a JRPG built on the world of Brave Story, the novel by Miyuki Miyabe. It is based on the manga adaptation, and it keeps some of the original cast, but the hero Tatsuya and his friend Miki are new characters made for the game. Miki falls ill, and a voice asks Tatsuya if he wants to save her and make her healthy again. Of course he says yes. The game came out in Asia on July 4, 2006, and Xseed Games brought an English version to North America on July 31, 2007.

Loose UMDs sold for a typical $20 between September 2024 and August 2025. When players run through the PSP's RPGs, Brave Story keeps turning up in the mix, often right beside the bigger names.

Star Ocean: Second Evolution is the PSP version of Star Ocean: The Second Story, which first came out on the PlayStation in Japan on July 30, 1998. The PSP port reached Japan on April 2, 2008 and North America on January 20, 2009. The series is known as one of the earliest real-time RPGs to let your actions and dialogue choices change the story. Its private actions work like a dating sim, with friendship and relationship points between every pair of characters, so you can pair up any couple you like.

Loose UMDs sold for a typical $15 between September 2024 and August 2025. Players who want a JRPG on the PSP keep pointing at Star Ocean. Many just say the series name, and some of them mean First Departure, the PSP remake of the first game.

Jeanne d'Arc was Level-5's first RPG of this kind and the studio's first game for the PSP. It came out in Japan on November 22, 2006 and in North America on August 21, 2007. The story is loosely based on Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years' War, with one big change: demons. The Duke of Bedford makes a pact with their leader, who gets to possess young Henry VI in return for demon soldiers. Jeanne survives the burning of her village, Domrémy, picks up a powerful armlet and sets out to save France.

Loose UMDs sold for a typical $23 between February and July 2025. Fans of tactics RPGs bring it up next to Final Fantasy Tactics, and that is high company. History class was never this much fun.

Lumines started when Tetsuya Mizuguchi heard about the PlayStation Portable and wanted to make a game for it. It was the first game from Q Entertainment and a launch title for the PSP, made by about four or five people over a year. At first it looks like Columns or Tetris. You drop blocks to make squares of one color, and a Time Line sweeps across to clear them. Each skin changes the look of the blocks and the music, and the subtitle Puzzle Fusion is there because the music is the heart of the game.

Loose UMDs sold for a typical $5 between April 2024 and March 2025, the cheapest game on this list. Players still put it on their short lists of PSP essentials.

Liberty City Stories takes you back to the city of GTA III in 1998. You play Toni Cipriani, a mobster first seen in GTA III, as he climbs the ranks of the Leone crime family and gets pulled into a war between the city's Mafia groups. The map has history in it: the Callahan Bridge is not finished yet, so a ferry links Staunton Island and Portland. Frank Vincent returns as Salvatore Leone. The game sold over 8 million copies by March 2008, which makes it one of the best-selling PSP games ever.

All those copies are why it is so easy to find. Loose UMDs sold for a typical $14 between August and September 2025. Players tend to recommend the PSP GTA games as a set, and this is the one that started it.

Daxter is a Jak and Daxter spin-off that stars the sidekick. It takes place during the two years Jak spends locked up at the start of Jak II, while Daxter is on his own. The story is told as Daxter recounting it later at his bar, the Naughty Ottsel, to Jak and the gang. That framing is very on brand for a character who never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. It sold more than 2.3 million copies by June 2008, and it came back on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in June 2024.

Loose UMDs sold for a typical $11 between February and April 2025. Ask what to play on a PSP and Daxter comes up again and again, sometimes as the whole answer.