PS3 Obscure PS3 games

[antii]

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[Somnia]

It is truly tragic that despite how fun, unique and popular Fat Princess was that we only got 1 pseudo-sequel in the form of the PSP game. Every other attempt at progressing the IP was a shlocky spin-off. It they remastered or made a new one I'd be all over that shit!!


Cu-Neo already mentioned it, but I will second Folklore. Incredibly fun and unique RPG with a gorgeous visual style. It had a planned Move sequel that got unfortunately canned in an era where the Move desperately needed more non-shovelware to legitimize the platform. RIP to Game Republic, they made a small handful of stellar titles - almost none of which managed to catch on despite their quality - before primarily becoming a lower budget licensed studio desperately trying to pay bills between their original IP.

 

[Rylioli]

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i think the weirdest part about this game is it got a remaster like not even that long ago on pc and switch. same with another rather obscure ps3 title called blades of time

 

[Ailuropoda Melanoleuca]

A lot of y'all are mentioning games that were quite high-profile when they released. Like Folklore, for example, was hyped up to be the PS3's first major RPG (it wasn't, but it was still a solid game). The lack of games in the PS3 library early on really elevated the profiles of a lot of these early titles.

Anyway, I've gotta second the recommendations for 3D.Game Heroes (which plays perfectly emulated, by the way) and Tokyo Jungle. The latter, especially, is one of my favorites.

Beyond that, there are a number of experimental PSN games and Japan-only titles that are worth bringing up, I think. For the former, Echochrome was a delightfully mind-bendy puzzle-platformer based on M.C. Escher drawings, and Flower, since ported to every platform under the sun, was originally THE showcase game for the Sixaxis' motion control gimmick; for the latter, I'm a big fan of Gundam Senki (easily the best Gundam game to date) and Macross 30 (an open-world ARPG with transforming mechs, what's not to love?); Gundam UC is also a pretty solid gundam game confined to space, with some of the best visuals out of any game game before or since, and I was also quite happy with the very small mini-games (literally miniature games) that were included in the original blu-ray releases of the Macross movies -- both Frontier films as well as Do You Remember Love, iirc.

 

[Rylioli]

A lot of y'all are mentioning games that were quite high-profile when they released. Like Folklore, for example, was hyped up to be the PS3's first major RPG (it wasn't, but it was still a solid game). The lack of games in the PS3 library early on really elevated the profiles of a lot of these early titles.

Anyway, I've gotta second the recommendations for 3D.Game Heroes (which plays perfectly emulated, by the way) and Tokyo Jungle. The latter, especially, is one of my favorites.

Beyond that, there are a number of experimental PSN games and Japan-only titles that are worth bringing up, I think. For the former, Echochrome was a delightfully mind-bendy puzzle-platformer based on M.C. Escher drawings, and Flower, since ported to every platform under the sun, was originally THE showcase game for the Sixaxis' motion control gimmick; for the latter, I'm a big fan of Gundam Senki (easily the best Gundam game to date) and Macross 30 (an open-world ARPG with transforming mechs, what's not to love?); Gundam UC is also a pretty solid gundam game confined to space, with some of the best visuals out of any game game before or since, and I was also quite happy with the very small mini-games (literally miniature games) that were included in the original blu-ray releases of the Macross movies -- both Frontier films as well as Do You Remember Love, iirc.

i always thought lair was the sixaxis gimmick showcase (for better or for worse)

 

[Eckori]

Always loved Deadly Premonition, probably due to my love of Twin Peaks, its not really a great game but I love it!

 

[Skeetos]

I get to talk about this. There is a PSN release called Snowy: Treasure Hunter. It's a port of these three old PC games put together in to one release. I never played the PS3 version because you can't buy it anymore and no one has the license for it so you can bypass the demo. But as a kid I played the PC games a lot, they were neat little platformers where you had to go across the level and collect all of the treasures while avoiding enemies. The game gets super difficult with puzzles later on. I think here on the Repo there's the Snowy: The Bear's Adventure's psp mini that it's related to.

 

[thanonyx]

Folklore
Heavenly Sword
Puppeteer
Eternal Sonata
Splatterhouse
3D Dot Game Heroes
Tokyo Jungle
Lollipop Chainsaw
Shadows of the Damned
Alice Madness Returns
The Unfinished Swan
Killer is Dead
Tornado Outbreak
Dark Sector
Resonance of Fate
Earth Defense Force 2025
Dragon's Crown
The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut
[PROTOTYPE]
The Witch and the Hundred Knight (WARNING: CONTAINS A BUG THAT CAN WIPE YOUR SAVE DATA AT ANY TIME! JUST PLAY THE PS4 PORT AS IT DOES NOT CONTAIN THIS BUG!)

 

[What's His Face]

Eternal Sonata - improved port of the 360 game
El Shaddai - weird but awesome
Enchanted Arms - another 360 refugee
Resonance Of Fate - not exactly obscure but very forgotten
3D Dot Game Heroes - also oft forgotten
Record of Argarest War - people remember the "Very Naughty" 360 release...
Viking: Battle for Asgard - almost never mentioned
Lost Dimension - truly lost...Bah-Dum TISH!
Tears to Tiara II - so obscure I forgot I own it...
Remember Me - no, I forgot you for YEARS, then I bought you and you sat on my shelf since.

Oddly, just about every list on the internet for "Obscure/Forgotten/"Hidden Gem" PS3 games includes Folklore and Dragon's Crown. If everyone mentions these two games specifically, then are they really obscure?

 

[gokusmacksmyds]

Drakengard 3 is STILL a PS3 exclusive as of 2025 despite the success of Nier / Automata.
It is kind of crazy none of the drakengard games are accessible outside of emulation nowadays.

 

[RetroLaw]

 

[Maromishi]

Many interesting responses in this thread!
A few of the games listed have even been so loved they have finally escaped onto another platform. (I really appreciate when companies up-port games that I feel many of us all missed out on; also, it means that future gamers will have an easier time accessing these awesome titles).

While I enjoyed many of the titles others have listed here (El Shaddai, Binary Domain, and Lost Dimension being some of my favorites) I think there is only one game I'd really like to see a remaster of and or another game in a similar style: The Unfinished Swan.

The Unfinished Swan, in my opinion is one of the best obscure indie games for PS3 (that also later made it onto PS4 and other platforms). It was a digital PSN title but it had a unique world in terms of gameplay/exploration and I think if you like puzzle games or narrative games (open to interpretation on author or narrator intention) that it's well worth a playthrough.

 

[Rylioli]

Eternal Sonata - improved port of the 360 game
El Shaddai - weird but awesome
Enchanted Arms - another 360 refugee
Resonance Of Fate - not exactly obscure but very forgotten
3D Dot Game Heroes - also oft forgotten
Record of Argarest War - people remember the "Very Naughty" 360 release...
Viking: Battle for Asgard - almost never mentioned
Lost Dimension - truly lost...Bah-Dum TISH!
Tears to Tiara II - so obscure I forgot I own it...
Remember Me - no, I forgot you for YEARS, then I bought you and you sat on my shelf since.

Oddly, just about every list on the internet for "Obscure/Forgotten/"Hidden Gem" PS3 games includes Folklore and Dragon's Crown. If everyone mentions these two games specifically, then are they really obscure?

lost dimension is surprisingly a solid title, was playing a bunch of furyu games when i stumbled on that one

 

[spectresfrommercury]

degenki bunko fighting climax at least to me that is

 

[Taukyrie]

Transformers Devastation is a game I hardly hear anyone talk about, it has a lot of interesting mechanics and being developed by Platinum the soundtrack is absolutely fire

Considering this thread is the first time I've heard anyone but my older brother mention it, yeah, I would call it obscure.

Piggybacking off of this, I would probably mention War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron since I don't really see those two being mentioned much.

Oddly, just about every list on the internet for "Obscure/Forgotten/"Hidden Gem" PS3 games includes Folklore and Dragon's Crown. If everyone mentions these two games specifically, then are they really obscure?

Makes you really think tbh. I'll admit, I don't really think Dragon's Crown is obscure myself since I still see people mention it a lot.

But if we're talking obscure PS3 games, Resonance of Fate and Valkyria Chronicles first come to mind for me.

 

[hazys]

• Natural Doctrine
• Toy Home
• Rain
• Papo & Yo
• NeverDead
• Way of the Samurai 4
• From Dust
• Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters
• Datura
• Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
• Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death
• Quantum Theory
• WET
• Aquanaut's Holiday: Hidden Memories
• Afrika
• The Saboteur
• Haze
• Hydrophobia

 

[Jotaro]

in no order

- mirror's edge
- folklore
- remember me
- asura's wrath
- nier and nier replicant
- resonance of fate
- syndicate
- blacksite area 51
- quantum theory
- starhawk
- dark sector
- x-men destiny
- dark void
- scourge outbreak
- inversion
- tales of xilia 1
- driver san francisco
- neverdead
- yakuza dead souls
- transformers devastation
- atelier: escha and logy
- fairy fencer f
- bionic commando
- blades of time
- valkyria chronicles 1
- tales of graces f
- binary domain
- the afro samurai game

 

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