Ask and ye shall receive... a day later. Didn't list the other games and recommendations at the very bottom. Might do that tomorrow.
Recommended retail games released in English * Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed -- Acquire, XSEED [Adventure, Beat 'em up] * Atelier: Rorona/Totori/Meruru+ (PSN) -- Gust [RPG] * Blazblue: Chrono Phantasma -- Arc System Works [Fighting] * Child of Light (NA PSN) -- Ubisoft [Platforming, Role-Playing] * Danganronpa 1 / Danganronpa 2 -- Spyke Chunsoft, NISA [Adventure, Mystery] * Deception IV: Blood Ties -- Tecmo Koei [Strategy RPG] * Demon Gaze -- Experience Inc, NISA [Dungeon RPG] * Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited -- Nippon Ichi, NISA [SRPG] * Dragon's Crown -- Vanillaware, Atlus [ARPG, Sidescroller] * DJMAX Technika Tune -- Pentavision (NA) [Music, Rhythm] * Dynasty Warriors: Next / Warriors Orochi 3 / Samurai Warriors 4 (PSN) -- Koei Tecmo [Hack and Slash] * Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable (PSN) -- Sandlot [TPS, Cooperative] * Final Fantasy X / X-2 -- Square Enix [RPG] * Freedom Wars -- Shift, Dimps, SCEJ [Action, TPS, Cooperative] * Gravity Rush -- SCE Japan Studio [Action, Open World] * Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational -- SCE Japan Studio [Golf] * Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 -- Compile Heart, IFI [RPG] * Killzone Mercenary -- Guerilla Cambridge [FPS] * LittleBigPlanet PSVita -- Double Eleven/Tarsier [Platformer, Party, Mods] * Lumines: Electronic Symphony -- Q Entertainment (Ubisoft) [Music, Puzzle] * Metal Gear Solid HD Collection -- Kojima Productions [Action, Stealth] * Minecraft -- Mojang [Sandbox, Survival, Crossbuy] * Muramasa Rebirth -- Vanillaware, Akysys [ARPG, Sidescroller] * Need for Speed: Most Wanted -- Criterion [Open World Racing] * One Piece: Unlimited World Red -- Namco Bandai [Action, Cooperative] * Persona 4: Golden -- Atlus [RPG, Life Management] * Project Diva f (PSN) / f 2nd (TV) -- Sega [Music, Rhythm] * Ragnarok Odyssey Ace -- Game Arts [Action, Cooperative] * Rayman Origins (TV) / Rayman Legends -- Ubisoft Montpellier [Platformer] * Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus -- Marvelous AQL [3d Beat 'em up] * Shinobido 2: Tales of the Ninja -- Spike [Action, Stealth] * Sly Collection + Thieves in Time -- Sanzaru Games [Platformer, Stealth, Crossbuy] * Soul Sacrifice Delta (PSN) -- Marvelous, AQL, SCEJ [Action] * Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment (PSN) -- Bandai Namco [ARPG] * Tales of Hearts R -- Seventh Chord, Namco [ARPG] * Tearaway -- Media Molecule [Platform, Adventure] * Touch my Katamari -- Bandai Namco [Third person action puzzle] * Wipeout 2048 -- SCE Liverpool Studio [Futuristic Racing] * Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour -- Sega-AM3 [Tennis] * Walking Dead (TV) / Wolf Among Us -- Telltale Games [Visual Novel] * Ys: Memories of Celceta -- Nihon Falcom, XSEED [ARPG] * Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward -- Chunsoft [Adventure, Visual Novel]
Recommended non-retail games released in English * Cytus Lambda (PS Mobile) -- Rayark Games [Rhythm] * Destiny of Spirits (F2P) -- Q Entertainment, Japan Studio [Strategy, Social] * Don't Starve -- Klei Entertainment [Action-adventure sandbox] * Frozen Synapse Prime -- Double Eleven [Turn-based tactics] * Hotline Miami -- Dennaton Games [2D top-down action] * Nidhogg -- Messhof [Fighting] * Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath -- Just Add Water [Action-Adventure] * Phantom Breaker: Battle Ground -- 5pb. [2D beat'em up] * Rogue Legacy -- Cellar Door Games [Platformer, Roguelike] * Senran Kagura: Bon Appetit! -- Meteorise, Marvelous, XSEED [Cooking/Rhythm] * Spelunky -- Derek Yu [Action Adventure] * Super Stardust Delta / Resogun -- Housemarque [Shmup] * Terraria -- Re-Logic, Engine Software [Action-adventure] * The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth -- Nicalis [Action-Adventure] * TxK -- Llamasoft [Shooting] * Velocity Ultra / Velocity 2x -- FuturLab [Platformer, Shmup]
Released in Japan
Import friendly * Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax -- French-Bread, Ecole, Sega [Fighting] * Earth Defense Force V2 -- D3 Publisher [TPS, Cooperative] * Gundam Breaker 2 -- Bandai Namco [Mecha] * Gundam Seed Battle Destiny -- Artdink [Mech Sim] * j-Stars Victory Vs -- Namco Bandai [Team Battle Action] * Madoka: The Battle Pentagram -- Artdink, Bandai Namco [3D Beat'em up] * Shin Gundam Musou -- Omega Force, Namco [3D beat'em up] * Super Robot Wars Z3 -- Namco Bandai [SRPG]
Require JP knowledge * Ar Nosurge+ -- Gust [RPG] * Corpse Party: Blood Drive -- Team GrisGris, 5pb. [Adventure, Horror] * Danganronpa: Another Episode -- Spike Chunsoft [Shooter?] * Dungeon Travelers 2 -- Sting [Dungeon RPG] * Legend of Heroes series -- Falcom [RPG] * Phantasy Star Nova -- Tri-Ace, Sega [Action, Cooperative] * Phantasy Star Online 2 -- Sega [MMO, Action] * Photo Kano Kiss -- Enterbrain [Dating Sim] * Surge Concerto: Ciel Nosurge -- Gust [Real Time Simulation] * Tales of Innocence R -- Seventh Chord, Namco [ARPG]
Upcoming English Releases * Atelier Ayesha+ (PSN) -- Gust, Koei Tecmo [RPG] * Broforce (PSN) -- Free Lives [Sidescroller Shooter] * Criminal Girls: Invite Only -- Nippon Ichi, NISA [RPG] * Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton (PSN) -- 3D Realms, Abstraction Games [FPS] * Grim Fandago Remastered (PSN) -- Double Fine Productions [Adventure] * Helldivers (PSN) -- Arrowhead Game Studios [Coop Shooter] * Hotline Miami 2 (PSN) -- Dennaton Games [2D top-dom action] * htoL #NiQ: The Firefly Diary -- Nippon Ichi, NISA [Puzzle] * Hyper Light Drifter (PSN) -- Heart Machine [Action RPG] * Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2 -- Compile Heart, IFI [RPG] * Hyperdimension Neptunia U -- Compile Heart, Tamsoft, IFI [3D beat'em up] * Hyperdevotion Noire -- Compile Heart, Sting, IFI [SRPG] * La Mulana EX (PSN) -- Azterism, Nigoro [Action-Adventure Sidescroller] * Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC (PSP) -- Falcom, XSEED [RPG] * Moero Chronicle (Asia) -- Compile Heart [Dungeon RPG] * Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy -- Experience Inc [Dungeon RPG] * Papers, Please (PSN) -- Lucas Pope [Puzzle, Simulation] * Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines -- SCEJ [RPG] * Persona 4: Dancing All Night -- Dingo [Rhythm] * Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (PSN) -- Capcom [Horror, TPS] * Risk of Rain (PSN) -- Hopoo Games [Platformer, Roguelike] * Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (PSN) -- Wayforward [Action-Adventure Sidescroller] * Skullgirls Encore (PSN) -- Lab Zero [Fighting] * Steins;Gate -- 5pb., Nitroplus, PQube [Visual Novel] * Sword Art Online: Last Song (Asia) -- Bandai Namco [ARPG] * Tales from the Borderlands -- Telltale Games [Adventure] * Titan Souls (PSN) -- Acid Nerve [Top down Action] * Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters -- Toybox, Arc System Works, Aksys [VN, RPG] * Toukiden Kiwami -- Omega Force (Koei) [Hunting, Cooperative] * VA-11 HALL-A (PSN) -- Sukeban [Visual Novel, Adventure]
Upcoming Japan releases (English localization not confirmed) * 3rd SRW Z Tengoku Hen -- Bandai Namco [SRPG] * Atelier Escha & Logy + -- Gust, Koei Tecmo [RPG] * Bokosuka Girls -- Tatsunoko Productions [3D Beat 'em up] * Deception IV: Another Princess -- Koei Tecmo [Strategy RPG] * Deemo -- Rayark Inc [Piano Music] * Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth -- Namco Bandai [RPG] * Dungeon Travelers 2-2 -- Sting [Dungeon RPG] * God Eater 2: Rage Burst -- Bandai Namco [Action, Cooperative] * IA/VT Colorful -- Marvelous AQL ["sound catching" rhythm action] * Kantai Collection Kai -- Kadokawa Games [Strategy, Fleet Raising] * Luminous Arc Infinity -- Marvelous AQL [RPG] * Mahouka: Out of Order -- Witch Craft, Bandai Namco [3D Fighting] * Makai Shin Trillon -- Compile Heart [SRPG] * next Ys -- Nihon Falcom [ARPG] * One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 -- Koei Tecmo, Bandai Namco [Beat'em Up] * Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy -- Experience Inc [Dungeon RPG] * Ronin of the Fleeting Life -- Spyke Chunsoft [Action Adventure] * SaGa 2015 -- Square Enix [RPG] * Samurai Warriors 4-II -- Omega Force (Koei) [Hack and Slash] * Senran Kagura: Estival Versus -- Marvelous AQL [3D Beat 'em up] * Stranger of Sword City -- Experience Inc [Dungeon RPG] * World Trigger: Borderless Mission -- Bandai Namco [Team cooperation and battle action] * Yuki Yuna wa Yusha: Memory of the Forest -- Furyu [Action, Adventure] * Xblaze Lost: Memories -- Arc System Works [Adventure, Visual Novel]