Best PS5 & PS4 Games — Page 4
Expert-reviewed PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games, scored out of 10.
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Top rated on PlayStation
- 01God of War (2018)Santa Monica Studio's God of War is a reboot that re-evaluates its protagonist and its genre, delivering an emotionally…9.7Outstanding
- 02Persona 5 RoyalPersona 5 Royal refines an already exceptional JRPG to an unassailable standard, blending deep social simulation with s…9.7Outstanding
- 03UndertaleUndertale is a foundational critique of the RPG genre itself, one that weaponizes player choice to deliver an unforgett…9.7Outstanding
Lone Survivor
Action gameA flashlight, a cassette hiss, and a bag of rotten meat do more work here than most big-budget horror manages with a photogrammetry rig. It's an unset...Good7.6Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Action gameRespawn built a mechanically rich action game and then shipped it on PC in a state that damaged its reputation for two years. The design now justifies...Good7.1Beyond Good & Evil – 20th Anniversary Edition
Action gameFor $19.99, Ubisoft has given a long-overlooked action-adventure a careful visual and audio polish plus quality-of-life fixes that matter more than th...Good7.1Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Ashen
Action gameAshen's passive drop-in co-op is the best structural idea the souls-like genre has produced in a decade, but mushy combat, a hostile camera, and a tec...Mixed6.0Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
Action gameHard to recommend for most people: a Suikoden successor with a genuinely brilliant recruitment loop, undermined by unskippable battle animations, heav...Mixed6.3Going Under
Action gameAggro Crab's satirical roguelite lands its jokes harder than its punches — a sharp, genuinely funny skewering of startup culture whose improvised comb...Good7.3Killer Frequency
Adventure gameA horror game built around a microphone instead of a shotgun, Killer Frequency's gimmick — talking terrified strangers through a slasher's night while...Good7.2
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Action gameBroken Rules built an entire game around one verb — swinging — and the verb works; almost everything around it is thinner. Gibbon's hour-long campaign...Mixed6.8BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
Adventure gameTHE BROTHERHOOD built one of the most striking science-fiction worlds of the decade and then buried the path through it under fetch quests and pixel-h...Mixed6.4GALAK-Z: The Dimensional
Action gameGALAK-Z's inertial flight model remains one of the best 2D space combat has seen, but Rogue Mode's permadeath and a shallow procedural generator make ...Mixed6.9Mad Rat Dead
Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.Mad Rat Dead has one of the sharpest ideas in modern rhythm design — a platformer where the beat is your health bar — and then runs out of things to...Mixed6.6Path of Exile 2
Action gamePath of Exile 2 is the most mechanically ambitious action RPG on the market, wrapped in a difficulty and death-penalty structure that will eject a lar...Good7.5Golf With Your Friends
Sports gameBy throwing out mini golf's most sacred rule — take turns — Blacklight Interactive built one of the funniest party-game concepts on Steam, then left i...Mixed6.7Souldiers
Action gameSouldiers is a gorgeous, overstuffed metroidvania undermined by difficulty spikes, repetitive dungeons, and a runtime that sprawls past its ideas. Agg...Mixed6.0Age of Mythology: Retold
Strategy gameRetold rebuilds the engine without sanding down the personality — a 22-year-old RTS given modern hands and eyes while keeping the lightning bolts, Cyc...Good7.6Final Fantasy XVI
Action gameSquare Enix hired a Devil May Cry combat lead and pointed him at a Game of Thrones rewrite of Final Fantasy, and the result is a thrilling action ...Good7.2Them's Fightin' Herds
Action gameA serious 2D fighter with a thorough teaching suite and dependable rollback netcode, wrapped in a cartoon barnyard that hides its depth. The small ros...Good7.1Hogwarts Legacy
Action gameAvalanche Software built the most convincing videogame recreation of a fictional place in years, then padded it out with busywork and hung a forgettab...Good7.2Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Action gameCook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! is a demanding, content-heavy action game priced like an indie title — a hundred-hour typing test disguised as a restauran...Good7.7Dragon Quest Builders 2
Action gameSquare Enix took the one thing Minecraft never had — a reason to build — and wrapped a lengthy, genuinely good RPG around it. The opening hours will t...Good7.6Hand of Fate 2
Action gameHand of Fate 2 pairs a genuinely clever card-table structure and a superbly written Dealer with real-time combat that never earns the screen time it d...Good7.3Underhero
Adventure gameUnderhero has one genuinely clever structural idea — turn-based combat with the turns ripped out — and some of the sharpest comic writing in the indie...Mixed6.9Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Adventure gameAtlus took a mechanically sharp, narratively hollow JRPG and gave it the story it always deserved, plus a proper PC port. Newcomers should buy it with...Great8.2
