The Ouya is an Android-based microconsole, famous for being financed by a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign.
It became quite controversial, however, for a flawed launch: many backers did not receive their units in advance, early controllers had issues with lag (since patched) and buttons getting stuck (requires a very simple hardware mod), poor wireless performance (the fix can be a setting on your router), and some games had performance issues for not being properly optimized for the Tegra 3 chip.
On the other hand, as it's dead-easy to port from Android, it quickly amassed a library of hundred of titles — mostly mobile games, but also emulators for tons of classic systems (up to PS1/N64 run well) and media players. Also, you can easily install most Android apps as well, without modding. For a $99 machine, it was not a bad deal.
The list
| Box Art | Title | Genre | Description |
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Another World | Action-adventure | An Amiga classic, one of the most brutally hardcore games ever. An accident teleports a scientist to a world where everything is out to kill him. |
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Beast Boxing Turbo | Fighting | It's like Punch-Out!, but with monsters. |
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Chronoblade | Beat 'em up | A brawler with RPG elements, from the creator of Lemmings and GTA. |
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Final Fantasy III | RPG | Updated remake of the Famicom classic (not to be mistaken for the SNES game that is actually Final Fantasy VI). |
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Flashout 3D | Racing | Futuristic racing/shooting a la Wipeout. |
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Giana Sisters | Platformer | A damn good old school platformer, sequel to a classic European rule-63'ed Mario clone. |
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Maldita Castilla | Platformer | Spanish homage to the Ghosts 'n Goblins series. So deliciously old-school, you could easily believe it's a late 1980s arcade under emulation (and the music was actually produced by emulating the YM2203 sound chip, which many arcade boards used back then). |
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Order & Chaos Online | MMORPG | Gameloft's generic WoW. Quite impressive for the system. |
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Ravensword Shadowlands | Action-RPG | Very reminescent of Elder Scrolls and Fable. |
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Saturday Morning RPG | RPG | A comedy/nostalgia RPG inspired by 1980s cartoons and pop culture, with music by Vince DiCola (Transformers, Rocky IV). |
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Shadowgun | TPS | A very badass sci-fi third person shooter. |
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Sine Mora | Shooter | Beautiful shmup with time-manipulation elements and character designs bound to please the furfags. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 | Platformer | Does this even need much of a description? It's Sonic, it's 2D, it's good. Both episodes are available, as well as Sonic CD. |
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Towerfall | Platformer | You and 3 other archers shoot arrows at each other in this fast paced multiplayer platformer, also has a 1-2 player campaign, tons of fun. |
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Vendetta Online | MMORPG | A mix of online RPG and space simulator. Similar to EVE, but more streamlined and action-oriented. |