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
Torment: Tides of Numenera
Adventure gameinXile built one of the best-written RPGs of its era, then bolted on a combat system that undermines it. If you read games the way you read novels, th...Good7.0Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets
Action gameA charming three-button rhythm game with a strong original soundtrack and a joke-a-minute script that runs out of road right when it gets going. Worth...Good7.0The Riftbreaker
Action gameEXOR Studios welded a twin-stick shooter to a logistics sim and a tower defense game, and against all odds the seams mostly hold. The Riftbreaker's ca...Good7.6Songs of Silence
Adventure gameChimera Entertainment's Songs of Silence pairs genuinely arresting Art Nouveau art and a Hitoshi Sakimoto score with one legitimately fresh combat i...Mixed6.3Cosmic Star Heroine
RPG gameCosmic Star Heroine is what happens when veteran genre nerds strip the 16-bit RPG down to its best ideas and throw out much of the rest. The combat sy...Good7.2Timespinner
Action gameTimespinner is a faithful Symphony of the Night homage with a genuinely affecting story and a time-stop mechanic with real teeth — but it's short, eas...Mixed6.5No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Adventure gameSomi's two-to-three-hour testimony puzzle is one of the most honest detective games in years — it hands you 54 scrambled fragments of a cold case and ...Great8.5Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3
Blazing Chrome
Action gameJoyMasher didn't just imitate Contra III — it reverse-engineered why that game felt so good and rebuilt the machine with modern precision. The short r...Good7.6Cyber Shadow
Action gameCyber Shadow is a carefully built NES-style ninja platformer from a solo developer, with superb sprite work and a sharp difficulty curve — and a check...Good7.2Blue Fire
Action gameBlue Fire's movement system is genuinely special, but a punishing camera, shallow combat, and a rough opening make it hard to recommend to most people...Mixed6.4Absolver
Action gameAbsolver contains one of the most original combat systems ever shipped in a video game — a martial-arts move-set builder disguised as an action RPG — ...Mixed6.5Lost in Random
Action gameLost in Random's dice-gated card combat is one of the more inventive systems of its generation, but the game runs out of enemy variety and deck depth ...Mixed6.4Trüberbrook
Adventure gameTrüberbrook is the best-looking point-and-click adventure of the last decade and one of the least satisfying — a ten-hour walk through hand-built mini...Mixed6.1Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Nidhogg 2
Action gameMesshof built a sharper, deeper duel than the 2014 original — then dressed it in a fleshy hand-drawn grotesquerie that half its audience actively rese...Mixed6.5Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Action gameA fan project that outgrew its own fandom, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom understands its ancestor well enough to argue with it — a handsome, mech...Good7.8Tin Hearts
Adventure gameRogue Sun has built one of the most tactile, gorgeously imagined puzzle boxes in years — a Victorian workshop where you engineer the path instead of c...Mixed6.8Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Adventure gameA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...Good7.3Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Olija
Action gameSkeleton Crew Studio's grimy, striking action-platformer builds one of the best traversal mechanics in recent memory and has the discipline to quit be...Good7.2Ctrl Alt Ego
Action gameCtrl Alt Ego is one of the purest expressions of immersive-sim design philosophy since Prey (2017), built by essentially one person and wearing its sh...Great8.4Othercide
Strategy gameOthercide fuses a genuinely inventive initiative system with monochrome art direction so confident it borders on arrogant — then buries both under a r...Good7.1Moonscars
Action gameMoonscars has some of the best-looking swordplay in the 2D souls-like field and a death system that actually means something — but a hard-to-parse map...Mixed6.4
