Rarest PS4 Games (& How Much They’re Worth)

Key Takeaways

• Many rare PS4 games are expensive due to limited physical runs from independent publishers.
• PS4 classics like Night Trap are now collectible and can fetch high prices, especially in complete condition.
• Special editions like The Messenger and Gryphon Knight Epic are among the hardest-to-find and priciest PS4 games available.

The PS4 had an incredible run over the years, and now that the PS5 is in full swing, the Playstation 4 can sit back and relax and reflect on things. Gamers can now get most PS4 games for some super cheap prices. However, there are a number of rarer PS4 games which can prove incredibly difficult to obtain. Particularly thanks to their staggering price tags.

From limited and collector’s editions, to independent publishers and outlets publishing limited physical runs of niche indie titles, the PS4 rare game library is vast and extensive. It’s worth mentioning here that there are many rare PS4 games exclusive to Japan, but these entries are mostly Western releases.

Updated on December 11, 2024 by David Heath: Some would think the PS4 would’ve been left behind already, as it’s now over 10 years old. Most consoles don’t tend to get new releases by the time they reach that age. Not officially anyway. Yet Sony’s black, slanted box is still getting fresh releases, like the Marvel Vs Capcom Fighting Collection, Sonic X Shadow Generations, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. By comparison, the PS5’s library is pretty dry and lacks exclusives.

Though in that decade, plenty of games in the PS4’s library have either fallen into obscurity, or vanished altogether. Which is why this list has been updated with more hard-to-find (and harder-to-afford) games, along with updated prices for the old entries. There’s always the chance some pricey games can become more affordable, though they can also climb higher in price. All data comes from PriceCharting, except where listed.

19 Night Trap Collector’s Edition

From Upsetting Parents to Upsetting Grandparents

Limited Run Games are perhaps the most popular independent publisher of limited physical release, though they’re not without their controversies. On top of keeping people waiting for their orders, and cheaping out on production, they re-released the notorious Night Trap, an FMV horror game that, alongside Mortal Kombat, caused a stink over violent video games strong enough to produce the ESRB.

Game is a loose term as Night Trap is more of an interactive movie, originally released back in 1992. The FMV game tasks players with watching over a handful of girls having a sleepover in a definitely-not-creepy old house which is definitely not infested with vampires or anything. Players control the cameras and activate traps to stop the monsters. Most didn’t click with its gameplay, but others did, hence why this 2017 remaster, be it the regular or Collector’s Edition, has risen to match the price of its older, rarer 32X port.

18 Strafe

An Old Game for a Modern Price

Strafe was Special Reserve Games’ first physical PS4 release, which is the main reason it’s held a lot of its value. Special Reserve are like many other independent publishers who publish limited physical runs of certain games, and they made Strafe as a homage to classic shooters like Doom and Quake with added rogue-like elements.

It’s a fun and exciting title but gamers looking to purchase a physical copy will have to splash out nearly $60 for a boxed copy. That’s not so bad now compared to before. Its CIB and new copies used to be more expensive than its Limited Run re-release equivalents. Now they’re cheaper, but only by a touch, with new original Strafe copies going for approximately $58, which is $13 cheaper than the LR version. Whether it’ll stay that way is another.

17 Saturday Morning RPG

Remember When Games Cost $50?

Saturday Morning RPG is another physical release courtesy of Limited Run games, based on the 2012 mobile game by Mighty Rabbit Studios. Players take command of a high schooler called Marty, who gains magical powers to fight monsters of the HOOD. It’s a fun RPG game intended to resemble Saturday morning cartoons and shows, as it’s got an old school vibe like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mighty Max.

The price isn’t that bad on its own in a vacuum. Though when people consider it’s an 8-year-old port of a 12-yr-old game, and its physical copies were limited to 1,980 copies, it’s pretty significant. In fact, as of this writing, this is the cheapest the game has been across the board, as new copies were going for nearly $140 back around 2017. Now new copies have dropped even further to $44, cheaper than some loose or CIB copies.

16 Rez Infinite Eco-Forward Edition

Rez Infiniteis a trippy, psychedelic, music rail shooter and a remaster of the original Rez from the Dreamcast and PS2. This time, alongside updated visuals and exclusive levels, it came with a VR mode for the Playstation VR, which succeeded in somehow making its abstract rhythm-based shooting an even more surreal experience. It was iam8bit’s first physical release as a publisher, adding to its value.

The regular game ranged between $65-85 from loose to new, though the real jewel in the crown is the Eco-Forward edition. iam8bit originally sold it for $41.99, which got buyers the game, a poster, and a slipcase with unique art from Cory Schmitz. But it’s since sold out because they only made 5,000 copies. Currently, players will need $100 minimum to get these extras, and they’re only going to make it rise in price over time.

15 Blue Reflection (JP)

A Japanese RPG That’s Easier to Find in the West

Blue Reflection is a 2017 JRPG which draws many similarities to Persona 5. Players take the role of a ballet dancer, Hinako Shirai, and follow her daily activities, like going to school, spending time with friends and general life activities. Oh, and she also visits other worlds where she and her friends battle monsters in classic turn-based RPG combat. You know, day-to-day stuff.

American copies go for reasonable prices, from about $40-50, and European copies are about $20 dearer, being in the $60-$70 range (excluding postage & packaging). Weirdly, the base PS4 game is harder to find in Japan, its country of origin, as getting it complete with the manual is worth just over $100. That’s about as much as its sequel’s Premium Collector’s Box for the Nintendo Switch. It’s actually cheaper to get its PS Vita port at $33.52 complete. It’s all in Japanese though, so they’d have to be fluent to understand what’s going on.

14 The Messenger

Bringing an Unwelcome Message in Its Pricetag

In The Messenger, a village of ninjas is saved from demons by a hero from the West, as they predicted in their prophecy. He produces a scroll, which he gives to a ninja, dubbing him ‘the Messenger’ and ordering him to deliver it to the top of a mountain. From there, it becomes an action-platformer involving time-travel, curses, and a twisting narrative of causality and consequences.

It’s also another game best bought digitally as, though it’s $20, that’s still about 12 and a bit times cheaper than its physical copies. Surprisingly, it’s the game’s first batch of physical releases that cost the most, at $142.50 complete. Limited Run published their own physical run of the game, which is a touch cheaper at $118 complete. That’s still an increase on its original $34.99 RRP, but that still makes it a more preferable option for physical media collectors.

13 Gryphon Knight Epic

A Tall Price for a Little Game

Developed by Cyber Rhino Studios, Gryphon Knight Epic is a 2015 side-scrolling shooter where players control a knight flying a large gryphon across the skies. It’s a fun shooter and features some awesome enemy designs and gorgeous pixel art visuals. Though, despite the seemingly simple gameplay mechanics, it’s become one of the rarest PS4 games to track down.

This is because Strictly Limited Games lived up to their name by only producing 999 copies back in 2017, and only in PAL territories. Due to the low number of copies, complete physical editions of Gryphon Knight Epic can sell for $156 at best, with some going as high as $300. Not bad for a little indie side-scroller. Anyone who just wants to play it instead of collecting it would have to look for the much cheaper Switch port at $40.35 CIB.

12 The Legend of Sword & Fairy 6

AKA Chinese Paladin 6

What Dragon Quest is to Japan, and Final Fantasy is to the West, The Legend of Sword & Fairy is to China and Taiwan. Created by Taiwanese developer Softstar, they’ve been offering Asian players wuxia-themed adventures since 1995. Though it took 23 years for the series to make it to the West when The Legend of Sword & Fairy 6 reached North America.

It caught on well enough for the 7th game to get localized as well, though not enough to get a broad physical release. Its limited run meant it’s worth a fairly pretty penny at $180 complete, or just over $150 for the disc alone. Sealed copies skyrocketed up from $170 to $295 too. Fans who have gotten into Chinese fantasy via games like Black Myth: Wukong may want to stick to the $14.99 digital copy unless they want to build up their PS4 collection.

11 Godzilla

As Radioactive as the King of the Monsters Himself

Despite being a really terrible game, the 2014 Godzilla game (no relation to the Monsterverse movie) now goes for surprisingly high prices, with most listings exceeding the $200 price mark. On its Western release, it was panned by critics, gamers, and Godzilla fans alike thanks to its repetitive gameplay, terrible graphics and really awful voice acting. It was ultimately considered one of the worst games of that year.

It’s puzzling that such an unpopular game managed to rise in price over the years. The best explanation is that not many people actually bought it in the first place, producing a low-enough supply for the few demanding it. European prices aren’t any better, with loose PAL copies going for $158, and new copies being $100 more expensive at $426. If only people in 2014 knew how valuable this less-than-ideal kaiju game would become.

10 Final Fantasy 1-6 Pixel Remaster Collection

How to Make a Pricey Collection Even More Expensive

Getting the Final Fantasy 1-6 Pixel Remaster Collection is expensive enough digitally, with most online storefronts offering all 6 retweaks of the classic games for $74.99. Then Square-Enix decided to do a limited run of physical copies. Loose and New copies have risen to $726.50 and $1,149 respectively, while complete, boxed copies surprisingly went down to just slightly above the loose price. Maybe Square-Enix’s second run of physical copies helped ease that.

If so, it’s had a bigger effect in PAL regions, where new copies are now $468. That significantly cheaper than the $802 its complete boxes are going for, and under half the price of its US equivalents. Their Anniversary editions are also cheaper, at $599 complete compared to $780 in North America. The original Final Fantasy games are iconic, but they’re still remasters of NES and SNES games. It might be easier to just play older ports of the games, if not their originals.

9 Star Ocean: The Divine Force Limited Edition (JP)

Offering a Hard Choice to Make

The original Star Ocean game was one of the first games to have the player’s choices affect its story. Whether they learned more about one party member or another, gained their affection or enmity, etc, affected which ending the player got. However, its subsequent games got an erratic reception. The sequel, The Second Story, is considered a cult classic. Its PS2 debut, Til the End of Time, wasn’t, and it dropped to more middling scores from there.

Star Ocean: The Divine Force didn’t do much to swing things back in the series’ favor either. But it stands out now as its Limited Edition is currently the most expensive Japanese PS4 title. It came in a big black box, containing the game, DLC codes, a 5-disc collection of music tracks from the series, an 80-page artbook, a poster-come-calendar, keychains, and art cards. The game even has the NA English translation and voice acting as options, so Anglophones can get their hands on it if they have a spare $812 for a complete box.

8 Tamashii

A Platformer With Some Spirit

A weird, creepy, brooding game, Tamashii is a puzzle-platformer where its lead is drawn into a mysterious temple by the eldritch abomination hiding within it. If they don’t avoid its traps, hazards and enemies, they’ll end up as another one of the entity’s victims. It’s a good choice for fans of Junji Ito and weird horror, and its digital edition can be found for fair prices on Steam and online stories.

Its physical edition is another story. Produced in limited amounts by Limited Rare Games (not to be confused with Limited Run), it was released for Halloween 2020, and has since sold out. The only way to track it down is through second-hand copies, where its loose copies have dropped significantly to $628. Sealed copies have gone for slightly cheaper prices than its complete-but-opened equivalents, going for $20 less at $879. That’s not exactly loose change, but it’s a big drop from its peak in April 2022, when it cost $2,100 for new copies.

7 1,001 Spikes

As Priceless as Indiana Jones’ Treasures

Best known as the publishers of Cave Story, VVVVVV, and The Binding of Isaac‘s re-releases, Nicalis worked with 8bit Fanatics to produce 1,001 Spikes. It’s an old-school sidescrolling puzzle-platformer where Aban Hawkins travels the world, from the Antarctic tundra to the South American jungles, in search of his missing father Jim, and the treasure he was seeking behind the Golden Door of Poko-Mum.

Its digital versions can be found for much more affordable prices. However, Nicalis also released a few physical copies as a special promotion (with a few courtesy copies ending up online in advance of its original release date), which are now extremely hard to find. At best, players will need a spare $1,000 for a complete copy, and $900 for a loose one, which is a lot just to get a $15 Steam game on a PS4 disc.

6 Poop Slinger

As Fun as It Sounds

Poop Slinger is exactly what its title suggests. It’s a game where players throw poop at people for points. The more poop slung, the more modes, customizable options and more get unlocked. It can be picked up digitally for $4.99, and even then it’s overpriced as it’s a pretty terrible game. But Limited Rare Games thought it would be hilarious to make 84 physical copies of the game and sell them on their website.

As such, it’s become the most expensive PS4 game to track down, with loose discs going for $850, and sealed copies going for $2,307. Some copies have even retailed on eBay for $4,000 or even $17,000. All for a cheap gag game about throwing feces. People can only hope humanity reaches these heights once again someday.

5 PS4 Console With P.T. Demo

Perhaps The Most Expensive Demo in History

This one is different because it’s not a physical game. Originally announced at Gamescom 2014, fans could download a demo for P.T. directly from the PlayStation Store. Initially shown as a mysterious new horror game, fans who completed it discovered it was a playable teaser (get it? P.T?) for Silent Hills, a new entry in Konami’s iconic horror franchise by Metal Gear maestro Hideo Kojima, Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro, and featuring The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus.

But Kojima’s sudden ousting from Konami led to the project getting canceled, Del Toro and Reedus moving on to Death Stranding, and to P.Tgetting pulled from the store. Fans either had to go elsewhere for similar shocks to the demo, or they had to buy a PS4 with the demo preinstalled on it. Not until its data can somehow be pulled out and put on the net, which is unlikely. Considering the cheapest P.T PS4s are now in the $900 range, and many others got for $1,000+, it’s a high investment for a brief snippet of what could’ve been a great game.

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3 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series Signature Pack

Buyers Will Remember This Price

Telltale lost a lot of goodwill with people following their closure for bankruptcy protection. They’re technically still around today, albeit after letting go of a lot of their workforce. Skybound Games helped keep on a few of their workers to finish off their famous adaptations of The Walking Dead videogames, including making its Definitive Series boxset. Now players could see how Clementine’s story played out from beginning to end, with a few digital touch-ups, and extra trinkets like Behind the Scenes features, digital music collection, 3D model viewer and more.

It also had 3 different Collector’s Editions, with the rarest one being the Signature Pack. It came with everything from the regular Protector Pack (shirt, pins, dolls, etc), the Guardian pack (stamped signatures from the dev team, art print by Eric Zawadzki), with exclusives like a signature stamped box and signed art print. Sadly, the planned Clementine and Lee diorama was canceled, but might have driven the price up more. Only 100 Signature Pack units were made, and have since quadrupled in price from their $250 RRP to $1,000 complete.

2 Dark Souls 3 Prestige Edition

Where Paychecks Prepare to Die

Dark Souls 3 was considered a fitting swansong for the series, as the player’s unkindled character saught to prevent the apocalypse, likely dying multiple times in the process. It had a few special edition releases, like the Day One edition, etc. The priciest was the Prestige Edition, as it was part of a triple-pronged release of exclusive UK editions with GAME’s Apocalypse Edition, and the general Collector’s Edition.

Formerly only available via Amazon UK, the Prestige Edition included a Lord of Cinder resin figure, a Red Knight resin figure, an art book, soundtrack CDs, cloth map, some iron-on patches, and a display case. It originally went for £300 in 2016 ($514 today). Now it’s worth $2,500 complete, or £141.74 ($181.05) if owners fancied cashing it in on Gex.co.uk. One can assume/hope that’s just for the game and not all the extras.

1 Reydllom: Exorcized Edition

No Priest Can Save People From This Price

In the past decade, creepypastas about cursed video games went from being a fun diversion to a cliché. Nonetheless, Limited Rare Games decided to go with that premise by saying Reydllom was found in a PS4 belonging to a deceased estate. Never mind that it used to be a PS Store exclusive before then. It’s a survival horror where players try to escape the clutches of an evil witch.

LRG sold regular copies of the game for $30, and they can now be found on the second-hand market for around $50-60. However, some lucky buyers would get one of their 60 ‘exorcized’ editions, which came with a different cover, and would be sealed in plastic for sale. Since they were ‘exorcized by the FBI’s paranormal games division’, that makes them worth $10,000, or $13,580 for new copies. It’s since become the most expensive PS4 game, beating their prior run with Poop Slinger, yet it also feels like a joke, and it’s on the customer if they buy it.